What does “Notifications Silenced” mean on iPhone

So under Settings, you need to select Privacy, then select Focus, and turn off the SHARED WITH MESSAGES. That is how my husband fixed his!!

I was having the same issue the last couple weeks. I just went to Settings>Privacy >Focus and toggled the messages ON. Seems to have finally fixed it!

I’ve figured it out. Go to Settings > Focus > Allowed notifications and you can either add the apps or the people you want. If worked for me.

Again, we need to be perfectly clear about the phone you are working with, in terms of the text sending and receiving chain.

Your comments seem to indicate that you are seeing the “silenced” message on your phone, when receiving a text message. If this is the case, YOU CANNOT FIX THIS! The sender of that text needs to toggle their Focus settings off/on to resolve that message on your phone.

If someone else is getting the silenced message on texts you send to them, toggle your Focus settings and that should resolve the message on their phone.

Not sure if this is a fluke or not but for some reason hubbies iPhone had iMessage turned OFF under Settings-Messages-iMessage. I toggled it ON, sent him a text for the 4th time and it went through.

Again hopefully not a one time fix. My iMessage was on. We don’t know how his got turned off.

I was getting the same message everyone else is and he wasn’t getting my texts. Did that and it worked. Hopefully it sticks.

Finally resolved it! On my iPad I enabled DND, Enabled Share Across Devices, deleted the Driving automation, Deleted the recommended scheduled automation, then I turned off share across devices and turned off DND.

My spouse and I noticed the same problem with the recent upgrade and are as frustrated as many others are with Apple‘s decision to do this without consultation or consideration for whether or not we wanted people to know whether or not our notifications were on or off. We notice it only pops up when we use the messaging service on our iPhones so we went into the settings for messaging and turned off the “focus” setting. That seem to work

I tried everything that has been posted on this board. Nothing worked. The other day, I updated to 15.2.1, they made no mention of a fix by the way. Anyway, it was still there then I checked Focus and the update had turned it back on. I turned it off, went in and deleted the schedule and voila, problem gone. It even backtracked and took those earlier notifications off any message thread. I know, it’s all voodoo, I did all of that stuff before the update, cycled phone power once or twice a week, kept up with updates, nothing worked. Now this. Some of you will try this to no avail, it may work for some. Check Focus, it seems to sneak stuff in. It’s all voodoo. Good luck.

I deleted focus and now it seems to work. Don’t need it and don’t want it

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.

Try this, follow exact steps with no other actions between steps.

• On phone, turn Share Across Devices OFF then ON (if already off, turn on, off and back on) THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT TO FOLLOW EXACTLY!
• Now on phone enable any Focus mode
• Check other devices. Is same Focus mode now enabled?

See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253168426?answerId=256206763022#256206763022

Go to settings- focus turn off everything it thinks your driving all the time

You need to go on your Mac settings and under notifications and focus turn off “Share across devices” on the focus tab.

Hey there Dinyehl!

From what we gather you're having issues with Message notifications being shown as silenced in your conversations.

Have you tried toggling the Focus settings on both devices before restarting the iPhone to test?

If so, can you check your Message notification settings to help make sure everything checks out there?

Change message notifications on iPhone

Keep us updated.

Cheers!