iPhone 12 Pro Notifications with no sound or alert of any kind

I don't have an iWatch yet I'm not receiving notification sounds. All of the sounds are set for the different types of communication such as ringtone, text tone, new mail etc, but all it does is vibrate when they come in.

Is it really possible that one of the most expensive phones on the market is unable to reproduce sound when a message comes in? That's quite astonishingly bad!

Under the "Do not disturb" settings there are two silence options:

Always

When Phone is locked

You have to have one of those options ticked. So is it the case that instead of that option working only when you're in Do Not Disturb mode, that it happens all the time when the phone is locked?

I've been going crazy with this problem all day and now just realised I had my phone on silent mode!

It's the little red switch at the external top left of the handset. Just flick it from red to black and all the sounds should work.

First you’re going to check your notifications If that ain’t working check in sounds and haptics if you’re still having problems scroll down to messages checking the messages section of settings by the way all of these are in settings then check your phone calls in settings by the way that FaceTime app that Apple got Get rid of it I think it’s what caused this I could be wrong thoughI could be wrong though check these thingszI could be wrong though check these things and if you’re still havingIf you’re still having problems get back a hold of me I might have some other ideas

I spent over an hour on the phone with people at Apple Support a week ago, first person went through all of the settings with me with no Joy, the second admitted they were aware of the issue and were working on it. This weeks update was supposed to have fixed the issue, so they said! After the update I'm getting intermittent notifications.

I see the “answers” that it’s a setting between the Apple Watch and the iPhone, and I get that, but it’s not an answer. I want to receive the vibration on both my watch and my phone because sometimes I don’t notice the watch vibrate, but I would notice the phone. Is there a way to turn that feature off?

I turned off my “wrist detection” and now I get alerts on both the phone and watch. Of course you give up some functions but to me it’s more important that I get the messages than say health stuff, sleep and like auto lock.

It’s exactly an issue between iwatch and iPhone. If I’m far enough away from my iwatch or I turn off Bluetooth the message app works as it did. I will get alerts. As soon as the iwatch is connected, message alerts on the iPhone won’t happen.

come on Apple, this should be an easy fix

Someone posted to turn off wrist detection on your iwatch. I did that, and that fixed me. Not sure all I am giving up in giving up wrist detection. I now get audible notifications to both phone and watch.

GARMIN Users - I went into my Garmin watch Settings --> Phone --> Notifications --> disabled. I left it disabled for a little bit and did receive text message alert on my phone. I then went back onto my Garmin watch and enabled the notifications. Right now I am getting notifications on my watch and phone. Will see if this lasts ....

Oh my goodness how horrible. I have the iPhone 12. I have received all my texts and messages with sound on both phone and watch. I am sorry that did not fix it for you. You for sure need your notifications.

I have the same issue - intermittent sound alerts on my iPhone 12 for text messages. I’ve checked all my sound settings and they are fine. I don’t have an Apple Watch. I have an iPad that also receives my iMessages, and I *think* that the sound notifications don’t work on my phone when I’m actively using my iPad, and they work fine when I’m not. I have DND turned on for my iPad. My theory is that Apple detects you’re active on one device so it uses that device’s notification settings (in this case, do not disturb on my iPad). It’s really annoying and I hope they fix it!

I have the same settings on my devices as you – but I virtually never use my iPad so don’t understand why my messages don’t come through while I’m at work. My work messages are really important and currently I am missing them most of the time.

In speaking to Apple Support they told me it’s a new feature. WTH? I asked what they are going to come up with next, we get an email telling us we have a phone call.

I emailed Tim Cook and told him that if Steve Jobs was still in charge, he would have fired the person that came up with the no alerts on your phone idea.

Unreal - dion248 nailed it for me! That **** little red button on the side. I hope that if it’s more than this, Apple produces a fix soon! Reading through these threads is definitely making me reconsider an Apple Watch!