What does “Notifications Silenced” mean on iPhone

Just to be 100% clear… are you adjusting the Focus settings on the phone receiving to silenced notifications, or the phone that sends the texts that get marked silenced?

You have to toggle the Focus settings on the phone that SENDS the texts, which then get labeled as silenced. The receiving phone has nothing to do with this issue.

I’ve tried everything. Even was on phone with Apple care for an hour. When someone sends me a text, I get a message and they get a message that it is silenced. When I text someone else it is fine. I turned off focus and disabled it . Nothing works

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.

I am having the same issue, but I did not do the new update… so my boyfriend is getting the “___has silenced notifications” message pop up Every-time he sends a text to me. But I don’t even have the “focus” feature yet. (I am out of storage on this device new one comes in soon) but terribly annoying for him and I cannot fix it.

What a mess. We spent the last hour trying to troubleshoot this. Nothing worked. Husband had issue on his iphone SE 2020 and no matter what we tried we still got same message. My iphone 8+ had no issue regardless of my settings, whether focus was on or off or shared. Finally we stumbled on turning off his scheduled Do Not Disturb settings and magically the notification was gone! We turned the schedule back on and all is fine. For now the issue is resolved but seriously, Apple this is a FAIL. How many people will have to waste an hour or more? Most will never resolve it, some may tie up Apple Support if they have the patience. It was not broken, Apple. DO BETTER! - Pulling our Hair Out in New Jersey!

Same problem for me and my wife! This is the worst issue I think I’ve ever encountered with Apple products! We have disabled Focus and DND and Share Across Devices on our Mac Minis, iPads, Apple Watches and IPhones. NOTHING WORKS!!!!

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.

This is a gross violation of my privacy.

Although it appears to be fixed now, at least for the contact who told me it was happening, my contacts are now aware that I was using the focus features to manage our interactions. I’ll also never know how many connections I may have missed because iPhone notified a contact I was busy.

Thank you, Braindead Mac, for your efforts with the time you spent on this. I followed your instructions completely then did one last thing. I went back to Settings > Focus > Do Not Disturb and turned "Share Focus Status" back to Off. This got rid of the "Notification silenced" note that appeared on my text messages that I sent out. Bravo!! So thank you again.

i have the same issue but with a slight twist , my son asked me why i have notifications silenced, i did what everyone else has done to no avail.

but i sometimes send myself texts , screenshots , info sites etc , when the text arrives it is in duplicate with one saying my notifications are silenced and one without that message

why is that?

i have turned off focus rebooted my phone i have no clue as to why what do you guys think, am i just an idiot luddite ?

this worked for me, thank you , i still have another issue but it's most likely that i'm an idiot,

i mentioned in another reply that i get duplicate messages when I text myself something i want to easily find again instead of searching thru mail or news etc ,

I know, I know, i can hear everyone agreeing that I am an idiot

it only happens when i send something to myself and only just recently it's a bit annoying but i can live with it just curious as to why it happens ,and what i did to cause this to happen , but i now don't get the silence notification anymore .

thank you Dr

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

Well I thought I had finally found the answer here. All my Focus settings are off. Then as suggested above I went into the individual person message and YES the Share Focus Status was on for both of the people that were having the issue. I turned it off for both people and then it worked properly for one person but not the other!!!

iPhone Pro 13, iOS 15.2.1, cannot turn off "notifications silenced”. I’ve tried every Focus, sleep, notification setting I’ve read here and that I can find. I was running iOS 15.0.1 on my iPhone pro 11, no problem at all. This started as soon as I set up my new iPhone Pro 13. This is making it impossible to receive texts. I’ve tried disabling “share focus status” on each contact, this doesn’t work. I’ve signed out of iCloud on ALL my iOS and MacOS devices with no luck upon signing back in. I’ve done a network and all setting reset, no luck. Has to be a bug, please fix ASAP. I’m going to have to use an Android phone until this is resolved.