What does “Notifications Silenced” mean on iPhone

Me 2…my wife and I both have the phone13 pro max it always says my wife has her notifications silenced when she does not. She even turned her send focus status off and still same thing. Makes me think she isn’t getting my messages. Apple needs to fix asap or I’ll be returning the piece of **** that riddled with glitches and problems

I have a person who has my number but has mild mental issues. They send me iMessages any time of day or night about stupid stuff and various delusions they are having. Even at 3am in the morning. I love them but... I have a life and previously I was able to silence them without them knowing and deal with their hundreds of messages at a time convenient to me. Now they are asking me why it says I have notifications silenced for their message stream. In my case it's true - I have silenced their conversation for the reasons stated. It's never urgent but they can't help themselves. If it were urgent they could always ring. I'm going to have to make something up as a response - but even if this was working correctly this is a gross invasion of MY privacy by Apple. I realise it's probably a mistake but they really haven't thought this through. Why does the other party need to know I've silenced notifications? It's none of their business and there may be good reasons why I want this information to remain private.

Sorry I realise this doesn't address the problem. But it does also say this if you really have silenced notifications. I just wanted to raise the issue that this feature is BAD news and may cause many people problems if they have similar situations to mine.

I found the answer to my problem here just in case anyone else has been suddenly hit by this and reads my rant. It's possible to turn off focus sharing - so they don't get the message anymore: https://webtrickz.com/stop-sharing-focus-status-ios-15/ - apologies for the noise I caused in this thread.

Omg yes!! I am having the same issue! People are thinking they cant text me cause i’m taking a mental break. It’s seems like such a small thing but it is so annoying. Yes my phone isnt on ringer but it is on vibrate. I have checked other people’s settings too and there’s are the same but they dont have this issue.

Having the same issue. Fiancee's phone telling others her notifications are silenced but Focus is off and DND is off. My phone is not doing it. Both on iOS 15.0.2. Hopefully 15.0.3 will fix it!!!!!!!

I am having the same issue my my 12, daughter xr and hubbys se. All saying silenced on imessge when they have not . We have tried all the recommendation on here and i have even been in to the Apple store and no luck . It needs sorting

And no offense at all jtempesta, I greatly appreciate your reply and acknowledgment that it’s affecting you too, but some people truly rely on this and it’s an important feature, we ALL just want it to work correctly and not when it shouldn’t and in the middle of the day.

Same problem on my phone. I turned off Focus being shared across all devices on all my devices. Still having the same problem. Odd bc when my wife texts me it shows on her phone I have notifications turned off. When my daughter texts me it does not show this on her phone.

I’m seeing this bug too. My GF gets these messages with every text to and from me, just like other posters here. Despite the message, I get all notifications on my end. This lasts for a few days then resolves itself, but eventually returns.

Worth noting, I have my GF on emergency breakthrough, so her texts should NEVER be silenced for me.

UPDATE

I just went to Settings > Messages and disabled the Focus setting. Immediately the message stopped being sent to my GF. I then turned it back on and all seems good so far. So while it is fixed for me now, I expect this issue to return unless addressed by Apple.

I am experiencing the exact same issue. I recently upgraded to an iPhone 13 mini with iOS 15 from the 11 pro, and every time someone on iOS try’s to text me it tells them that I have notifications silenced. I do not have them silenced and I receive them as normal. What is going on?

This doesn’t work. It is now Nov 11 and this bug is still happening. My husband just updated his phone to 15 and now on his thread it shows a moon and name has notifications silenced. I keep having to push notify anyway just to message him. It’s very inconvenient since we text back and forth while he’s at work.

I just spoke to Apple support. They told me they are working on a solution for this issue. The work arounds that they attempted for a short term work around did not work. It does sound like it’s a known issue on Apples end.

Nov 17 and still no fox for this bug. Is becoming more and more annoying!! Apple please fix this, so many people are experiencing this and it’s causing havoc! Had previous iOS updates but still no fix for this…

Hello, My phone has been saying the same thing for the last 2 weeks since I updated to ios15. I’ve done everything, during the focus off and on, messing with all the settings, resetting my settings, and nothing seems to make it go away. Super annoying

I was having these issues as well. After a months of trying everything I thought about checking out my Apple Watch. The watch actually had focus off. I turned it on and now that “notifications silenced” is finally gone!