No Messages notifications after update to iOS 14.2

Hi.


Yesterday I updated my iPhone XS to iOS 14.2. Today I noticed that since that update, I’m not receiving notifications from iMessages and normal SMS’s in Messages app. New messages arriving but there are no sound or plate, not notification number over an icon too. Messages appear and are marked like a “read” already. It’s very frustrating since I heavily rely on text messages and need to track app by myself to not miss any messages. Sometimes notification appear but mostly there are no sign of new message


I have Apple Watch too and there are no notifications there as well. Only messages appear in conversations.


Any idea what’s the reason of that and where can I search for a fix. My phone is nearly unusable now, since most what I’m doing is texting.


Thanks.

iPhone XS, iOS 14

Posted on Nov 7, 2020 12:24 PM

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Posted on Feb 12, 2021 5:53 AM

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 :)

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Nov 16, 2020 10:38 AM in response to Caladean

Yep! Add me to the list of people having this problem. I’ll get a notification for a text message, but none after that so I’m constantly missing people’s replies to my messages sent to them. When this happens, I’m not getting notifications on my Apple Watch either.


Is anyone else getting sick of all these bugs introduced to every new version of iOS?? It just gets worse.

Nov 21, 2020 2:00 PM in response to michaelba-dk

I asked my older brother because his gf also has the same issue and she told me is because of the update it's really bad and the bad software update mess the our phone and our messages up that is why we have the issue and I guess we have to wait until another new update is going to launch to fix these bugs and everything I hate this update and apple ain't doing nothing about it.

Dec 4, 2020 3:04 PM in response to jsharpe89

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

Dec 4, 2020 3:10 PM in response to Caladean

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 🤞🏻

Dec 4, 2020 10:56 PM in response to Caladean

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.

Dec 18, 2020 8:14 AM in response to Iphonefan66

Hi all, I just want to report I was part of the group that was reporting missing text notification... I did update my software yesterday to 14.3. I am please to report so far so good, not missing any texts, even tried to coax it into doing it, and it's all good. Also the delayed texting when you first start typing a text seems to have been fixed as well. Yayyy Apple!! I have an iphone XS by the way.

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