iOS 14 text notification issues

I had the same issue. However, I realised my notification for text messages were changed when I used do not disturb.

Have a look at your settings and notifications.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201925

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

I have resolved these issues. This is what I did:

1. Under Settings, turn airplane mode on, wait and then turn back on.
2. Under Settings, go to Notifications, then down to Messages click on Banners.

Worked for me, hope it works for all of you!

Not sure about everyone else, but I had this same exact issue. This is what I finally figured out. Even though my car was not on, this setting was causing my issue.

• Settings/Notifications/Messages --- I tuned off 'Show in CarPlay'. Once I turned that setting off, my notifications started working again.

Hope this helps and glad to share --- for all the times I have learned from others that have shared.

Check several items to check:

1. Settings -> Messages -> iMessage should be on.
2. Settings -> Phone -> Notifications -> Sounds (default is Off) select a ringtone.
3. Settings -> Phone -> Incoming Calls and Announce Calls should be set.

Still on ios 13.5, and reading this doubtful to upgrade.

However some comments seems confused with the apple watch functionality. You should know that by design, if you have watch notifications activated on the watch, when the iphone is locked notifications will only display on the watch. This has been like this since the watch was introduced.

Questions:

• Those with Apple Watch. Do you get your notifications on the watch when the iphone is locked?
• Those without apple watch. Are you also not receiving notifications?

I have had this issue since 14.2, now on 14.3 and it still persists.

I have noticed a few things.

1. Turning Bluetooth off works, but then that is not a viable solution, especially if you have an Apple Watch or other devices.
2. There seems to be a correlation with text message forwarding to a Mac. I'll sign out of iMessage on my Mac, and it works. I'll sign back in, turn forwarding on, and it works for a while, but then reverts to not waking my Lock Screen. I've found that fully signing out of iMessage on my Mac fixes the problem, but again, that is also not a viable solution.
3. I am not going to reset and set up my phone from new for a third time. I shouldn't have to do that. Apple should fix this.
4. It's basic functionality. They need to get it together.

I've submitted a bug report to Apple, and I suggest everyone should do the same.

My husband had the issue where his IPhone 11 wouldn’t make a sound when he would receive a text message.

This is how I fixed it:

• go into text messages
• click and HOLD one of the messages
• there will be a few options that pop up
• click where it says “show alerts”

This fixed his issue for him. I don’t know if he accidentally clicked “hide alerts” at one point which put a “do not disturb” on that specific contact or if it came with the update but it works now and hopefully this will help others too :)

Apparently the notifications for Messages can be turned "on" and "off" for individual senders. What have worked for me (iOS 14.4) is the following:

• Open "Messages".
• Select the main page (with the title "Messages" on top) on which you see the last messages from your various contacts. I.e. you need to go one step back from any open conversation.
• Click and hold a message from the contact (from which you are not getting alerts) until you see a drop-down menu. [NB: Don't click on the photo / name in the circle but on the message].
• Click on "Show Alerts"

Hope this helps.

Hi

Long story short:

It was the AirPods Pro.

Bye turning off bluetooth and wait 30sec the porblem is gone.

The Long story:

(sorry in advance for my bad English, I have dystlexia and I do not get paid for this troubleshooting job.

so I'm not that interested in fine-tuning my English In this case.)

but I feel I need to share my findings related to this issue

background history:

I just replaced(upgraded) my Apple devices. 

iPhone x -> iPhone 12 Pro max

IPad pro —> iPad air (with Pencile and keyboard)

Apple Watch 3 -> Apple watch 6

And then this issue started.

I have AppleCare+ on every device.

-Have talked to Apple Support over 3 1/2 houre. (Not mutch help there, but nice people)

• Have ereased my Watch 4 times now
• Have ereasd my iPhone 12 pro max 3 times.
• Have changed from eSIM to physical SIM

troubleshooting:

The problem only acured when bluethooth is ON, I suspected it was the Apple watch (it was the last device set up on my iPhone)

I was prepering a return my new Apple watch 6 (cellulary edition) so I ereased it.

(I had a couple new unopen Apple watch 6 (non cellulary) that I was going to give out to family members)

I unpacked a new Apple watch and set it up, after one hour the same «no notification» problem started.

So it is not my watch 6 cellulary.

This/my problem is clearly related to Bluetooth, (when BT is off every ting is fine)

And then I realised I always is having my Airpods Pro connected when this bug i pressent.

When bluetooth is ON my iPad air and my iPhone the problem can be present,

If I turn bluetooth  OFF my iPad Air (and wait 30sec, to battery status is not shown in the iPad) then my iPhone vibrated and souds,

If I put my AirPods in the case 

(and wait 30sec, to battery status is not shown) then I get notification.

I immediately orded a new par of AirPods Pro from Apple (as my troubleshooting has concluded that AirPods Pro was the origin of this problem (in my/this case)

I recived my new set of AirPods Pro to day, I deleted the old from my Bluetooth settings,

open «Find My.app» on my iPhone and removed the old par of AirPods from my Apple ID.

And then I paired my new AirPods Pro.

And the problem is still here!!

I am now returning all my AirPods.

MY SOLUTION (which is not acceptable):

- Turn OFF Bluetooth on every Apple device (iPad, Mac etc..) except my iPhone.

my conclusion:

iOS or iPad OS have a software related bug which was introduced when the AirPods pro was given the ability to switch between Apple devices automatically between Apple devices signed in to the same Apple ID.

I guess the fault lies in iOS or iPad OS (because the bug was present in my «new» AirPods pro that came to day with the old firmware 2D27, it has since been upgraded to 3A283)

therefore my conclusion is that this is an iOS/iPad OS bug related to which Apple device that should notify the user, Airpods, ipad, iphone, watch??

It would have been nice if other jusers who have this problem could try turn OFF bluetooth,

And write if you have/had AirPods connected when this problem acured.

NB: this bug is NOT pressent when I juse my BOSE headphone!

Kenya, I'm not sure if you were asking me since you replied to Scottywwww, but the notification is in the shortcuts. I'm assuming you changed icons, made widgets like I did.

I have over 60 shortcuts I had completed to use the photo for that app. I only needed phone, messages, mail & contacts. Assuming you looked at the link above (the 2nd one), yes it worked. And I changed just those 4 that I wanted to receive notifications. The second part of the shortcut looks like the attached. Within the shortcut go to the three dots in the upper right corner. This is where it says add to Home Screen. Look down and my notification is in orange. And it has "allow messages to use" notifications. Mine was of and I toggled to turn on. Then I rebooted, and it worked.

In case you missed this in the thread I'm posting again. Are you on Android or iPhone? I'm using iPhone 11 Pro. The screen print below is how I made both sound & banners work. See notifications in orange? You click on add to Home Screen & then click on the icon for notifications and add the image you want. It made all the difference for me. None of the red alert #s but I do get a banner at the top of the screen, sound, and in the Notification Center. You may want to do a chat w/ Support or schedule a phone call if you had not added icons or widgets.

I can second having this issue, as well as over 120,000 others who on Twitter liked/commented about their issues with this as well. Attached is a screenshot of said Tweet. Apple needs to get on this bug, and STAT.

Ok, so the apple support people have suggested this to me and so far it is working!!

it may of course be random and stop again but thought I’d share so you can try just in case. So far, all coming through 🤞🤞🤞

UPDATE: It appears when reaching out to Apple in regards to this issue, they are now addressing it as a known bug they are reviewing. There is NO solution to this issue known by Apple at this time, and I have personally tried everything, so I wouldn’t waste your time trying any ‘solutions’ talked about in this thread!