iOS 14 text notification issues

I don’t like the idea that I’m not receiving notifications while on the phone. Very frustrating when having a sick kid and miss their text messages etc. Even scarier during a pandemic.

fix this please.

I restored my phone to did it from my phone and restore from itunes and didnt work for me. and yes to get all my backup to my phone again it was a pain it took 8 hrs i was so mad never again. Just going to wait for apple to fix this bug. Also i notice the volumen goes down by itself randomly

Same thing happening to all of our family on the iPhone 11 Pro since downloading IOS 14. Apple pretends like there are no bugs in this IOS but it's loaded with them and their tech support has slipped to Microsoft lows. Such a shame since they used to be SO superior.

I literally spent all day yesterday googling answers to this question and asked everyone I know to no avail. I wasn't getting a single notification for my messages after the update, all gone. And this morning I thought to check the notifications! My notification switch for messages was turned off. And boom it’s working again! Don’t know if you’ve already done this but I had to share since NO ONE thought to mention this. Good luck!

OMG now, in addition to no alert notifications, I find that Messages on my iPhone are not syncing to my MacBook Pro and iPad. I manually synced to iCloud and the texts on my iPhone are still not in my other devices. They have not synced since I did what someone suggested and did a reset. I have checked my settings and everything is set up to sync. Nothing is turned off. Can't figure out why my messages stopped syncing to my other devices. I am so frustrated.

I have the exact same problem with my iPhone X, I am not getting any notifications on my phone or my apple watch. only when I open an app does it notify me about messages, and this is on different platform (facebook, messanger, whatsapp, messages

I am having the same issues when I had iOS 13.2. I’ve updated to iOS 14 and I’m still having the same issues. I checked notifications, do not disturb, made sure I had a sound for my text, and my phone isn’t on silent mode. I hope they fix it soon. I’ve also restarted my phone and also resented my settings. The only thing left is a factory reset.

Text notifications / vibration do not work in silent mode with locked screen in iOS 14 on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. However, I get vibration / notifications on my Apple Watch 4, which is also set in silent mode.

An interesting detail is that I can make it work IF I take off my Apple Watch. Then text notifications / vibration work exactly as they should on my iPhone.

My Iphone doesnt notify me anymore concerning text messages coming in and some phone calls now. I made sure all my settings were set up properly. This is a new problem that started directly after the 14 update. There are a lot of posts on here about the same issue but I haven’t noticed any resolutions. Please help!

Jullemannen wrote:

An interesting detail is that I can make it work IF I take off my Apple Watch. Then text notifications / vibration work exactly as they should on my iPhone.

The way notifications work if you have an Apple Watch are as follows:

iPhone locked/watch locked - notifications sound on phone

iPhone locked/watch unlocked - notifications sound on watch

iPhone unlocked/watch unlocked - notifications sound on phone

That is as it has always been.

This is to Jullemannen. I know this is the way iPhone and Apple Watch are supposed to work but that is not how they have been working since I updated to iOS 14 on my iPhone. I do not receive any alerts on my iPhone and more often none on my Apple Watch also. There is a problem with text alerts since the update. I have a list of other problems I am finding too but haven’t had time to call Apple. Someone said a few days ago that they talked to Apple and they were aware of the text alert problem and were working on fixing it.

Looks like the issue is that the new update silences all texts when the phone is locked. under the do not disturb button in settings there are to options which must be checked which is ridiculous. Can’t turn it off so hopefully they fix it.

Yeah. I kept seeing troubleshooting tips to make sure DND isn’t on. Well it’s not but it appears the “Silence:", either option “Always” or “While phone is locked" might be active even though DND is NOT enabled. That setting always troubled me because you can’t select something like “Never”. Hoping they fix too!

Hi everyone,

This is the first time I've been signed in to apple communities so I hope I'm posting this in the right place.

I ended up solving this issue for myself with my new iPhone SE and ios14 just now. I went into an iMessage/text conversation with someone, clicked on "info" (where you can edit the contact's info). I scrolled down and there is an option called "hide alerts" and it was turned on! I turned it off now all of my vibrations and sounds come through like they should. I should also note that when I changed the setting for this one contact, it changed it for all of my contacts. I hope this helps some of you too!

I may have the solution.

I have had the same problem: no alert sound or banner when receiving text messages on IOS 14 when the display screen is dark and locked. I went through all of the suggestions in the settings: checking Do Not disturb, checking sound settings, restarting, and other items. None worked.

Then one day my wife and I were testing the alerts we decided to "Swipe Down," to view any notifications. It did not show any text notification, BUT, there was a notification stating that all notifications would be silenced until "Do Not Disturb is Turned Off." Then we touched that message, and a box appeared underneath that to "turn off the Do Not Disturb." We hit the box and it turned off the "Do Not Disturb." Oddly I had already checked in Settings and made sure that I did not have "Do Not Disturb" turned on. But we clicked the box anyway, and it worked. From that time on, all of my alerts are working. Very strange.

It seems that, somehow, the "Do Not Disturb" is screwed up in IOS 14 making it appear to be operating even when you turned it off.

So, test your messages by swiping down and this may work.