What does "notifications silenced" mean in Messages?

People such as myself are reporting this even when the other person (whose ID reports notifications silenced) does NOT have Focus turned on. In my case, the other person did not even have Focus (still on a prior iOS), and DND was NOT on. I verified this myself by examining the other phone. I was able to disable the notice from that phone by turning DND *ON*. Then when turning DND off again the notification did not come back on .

Miloandsylvia wrote:

DND means Do Not Disturb

holaguy's question was answered later that very same day. Back in November.

And on Dec 7, Dec 11, Dec 12, Dec 16, Dec 17, Dec 20, Dec 22, Dec 25, Dec 26 (2x), Dec 27, Dec 28, Dec 30, Jan 1, Jan 2, Jan 3, Jan 23, Jan 24, Feb 3 (in quotes for some reason), Feb 6, Feb 10 (but they weren't sure of their answer), Mar 4, and Mar 12. I didn't count the incorrect answer (Dungeons and Dragons) though it was my favorite.

I wonder if you have any insight as to why people keep answering this question?

I’ve dealt with others telling me my notifications are silenced when they are indeed not. I restarted my phone, turned the notifications on and off, and turned do not disturb on and off in hopes it wouldn’t show others my “notifications are silenced”. I went back to settings and went to the focus tab and turned it off. Hopefully that works out for you guys!

This was occurring on my wife’s phone. I tried multiple things to fix, to no avail.

The last thing I just did seems to work (for now). Focus, Do Not Disturb, allowed the app “Messages”. Of course, the silenced thing went away. I then removed Messages as allowed under DND. So far, no alert about silenced messages. 🤞

Guess the thread is getting long on the same subject but the Focus ON and Off and DND On then Off DOES NOT WORK.

This is a bug in the software that has caused this issue for a good bit of people and it is not fixed by reboots and off and ons.

Eventually Apple will get to it, they are never fourth coming on issues like this. They will just fix it and pretend it did not happen so patience is all.

Software sometimes glitches, people seem to have this misconception that because something that is enable or disabled that it will work all the time. That is not the case here. Just disable all focus toggles, then go to privacy and scroll down to focus. Make sure to enable toggle here. Go back to notifications and enable focus toggle again, have someone observe your messages on their phone. Keep toggling on and off your focus until you see your silenced mode on your friends messages disappears. You can go back and toggle off focus in the privacy settings as well, it should not come back.

I have diasabled all the focus toggles off and on so many times including the focus under privacy and you are right it should not come back on BUT IT DOES. Not all iPhones are doing this but I have 2 stubborn ones that do this no matter how many times you toggle it and thats what some people don't get issue is not resolved thru the UI, it is a software issue that only Apple can fix.

One of the iPhones ironically only shows "notifications silenced" when texting macs or iPads and not other iPhones.

The problem is an IOS bug. Apple has not admitted it being a bug. What worked for me is to DELETE the focus from the other user. Example: I get “notifications are silenced” from user A in Messages. User A did not have notifications silenced or a focus enabled. User A then deleted their personal focus and then re-added it. It removed the “notifications are silenced” in messages on my phone.

HELLO, WHAT DOES NOTIFICATIONS SILENCED MEAN DOES IT MEAN THE PERSON I'M SENDING A VIDEO A TEXT MESSAGE a YouTube video they show up on the screen my screen and she responded saying your notifications have been silenced and I looked up some of

answers and they said DND do not know what that means please advise is she at receiving any of my videos or am I being blocked like you can block a person and not see anything please respond thank you

Thank you! After trying everything that was suggested in the community, what finally worked was Toggling do not disturb on and off. I also toggled on and off, the Share across devices button. I can’t thank you enough!

UrsulaKirk59 wrote:

DND=Do not Disturb. 😇

holaguy's question was answered later that very same day. Back in November.

And on Dec 7, Dec 11, Dec 12, Dec 16, Dec 17, Dec 20, Dec 22, Dec 25, Dec 26 (2x), Dec 27, Dec 28, Dec 30, Jan 1, Jan 2, Jan 3, Jan 23, Jan 24, Feb 3 (in quotes for some reason), Feb 6, Feb 10 (but they weren't sure of their answer), Mar 4, and Mar 12, April 3, aand April 8.

Can you help me understand why people keep posting answers to that question? Is it that no one is reading the rest of the thread?

actually, her question has never truly been answered

i too had this issue, spent hours and hours on the phone with six different apple support people whom cannot fix this problem on my phone.

except they had me disable literally everything to do with Di Not Disturb

Now my watch is about useless and i don't get any notifications

Apple has ruined what used to be a good user friendly phone by Integrating the Focus App with everything

it was simple before. if you wanted to focus you moved the little button on the side of the phone and it silenced your phone

now instead you need a degree in phone technology and hours of extra time to waste learning to set up focus scenarios. Dumb.

Really Dumb.

so no, no one has truly answered the original problem/question

What original problem oh my God the fucking message doesn’t go away yes we know it’s glitchy bugs different phones different models different chipsets, Different carriers some suggestions obviously aren’t gonna work for every single person here backup the phone on a computer wipe out the phone log off of every device restore your phone go back to DND make sure that it’s off anything related to it is turned off and that’s it. That’s it if it doesn’t work then obviously Apple really needs to get on the ball nothing you can do from this point just deal with it

Because ppl are kind by nature and want to help. It’s a knee jerk reaction to responding to a need without worrying about others stepping up. Perhaps if more ppl reacted that way to more important life issues we wouldn’t have so much unrest on earth. Happy Easter to all - May you be a beacon of hope and maintain positive vibes in your life.

I have three devices, two that are not updated with the focus mode and one that has been telling people that I have notifications silenced even when I turn off my "Focus Status". My phone was on 14.1.1 (No focus mode), my computer on Mojave and my ipad is on 15.4.1 and sharing status with focus mode is turned off.

My family is not happy with me, please show me how to fix.