iOS 14 text notification issues

This happened to me because I set my time forward, while my time was set forward I would get messages that the phone thought was on that date. If you set your time back then you some how cause notifications for anyone you texted “in the future” to be turned off. You need to delete a conversation with someone that you texted “in the future” in order to see their texts. This was my fix, hope this helps.

I Phone 11

I am not able to receive text messages while in my car. I have checked my settings and DND is turned off, DND while driving is set to manual. The phone works fine, no problem. In checking my phone, while in the car, even on the phone itself, the ringtone is out. As soon as I turn off the car, the text ringer goes back on.

I just got a brand new iPhone SE today and I am already noticing this issue. I don’t receive notifications for a handful of texts, and especially if someone sends me multiple texts. Frustrating! Should have just kept my 6+ years old phone.

I pre-ordered the iphone12 mini and have had this issue the entire time with this phone. Most one-time texts like verification codes are the main ones I don't get notifications for. Then it's just sporadic and indiscriminate which texts from my contacts don't come in. Never relates to driving, if the person is pinned, etc. My mom also just got an iphone 12 mini and has been having this issue. I had a practice of waiting on any ios updates for these buggy reasons, but this thread was started 7 months ago. This is ridiculous.

Veenxyz wrote:

help anyone please. Im unable to send messages and my girlfriend thinks i dont like her anymore😭

SMS messages are a carrier feature. Start by contacting your carrier. Meanwhile, use the phone function to call your girlfriend.

Since turning off Bluetooth on nearby devices, notifications have begun waking the lock screen again. Working for both SMS and iMessages. Yay! (iPhone 11, iOS 14.4.2)

It's not a fix for everyone, but hopefully that can help a few others with the same problem.

Saw a review from another page,

"For me, it happens when I exit the messages app with a conversation/thread still open. I think when you exit the app, iOS doesn’t recognize it and it’s as if you still have the app on the screen. Thus, no notifications and the ‘read’ status on the other person’s side.

Until a fix, I just make sure to exit a thread before exiting the app."

I have the same issue with multiple message apps, such as WeChat, Messengers, Whatsapp, Instagram, Gmail, and so on. I personally don't use iMessage. I contacted Apple and the specialist said that it is the app's issue, not Apple's. It doesn't make any sense if it happens to multiple apps.

Anyone with a solution please hit me up!!!!

Same here, some apps notify, others don’t. In addition some notifications on the icon don’t even disappear after reading the notified content .

It’s a shame for such a premium product, that apple hasn’t been able to release any fix for this bug until now.

I have tried all the workarounds listed here. I have even done complete wipes and restored from MacBook backups, reset all settings etc.

Problem still persists.

iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 14.5.

The only thing that does work for me is turning Bluetooth off.

I have to make a choice between Bluetooth connectivity and being notified of incoming messages.

The UK COVID exposure app relies on Bluetooth handshakes so this lack of basic functionality could, in theory, endanger lives.

This is a major annoyance to me and many other people, but there are others worse off from reading the entire 92 pages of this thread, ie a blind person who relies on audible alerts, frontline workers with time sensitive issues to deal with etc.

Needless to say, I am very frustrated.

The hours I have put in trying to solve an issue which should not be on our shoulders.

Exactly, I use my phone for my business, it’s extremely frustrating to get a text or message from a client and they think I’m ignoring them for hours on end.

If this affected every single unit then I think we would have seen a solution by this point. Are they even trying to fix it? Who knows.

Same here. As this occurs only on non-apple-apps on my iPhone, German support advised me to contact the app manufacturers. As if I have not done that...

It's really sad that a premium manufacturer, who's premium pricing once guaranteed groundbreaking usability and UX-design, hasn't found a solution to this kind of problem yet. If turning off the BT-adapter is the only solution: sorry guys, that's not even an option if apple "reinstalls" the headphone-jack. ;)

I'm on an iPhone with IOS 14.3 and got into trouble when I upgraded from IOS 13 to IOS 14.

A lot of app didn't show any notifications at all including WhatsApp, Spike,...

None of the suggestions proposed here and elsewhere resolved my problem, the only thing I didn't try was a setup of my phone as a new phone.

What does work for me is deleting apps completely (including data stored on the phone) and installing as a new app. A kind of a different approach on setup as new phone.

I applied this only to apps with a backup option outside the typical iTunes/iCloud backup such as WhatsApp or apps supporting Gmail. After a fresh install all these apps are now happily providing notifications again. Eufy security that sends notifications from camera’s also got fixed this way.

For apps without the backup feature, I’ll wait for Apple to come up with a fix, if ever. This way I have fixed most apps for which I needed notifications most urgently.

Hope this may help some of you.

Your approach of deleting apps makes sense to me. The app I'm having the most trouble with is messages, and I did delete individual messages, but I'm not aware of a way to delete and reinstall the entire messages app. Any thoughts on that?

Just installed 14.5.1 and issue still remains.

Messages and WhatsApp ‘occasionally’ pings when I have the screen on otherwise, it’s silent.

Only time I know I’ve had messages is when my watch vibrates.

That is the correct behavior for notifications if you use an Apple Watch, you will be alerted on your Watch not your iPhone. If you want to hear a sound check to make sure the sound is turned on on your Watch.