What does “Notifications Silenced” mean on iPhone

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’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

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.

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!!!!

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.

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

You should get a duplicate every time you text yourself. You get the one you send and the one you receive.

These messages should appear on opposite sides of the text thread, just like any other message and reply chain with another person.

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.

Thanks for figuring that out... a big thumbs up to you Doc!

I'm still not sure if they are under the influence of excessive adult beverages in the middle of the night can force the message through if I'm sleeping and DO NOT WANT TO BE DISTURBED because I've already got that set for certain contacts through my Favorites.

I'll text that next with someone NOT on my favorites list.

Cheers!

This has been a problem for me since I upgraded to iOS15. Yesterday I spent hours trying to find a solution online. THIS seems counterintuitive like you said, but THIS FIXED IT. Thank you Braindead Mac!

Thank you!! I have been struggling with this super frustrating problem for weeks. Thanks for taking the time to share the solution. I for one, appreciate your kindness. This is in response to the doctor who figured it out.

Mine DEFINITELY works as expected. There are times when I want focus enabled on computer (zoom calls) but disabled on phone (text get text notifications on phone during zoom calls on computer). I disable this switch on computer and change my focus settings. Then I can switch this button off and back on on my phone to get all devices synced again after zoom.

follow?

are all your OSes current?

This issue is driving me CRAZY.

I have turned every possible setting off, and yet, it’s still on!

I’ve received urgent messages from friends that I’ll immediately reply to, only to be greeted by the same ‘notifications silenced’ message.

Please FIX this.

Worst feature in years.

Thank you SO much for the info. We have medical emergencies in our house on a regular basis and this glitch was causing some major concerns. I am now fixed and I know I would NEVER have figured this out on my own.