iOS 14 text notification issues

I have been having the same issues as well for the past month or so! Very frustrating! Sound notifications and vibrations are not happening on all text messages. It will randomly work, then other times it will not. I have tried all the suggestions to no avail. Please fix this Apple!

I’ve been having problems since day one of iOS 14. It was also they same day I got my 12 pro, so I thought it was the phone but the problem still persists. I have 2 MacBooks, an iPad, and iPhone 11, an iPhone 12pro, and Apple Watch, and i have to clear sms & MMS messages on each device. Sometimes my phone will ding, sometimes the watch, most times neither. This has been a sad state of affairs for weeks.

I noticed this issue sometime after upgrading my iPhone 7 to Ver 14. No notifications for messages or emails. I tried everything. My Mac is not the problem because I rarely use it. When not in use, it is off. So with a iPhone 7, and a Watch 4, nothing on either device. I used to get notifications on both. When someone calls me it rings both devices. But nothing for messages or emails. I gave up, thinking the iPhone 7 was broke some how.

So I bought a iPhone 12 brand new, thinking that would fix the problem. It did not, same problem. Complained to Apple, then I saw this thread. One user said, "turn off Bluetooth", did that, and lo and behold, I get notifications on the phone. Turn Bluetooth back on and no notifications. Turn it back off and notifications work. That is unacceptable, Watch needs to be paired with the phone so need Bluetooth. Saw another post that stated, goto the watch app on your phone, tap "Notifications" then scroll down to "Messages" tap that, then "Custom" then "Notifications Off" and that worked. The phone gets notifications but not the watch. Check it out if you can live without notifications on your watch.

I’m not receiving any alert sound, vibration, banner notification, or red banner alert near the message app and then I open the messages and see I have 50 messages?!? This is impacting my work and family life and the update needs to be addressed

Same for me. Incredibly frustrating that the main/safe method of contact nowadays (text) is compromised by a ‘bug’ in the iOS? Do better apple. This is simple— my mom’s 8s works better than my 11 pro..... . Glad I upgraded. FIX IT.

Same issue as the rest. Updated to ios 14 and subsequent updates and now I don’t get text notifications. I’ve checked my notification, sound, and do not disturb settings a million times. This is extremely frustrating because it has been going on for about 2 months now for me (and longer for others). It’s unbelievable Apple has not corrected this bug yet.

I often get text message notifications (number icon) on both iPhone and Mac, but then when I open Messages, there is no text message shown.

Happens a lot on the Mac, but on the iPhone not as often.

If I close Messages and reopen, it will show the message.

I have latest iOS and Catalina.

It’s actually insane that this is STILL a problem. I miss texts every day because of this problem. No notification, not even a little red “1” to tell me something is unread. Nothing.

Between this and Face ID that still won’t work for me 9 months later, I’m thinking this will be my last iPhone.

I have the same problem for the last couple of months, but it comes and goes. I won’t receive any text notifications at all (regardless of wether that’s on the lock screen or while I’m using my phone). Some days I’ll receive one or two notifications but that’s it. When I send a message it also says “read” immediately even though it isn’t. It’s really annoying that I never actually know when I have new texts. Apple NEEDS to fix this ASAP.

Having the same problem on my iPhone 8 Plus. I do get message notifications when the phone is unlocked, but when the phone is locked, the message silently appears on the lock screen. My Apple Watch never gets any sort of notification. Everything was fine up to 14. Just installed the 14 beta...still the same. Since I need notifications for work, will probably go back to old iPhone 6 running iOS 12.

Tom

Turning off Apple Watch Notifications appears to have fixed it for now. This may not be the same problem since I have always gotten lock screen notifications, just no sound.

It appears to be more than one problem.

Tom

Pretty frustrating that the device cost over 1k dollars and has more issues than any apple device i’ve ever owned. I ask Siri to play my music and she always says “there is a problem with apple music” before playing my songs, my cell phone signal randomly drops and I have to restart the phone, my text tone only works sometimes, my text notifications only appear sometimes, also I have had random freezing of the screen as well.

Simply unacceptable for a device that costs this much, and apple didn’t even have the courtesy to provide a charger plug.

When a msg arrives and a notification comes through, it only sits as a visual msg on the screen with no sound. As soon as I go to unlock the phone, the sound notification goes off. Was this one of the so called "Improvements" with ios14? It seems pointless not having the sound notification when the msg arrives and totally useless getting it when you unlock the phone. Has anyone been able to restore the sound notification as the msg arrives instead of when you unlock the phone?

It’s January and I’ve had this issue since September. I recently updated it to the newest IOS 14.3 and now I’m not getting message notifications OR even phone call notifications. It’s not consistent. Sometimes I’ll receive notifications, and then it just stops throughout the day randomly. This is extremely frustrating.

Jeez everyone! Whats the problem? Didn't you hear? All you have to do is turn the Bluetooth off and everything works again. Just like it did before you bought it. You didn't really need Blur tooth or all of those accessories anyway. Right?