Delayed notifications

Guys i found a fix to this problem.

I’m using iPhone 8 Plus on 14.4.1, i just did a reset all settings. After that reset, the notification works as it should. And then i changed the keyboard settings in my phone then the problem comes back. After minutes of trying to find the culprit, i think it’s the character preview.

1. Go to settings
2. General
3. Keyboard
4. Turn character preview to on

This fix it for me, please report back if your problem fixed too!

Dear All,

For the past view days I have been experimenting and was not able to find a real “fix” to this. It’s somehow related to the internet connection dropping whenever the screen is locked. To overcome this, I installed 1.1.1.1 app and use it on demand. So far the connection is stable and all notifications are on time. I think this is the best workaround I can share with you guys for the time being.

Let me know if it works for you. Thanks.

Link:

https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/1-1-1-1-faster-internet/id1423538627

I also have this problem on iPhone 12. I have read the whole thread, there are several solutions on iOS, but they don't seem to work. In my experience this error is related to the carrier, I have this error since I made a change of plan with my mobile carrier in February of this year. I did a test, put a SIM from another carrier in my iPhone and the notifications started working without problems; then I put my SIM in another iPhone and stopped receiving notifications. There is a problem in the carrier's network that is causing the network to go to sleep. I recommend that you do the test using a SIM from another carrier. If we identify the origin of the problem, we can find a solution. Please take that test and comment your results.

I will do right now is to call my carrier to notify the erorr.

The fix working for me is that you turn off the notifications of the app having delayed notifications (for me, I did this to all of my apps), then restart your phone and turn notifications back on. The fix seems working since last week. I just saw this from another thread about no notifications on their messages app.

I Think I have managed to fix this. I now get WhatsApp messages instantly, but I am still verifying.

1) Go to Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh

2) Turn everything off

3) Go back into WhatsApp. You should get a message saying that you'll get notifications faster if you turn app refresh on.

4) Go back to Step 1 and turn all off EXCEPT WhatsApp.

I am not sure if step 3 is necessary, but it's what I did.

After this, all my messages worked.

Now I do use telegram as well, and I have noticed that there is still a delay (with just WhatsApp and telegram background refresh on), but I am not sure if this is a telegram problem as their system works differently.

If anyone has this issue, please take the above steps and notify if it fixed your problem.

Thanks!

Hello once again guys. I think I finally found the culprit. I removed all my widgets and now notifications are on time.

Please try on your end and confirm. Thank you. 👌

I MIGHT have a fix. Still testing it. Do you have scheduled Do Not Disturb turned on? Go to Settings, Do Not Disturb. Turn OFF “Do Not Disturb” as well as the “Scheduled” option.

TheNavigator21 wrote:

Hello once again guys. I think I finally found the culprit. I removed all my widgets and now notifications are on time.

Please try on your end and confirm. Thank you. 👌

I’m a dummy....I don’t think I have any widgets, or at least I never set any up but here’s the IPad ( no delays) and iPhone ( delays).

Do you also have an Apple Watch? Check out - Official Apple Support Article HT204791 (for example: support[dot]apple[dot]com/en-us/HT204791).

That Official Apple article clearly states, "Notifications go to either your Apple Watch or iPhone, but not both." and that, "If your iPhone is unlocked, you'll get notifications on your iPhone instead of your Apple Watch." - and furthermore, "If your iPhone is locked or asleep, you'll get notifications on your Apple Watch, unless your Apple Watch is locked with your passcode."

I have reproduced this behavior with iPhone 12 Pro running iOS 14.6 and Apple Watch 6 running watchOS 7.5..

I will take a wild guess that your iPhone is trying to send the iMessages and/or other Notification to your paired Apple Watch, but eventually gives up (times out) and finally gives you the Notification on your iPhone.

I urge you to file a complaint or at least submit feedback with Apple to allow DUAL-NOTIFICATIONS on both the Watch AND the iPhone for iMessages simultaneously, and hopefully with enough complaints they will add this obviously highly desired behavior of NO DELAYS if the WATCH it out of range or otherwise just to make sure you get the text message.

Exactly what you say happens to me, but I have been with this error for 4 months, I have done many tests, one of them for example, had the iPhone (12 Pro) unlocked, I asked someone to write to me on WhatsApp and iMessage and I did not receive the notifications. In the Control Center turned off the cellular data, I immediately received the pending notifications. Then I did the same test, only this time I had the cellular data turned off, I only had Wi-Fi activated, I asked someone to write to me on WhatsApp and iMessage and received the notifications immediately.

It seems that the error is related to cellular data. It is different to have only Wifi, than Wifi + Mobile data.

If you could do this test and comment on the results. Thanks.

It's been 4 hours now and the issue has been resolved! (for me at least). I reenabled the notifications for Gmail and still good on that end too. So, I guess the problem app was Outlook.

When the iPhone is blocked after a few minutes, it begins to use the mobile data and not the Wi-Fi (I investigated it in many web sites).

The technology area of my carrier told me that it is a known error, they made some configurations on their servers but I still have the same error. However, as I indicated, when I put a SIM from another carrier, the notifications work without problems.

I think I fixed this issue for myself. Still testing. I had a hunch that either the Outlook or Gmail apps were causing this issue. So I went into settings, opened Outlook, went to notifications, and turned off notifications. I then did the same thing for Gmail.

So far, so good.

It looks like also my missing WhatsApp notifications got fixed after removing the WhatsApp widget! Actually it was the only widget I had and it was the only app with broken notifications.

Try to turn on app badges for the delayed apps. This fixes my issue (i did a settings reset before that)