iOS 14 text notification issues

Perhaps this will help someone with this notifications issue. My wife was having the same problem after updating to 14.4.2, messages were arriving on her iPad but she was getting the notification. I read somewhere whilst researching it, to check that hide alerts hasn’t been turned on by the update. At the top of a message thread, touch the name of the person the thread is from, then the 'i', and makes sure hide alerts is off. Might not help with everyone's problem but I kept overlooking it.

Thanks, so much, Nigel! I have found that I can usually fix the issue after an update by turning off Bluetooth and turning it back on but continued to miss alerts for one person, who is my most frequent messager. Thanks to you, I found Hide Alerts turned on for that one person. Certainly I had not done that; I wasn't even aware of the feature.

I hope this helps some people. Pay attention: I've been using MacOS since 1994, and iOS since 2009.

THIS CAN'T BE FIXED. For most people, this can't be fixed by turning off Bluetooth, or toggling the 'hide alerts' switch, or anything else.

Please don't waste hours of your life trying to fix this, I've done that for several years so I can report back and tell everyone else not to.

There isn't a solution here in 85 pages of comments, stop reading and go play outside.

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Background info:

Since I've had my iPhone 8, I've been unable to leave Bluetooth on and also get iMessage notifications.

Since iOS 14, I never know if I'm going to get them.

I know what I'm saying - I work with iOS, Android, Ubuntu touch, macOS, Linux, and Windows. I've built several computers, modified GPUs, put custom firmware on routers, cameras, and God knows what else. I can fix a lot of things, but not this.

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Fun tip: I've found that when you've just met someone, it's really easy to get them to believe you didn't get their messages because "Bluetooth was on" or "I don't know what happened." And people you're dating think it's hilarious!

The only solution I have found that works 100% of the time is to turn off Bluetooth on the Apple Watch and leave it off — disconnect the watch from the phone.

You will need to connect Bluetooth back to phone periodically to sync fitness data etc.

VERY FRUSTRATING this has been going on this long and still not fixed by Apple!! I am on all the latest updates for watch and phone.

Or you can turn Bluetooth off on the phone. What I have happily found is that I can turn it back on after a while and still get the notifications. However, I also found, after a tip from this forum, that there was an additional problem. For a couple of the people who message me, the setting "Hide alerts" was turned on (see above Nigel169 for

how to check this). This can recur after an update.

Since the 5S, moved to the 7 and now to the 11 Pro Max, never had any sort of issue or bug. This is the first time I am experiencing a quite irritating and frustrating issue with the iPhone. Although I do understand it may be a quite puzzling issue as this occurs under a variety of circumstances and it differs for nearly everyone, I hope the technicians manage to find a solution to this problem as many are affected daily by it, and for some people it might even affect their job.

FYI: for me this occurred after changing date and time a few times to a Russian time zone.

Issue: Any sort of text message/imsessage does no proc a notification in lock screen, lock screen also doesn't light up despite not showing the notification, no banner while phone is unlocked and in use, badge also not visible on messages icon.

I recently turned off the text message notification on my watch to see if I would then get notifications on my phone. And it worked. At least it’s a temporary solution until Apple gets the bugs worked out.

In my infinite wisdom it never occurred to me that Bluetooth might be turned on on my MBP. Which, incidentally, is always within range of my phone when the text message problem occurs. The Bluetooth icon isn't in the menu bar so I never thought to check. Turns out, it's on! I just turned it off and will report back if it solves the issue on my phone. *facepalm*

This has been an ongoing pain since November. I have no other devices and always have Bluetooth off. When using wired headphones and talking on the phone I receive no audible notifications at all. From reading this thread these past few months I have seen that there is no fix. These workarounds are just that. Some have success, some don’t. We shouldn’t have to work around anything. These phones are very expensive things. The software that operates them are included in the price. Major failure on Apple’s part over this one.

If all your settings are set properly (notifications and sound) then turn your i watch off and test the messaging. If it works then unpair your watch and re-pair it. That is what I had to do after Apple did their upgrades.

I have been fighting this issue since Feb when I got the new iWatch 6. My chat tonight with support told me the watch will notify when the phone is locked and if the watch is off the phone will notify. Did a test and that is what happened. So my question is this happening to anyone with the watch 3? If so I am going to return the watch.

Not exactly a response to this but I updated to IOS 14.4.2 on Thursday and as of Sunday my Bluetooth doesn’t ring in the car when a call comes in. Music stops for the call but doesn’t ring.

IOS 14 has been the worst! Get it your her apple.

Sometimes as the phone is ringing or gps is talking you have to turn up the volume on the phone. It won’t work if you turn the volume up when nothing is broadcasting from your phone. I could here the gps directions in the car but finally realizes while the directions were being announced, I would turn volume up on the phone and then I could hear in the car after that. Hope that helps.

I had the same issue with my iPhone 8. I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with the first Apple technician who checked all the settings but was unable to fix the problem. She passed me on to a second technician. He tried a couple things that failed. He then walked me through a complete reset that worked. Go to settings-General-reset-reset all settings.

Yes, several of us have posted that previously. It seems to be related to bluetooth connections. When you take off the watch (ergo no bluetooth connection to watch) or some say if you turn off bluetooth it also fixes the problem. I think it is related to the watch. Because if you take that off and bluetooth on the phone is on, the problem still goes away for me. I've kind of solved my problem by setting my wife and a couple of other key contacts with emergency bypass turned on for text tone. I do that in contacts. You can do that for ring tone as well. This gets me sound alerts on my watch for texts even if I have silent mode set on my watch. Now she doesn't get mad at me for ignoring her texts :)