iOS 14 text notification issues

Apple will never chime in because they aren’t here. There are Community Specialists that respond to posts that go unanswered for 24 hours wit knowledge base links and there are hosts that ensure rules are followed but there are no engineers, programmers or management reading this.

So fires are fires and they are all the same and you fight them the same way?

There are different problems in this thread:

not getting any notifications

not getting some notifications

getting notifications but no sound

getting sound on some notifications but not others.

only getting notifications on my watch but not my phone

How are these all the same?

And the vast majority of users are getting their notifications and their alerts.

Makes it a much more complex problem to fix.

OK diggie. I am aware there are no engineers on here. There are forum admins and they do report these type of threads at times. We thank you for your help. I'm sure there are other forums that need your help more than we do. You can go troll those forums now. We got this. BTW comparing different methods of fighting fires and different types of fires blows my mind. The difference is when we need a piece of equipment that isn't working or working as well, to use in a high rise to help with search and rescue for example, the city finds a fix and gets what we need! They don't bury their heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist. Speaking of fires, have to run. Starting to get busy with fires and shootings.

I have the same problem. I have tried everything, including resetting all settings (major pain!). It's so frustrating. Apple really needs to release a fix. I run a business and missing texts from my drivers and customers is causing major problems!

Sorry deggie. Wrong again. The original post is marked at the bottom of the post.....[Re-Titled by Moderator].

The idea of this thread is so we can try different things to see if anyone can figure out what to do about our phones. Of course, you DO need to call Apple tech support and get escalated as far up the line as you can get. The more people we get to do this, the more Apple may take this serious.

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I have a similar issue that started when I upgraded to 14.6 from 13.7. I am not getting sound notifications the banner is showing up on my locked screen but no sound is being played. I have an iPhone 6s plus and didn't have this issue when I was running on IOS 13.7. I have made sure do not disturb was not active The notification Sounds slider is on. I Have restored my iphone twice now. Also my battery storage has diminished since upgraded to 14.6. My phone usage hasn't changed. The only thing NEW, is the software upgrade. Please advise. Thank you.

I was having this problem. Driving me nuts. But I worked out if I turned my I watch off the notifications started again on my phone. With my watch turned on I only get the notifications on my watch. Not sure if it only happens at night but will do some more experimenting.

I am not getting sound notifications on text messages nor is the banner showing up on my locked screen. I have an iPhone 11 and just downloaded the latest iOS 14. Have reset my phone twice now. Please advise. Thank you.

Sorry to say, it won't stay that way. It will stop notifications again sooner or later. Those that do not have iWatches can get it to stop for a day or two by playing with settings, but is does start acting up again.

Read the comments above. I honestly think there will be no permanent fix until Apple receives enough phone calls that get escalated up the line. That just may get them to do something in a future release.

If you have an Apple Watch- turn it off. You will get messages notification now back on your phone when it’s locked. The latest update made your phone silent when locked and rerouted notifications to Apple Watch.

Not true. The latest update did it for a majority of people with or without the iWatch. I have only seen poss from a couple of people that had the problem previously. But thanks again for your input. But false.

LOL, are your really with a Fire Department. Do you have in iWatch? If so what company made it as Apple doesn't sell an iWatch. And now you are saying that 200 million people or so all have the same problem? Really.

And no, I've had 3 watches. If you set up the Apple Watch as designed when you are wearing it notifications will be sent to the Watch, not the iPhone. This was the intended operation from the very first Watch. There are kludges around to make it sound on both (thus irritating everyone around you) but you lose a lot of Watch functions when you use them. I've told you before this thread gets polluted when these type of posts are added to it.

 This is a straight up Apple iOS issue. Been thru a number of reset-all-settings and reload apps. Not an App issue. Even with all app notifications off, iMessages still fail to notify. And it started when I went from iOS 13.something to iOS 14.2. 

My recommendation is to contact Apple Support about the problem. They will eventually tell you to file a "feedback report" to report the bug. You'll need to take that step too, because until they receive a number of these they won't put priority on fixing the issue. If there are any authors on here that can better publicize this issue, that works too.

iOS 15 is supposed to overhaul Notifications. Maybe that will fix what they broke in iOS 14.

As someone who was on the first page of this thread, please trust that Apple knows there is an issue. I have spent months reading through people saying the SAME THING about contacting Apple over and over (and over). This is obvi a software issue and likely manifests itself in different ways. Plus, sprinkled in you have a lot of user errors of people who just have their notifications turned off.

Ive always highly suspected that this software has a massive bug with notifications across multiple devices (and yes I know some of you don’t have multiple devices - this isn’t for your issues).

recently, I’ve noticed that even when I’ve seen a text on my phone and have the string open, and there are responses coming through in my phone, my watch will notify me of texts from a few minutes ago that are already delivered and read… it’s a new fun twist to the issues :)