No Messages notifications after update to iOS 14.2

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.

Same, but the problem extends beyond just messages. I'm not getting most of my notifications (Ring, Calendar). I've gone in and checked and even changed my settings to persistent made the hapics longer and the settings aren't sticking. One or two notifications will push to my watch but not all of them. I have an iPhone 12 pro and the latest iOS 14.

I already said my problem was not a notifications related problem but I spent quite a lot of time trying to figure that our. I assume some of the people discussing here have an app background refresh problem and they think it is a notifications problem. And I did restart several times before that and that did not help. So my fix to my problem (again not a notifications problem, but barely separable symptoms) was not because of the restart.

This has also been happening to me. I tried resetting my phone but it didn’t do anything. I’m not sure why it’s doing this. Messages won’t show up on my watch either so I never know when I have gotten a text message and have to keep checking to see if I missed any messages. Very frustrating. I hope it’s fixed soon.

I love how this happens or something similar every time a new model phone is released. It’s almost like I don’t have a choice. It doesn’t matter that I just got the last model phone and have kept it in the best condition and babied it and treated it like gold and updated it and kept it protected from all evil. Looks like I’m being forced to buy another.

I had this issue around April/May this year. It seemed to fix itself but has recently started doing it again. It really is frustrating now.

I have found doing a reset works, but only a temporary fix.

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 have been marking every message that’s been affected with a thumbs up in the hope that info will be helpful for my case and the info the engineers have, otherwise I’ll be waiting for 14.3 to hopefully fix it but it’s seriously annoying. While on the phone to apple I was sending iMessages to myself from a different phone and my phone was locked and did nothing but on the other phone the text was marked as read straight away. So I am hopeful to have enough evidence of the glitch for them to be able to fix it

With my case with apple there was talk that the next fix would be to reset my phone to factory settings so I hope the engineers come back with a solution before resorting to this option 🤦🏼‍♀️ We tried re installing 14.2 in recovery mode, I reset the phone and then put my iCloud back up back on, tried changing messages settings turning the phone on and off and nothing worked. I have to say Alex who I have been dealing with has been great, just a waiting game if the engineers will come back with a solution after I gave them diagnostics data and time stamps of which of my messages were affected by no notifications. Keeping my fingers crossed 🤞🏻

I had an issue where it wouldn’t notify me when I got a message no ping as stated no nothing. What ended up happening was that somewhere in my messages one had failed to send who knows when and it was bugging it to where I wouldn’t receive notifications. I reset all the settings not the phone just all the settings and it worked. Hope this helps anyone.

I have had to same problem and contacted apple support a month ago. I was hopeful at first and sent diagnostics, screenshots and screen recordings of the issue to the engineering team, After a lot of back and forth and I sent more evidence and reports I was called yesterday and was told it "may" be fixed in the next update and to check discussions like this for a resolution. I was absolutely appalled with this response and put in a complaint. If anyone is in the middle of waiting to hear back from the engineering team I would prepare yourself for a similar disappointing response.

I am on a 12 pro and running 14.2.1 - still happening for me. It was fixed for a minute but then I noticed today that I wasn’t getting text messages notifications from android users again. I missed a text from my son.

I too have an iphone XS, and I am having the same issue since the IOS14.2 upgrade and it is driving me crazy! I would say 30% of my text messages (happening with both Imessage and SMS), I am not getting a notification... no sound, no red number over my message icon indicating a new message, no banner on the screen, nothing!! The weird thing is some texts are working just fine. Others do not. So I know it's not a setting because I have not changed anything. And if it was a setting thing, they would all be screwed up. I have missed important messages. You have to keep constantly checking your message log to see if there is anything new.. who wants to do this? What good is the phone if you don't know when you are getting a text? A lot of texts I receive are time sensitive. I have to tell the people hours or days later oh sorry I just saw this text now. Not good. What is Apple doing about this?? I have tried every work around that people have posted online, and so far nothing is working. Please help!

One thing I have found that is a “work around” but super annoying to do is close the message app completely after every text you send. Make sure it delivers and then close your app. You should get notifications then. Super frustrating having to do that though.

Unfortunately, I've been doing this (closing out of my message app) today constantly and it's still happening. I would say it's happening less but at least 2 or 3 texts that I know of have come in with no notifications when I am positive I had closed out of the message app prior. So I can say this is not a 100% effective work around.