iOS 14 text notification issues

This is a horrible update in my opinion. In this day and age where a lot of people are working from home and multitasking, I rely on my phone to both listen to conference calls as well as triage projects through text message at the same time. Without the audio notification feature during a call I frequently miss urgent text messages. This needs to be reverted back ASAP!

I updated my iOS 14 last month, and suddenly this beta iOS14 push notification kept popping out after I'm off of imessages, and social media. I keep putting close, and then I checked my software updates and it said iOS 14.2 Your software is up to date. I don't get it why.

I went into settings, notifications, messages, and changed the Banner style to persistent and added repeat alerts twice as an added reminder. Notifications for text seem okay now. Not sure if that will fix the issue.

There seems to be a bunch of different ways to fix the problem described in the original post. I posted my solution twice. The bottom line is that this is a bug introduced in iOS 14.x and needs a permanent solution. Meanwhile people should try the multiple solutions that worked for others. Apple’s Quality Assurance (QA) is not what it should be. This includes regression testing features that worked before but were broken or impacted by new features introduced in the latest iOS.

I am having the same issue and also not receiving notifications for other email apps as well as social media. Thought it may be an app needs to be updated issue but that doesn’t seem to have worked either. I am missing critical emails that require immediate response.

I’m not sure if I even had iOS 14 installed or not but my camera roll was acting funny so I did the current update 14.1 and all of a sudden I have this same issue with no sound when texts come in and no banners/notifications when locked. I read what another user did and did the same and it fixed it for me too.

I just went to notifications and turned them off, did a hard reboot, turned notifications back on and it works again. I’ve been messing with all day trying to figure it out and thought I had already done this one but apparently not. HTH someone else. Btw...only read to page 3 so this has probably been mentioned already several times. I apologize if it has.

I had the same issue. Go to settings - notifications - show previews - click “always”. Mine was automatically set to “when unlocked” when I did the update. It’s not under messages notifications. Just the main sections. As long as your messages are set up for notifications, this should fix the issue.

All off the suggestions for a fix that have been mentioned above still aren't working. I am not getting a vibration or audio sound notifications for incoming texts while on a call. Apple needs to take this feature into consideration for those of us who are blind or visually impaired. We are missing important notifications while on a call.

This worked for me:

If you don't see or hear any alerts when your iPhone or iDevice locks (display sleep mode,) enable theShow on Lock Screen setting. Go to Settings > Notifications > Messages and verify that Show on Lock Screen is toggled on.

Hope this Helps!

I really don't understand why the notification feature was removed and also reinforces why I am always hesitant to do the updates. My phone is my work phone so if I'm on a call, it's extremely important that I am aware of either a text message or a google chat message. This is such a minor feature, but an important one for many people. Please fix this!!

I upgraded to 14.1 on my Iphone 11 and had the same problem. Group me and gmail notifications stopped giving a sound. I turned off bluetooth and turned my phone and restarted it which solved the problem. Now, if I get an email through gmail I get the sound notifications.

Same problem, iPhone 8 just randomly stopped specific push notifications from some apps. I also have a couple of colleagues with the same problem (different model iPhones) iOS updates have made no difference nor has resetting devices.

The description of the fixes in 14.2 doesn’t even say anything about text notifications or Bluetooth. I am hesitant to install it if it doesn’t fix the problem. I don’t care about more emojis or wallpaper. I want notifications to work.

I also updated to 14.2 and the problem is still there. It has to be related to the iWatch. When I power my watch off, my notifications appear on phone Lock Screen. As soon as I turn my watch on - the notifications stop. I do have an older iWatch running 6.2.9 Watch iOS and it cannot be updated to 7.0. I ordered a new iWatch several weeks ago. It will be interesting to see if issue goes away with iWatch 7.0 iOS.

I had a 7.1 update available on my Apple Watch so I did that then did the 7.2 update on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. Will see what happens. Fingers crossed but not expecting the notification problem being resolved based on mixed messages being posted here.