No Messages notifications after update to iOS 14.2

I’m using an IPhone SE and what worked for me was to long press on each individual contact in messages and turn on “show alerts” the update temporarily turned them off. Mine are working now. Hope this helps :)

I had this issue as-well, but just found the cause.

Did you pin the text conversation so it’s at the top?

click and hold on who ever ya not getting the alerts for. You should see a show alerts button. Would be hide alerts if this isn’t the cause.

hope this helps

Updated to 14.2.1 and it fixed the problem for me.

Just a thought - because I had a similar situation a few months ago (prior to iOS 14). Try this:

turn off all notifications for iMessage

log out of imessage

log in to imessage

turn on notifications

Power cycle the phone somewhere in there...not sure what the right sequence is. Also, in my case, a carrier settings update was involved - that was Verizon in July.

I've figured out a work around for this that's pretty easy. Simply change the text tone for the contact(s) you want to receive notifications for and it solves this. In iMessage, select the contact, tap INFO > INFO > EDIT and then choose a different text tone. You'll start getting the notifications. It's not a solution, but will work.

I reset my phone countless times before trying this workaround. That won't fix the issue. I've reset my Send and Receive from as well and turned on and off notifications. Nothing worked except this.

ios 14.3 fortunately did the trick for me

I have had a similar issue after upgrading to iOS 14.2: messages would not arrive unless I had Whatsapp on the foreground. Facetime would not ring unless I had it in the foreground. I noticed that mine was not a notifications issue. It was about apps not refreshing properly in the background. This is what seems to have solved it for me: disable app refresh in the background (General>Background app refresh), restart the phone, enable it back. See if that helps.

Background app refresh has nothing to do with it. I’ve always had that turned off, way before iOS 14. My guess is that it was the restart that temporarily fixed it, as it does with mine as well, but it’ll start doing it again.

What seems to be going on is that the Messages app behaves as though the chat window is still active, even though you’re either in another app or the phone screen is off. This would explain why there’s no notification sound, banner, or badge when that person sends a new message, unless enough time has passed where the phone finally realizes the chat window isn’t actually open anymore. Brilliant.

Meanwhile, anyone else notice the typing delay is back in Messages as well? Not as often as before 14.2, but still there nonetheless.

Go to your watch app. Then settings, general, reset sync data. That will re-sync your contacts and put the names back and you will lose nothing because of it when you do it it will seem like the button is not doing anything but it does.

i think the issue might be with that new feature that shows the pinned conversations at the top of your messaging in the big circles? i closed all of them and it seems to be working fine now....

In the bugs to be fixed in 14.3 released today it says they are fixing that some message notifications may not be received. Keeping my fingers crossed it works

I fonud this maybe helpfull

try to go settings-messages-and see if its notify turned on like this

Finally got notified of a message after the 14.3 update. Maybe won’t get so many pocket dials, disconnects from hearing aid and mess ups w Libby library app.

I have this problem which I just noticed in the last week or so as well (probably since iOS 14.2) - some messages don't have notifications and are essentially already marked as 'read' on arrival. Doesn't happen to all SMS's, but often enough that you have to constantly keep opening your individual conversations regularly during the day to check whether any messages have arrived.

It's already caused some frustration on the other end with people annoyed that I haven't replied when I didn't even know I'd received a message because it arrived in the 'read' state.

I agree that this is a critical bug that compromises the SMS (and potentially iMessage) functionality of the iPhone entirely.