What does "notifications silenced" mean in Messages?

having same issue. I don’t have multiple devices. I have 1 device. My phone is the only device I have. So does this mean if people are still seeing that my notifications are silenced that someone else has access to my iCloud account?

I thought it was fixed, but now having same issue again with a different person. Before it was my mom's phone that was the issue. Now my wife is getting it. No telling how many others think I have them muted.

I hope apple finds a fix for this, i have clients mad at me and i dont even know how to fix it. I hope someone at apple can look and see youve been making noting but mistakes for the past few years your products are no longer easy to use and helpful. if you want to add features allow us the consumer to opt in and opt out on what we want. also add the calculator back to the macbook tool bar.

I wonder if this is because someone is using multiple Apple devices, if one of the devices doesn’t have Focus? It happens on my wife’s iPhone and we’ve checked all her settings are correct, but she uses an old iPad with 12.5.5 o/s and it won’t update further?

My phone shows this DND and I’ve done everything to try to get it off and it shows still on my kids messages … is this something APPLE just assigned to anyone who ones an iPhone ??? Otherwise it should NOT be showing this .. I’ve not blocked ANYONE ever

I’ve tried everything short of standing on my head to resolve this. It’s an obvious Apple issue that needs fixed considering texting is the most used app on any phone. Absurd this is an issue let alone one dragging on since October.

Well I had had this happen twice now. I dont use Focus I have it turned off but I use the scheduling Do Not Disturb. From 10 PM toll 5 AM.

And it came up again.

I googled it and turned off everything that they say in Messages, Privacy and Focus. The only thing in Focus is the Auto Schedule that I use. So not really a part of Focus. So I even turned that off. And it still tells everyone I am silenced. My favorites and regular contacts. Everyone. I have read everything and it seems that Focus is integrated throughout the whole phone. That is why Apple has not done anything on it to fix it. It is too big. But they need to as it is a pig. I hear and read it is a big mess that they have created., How they are going to turn this thing off, I dont know or fix it. The last time I chnaged all settings to off and it took a few days and then it finally stopped saying it on peoples phones. Just dont use it. There is a toggle on the side of the phone. Manual is best I guess till someone can figure out how to make it work properly.

You would not belive how many people have an issue with this. It is huge.

Please someone come up with a how to turn this off and make it work. It is confusing to people who read that notification.

Hi,

• Settings > Messages > Allow Messages to Access > disable Focus.

• Settings > Focus > Share Across Devices should be disabled if you do not want your current or active Focus status to reflect across devices signed into the same Apple ID.

• Settings > Focus > click on the affected Focus > Focus Status > Share Focus Status should be disabled.

• Settings > Privacy > Focus > Messages should be disabled.

Thanks

Yes I did all of those steps then rebooted. I even signed out of icloud as I saw that as a fix. and it still shows silenced. I did exactly the same steps last time and it seemed to take about 8-24 hrs before it finally changed. Lets hope it does that again.

Don’t you see a lot of us have this issue and we 100% don’t have DND or focus on?

my mom doesn’t get any notification sounds, but it’ll still appear on her screen. It’s been like that for 6+ months with no fix. What is your suggestion for the 30 other people having the same issue on this thread alone??

For the last year I was able to have Focus off but still use the scheduling time of turning off my phone in the DND section. All other focus was turned off. It worked great. No isuue. Then the last update. The one prior to 15.2. That was when everything changed. Now I finally got the message to go away yesterday, so I turned on the setting for 10 PM till 5 AM.

Well today at 10 AM my message that I was silenced came on a a friends phone that wee were texting. So not only does it work but it can't read time either. The software is a complete failure. So many people once you get talking about this in Facebook or other media have this issue.

So sad!

My issue is not even getting any notification at all! If I text her phone, it doesn’t beep or vibrate. The notification will be on her screen, but it won’t light up until I hit the unlock button. Like it doesn’t light up when I text and it’s placed on the table. So there’s zero indicator she’s gotten a text, so she misses them often bc she picks her phone up when it rings, which makes the preview notification disappear. It’s acting like DND/Focus is on, but I’ve literally gone into every setting and turned it off. I even tried toggling it off under “messages” and switched it to kot allow messages to access focus information

she does get the sound and vibration on her Apple Watch. Those are the only 2 devices linked to her iCloud.

Im having the same problem it says my gf has notifications silent but when i go on her phone shes does not have me on dnd and iv tried everything to fix it and i cant figure it out its so frustrating😤

Here’s what I did to turn it off. I had the same issue. Turned all focus on. Messages in settings. And focus in settings. Turn on do not disturb. Leave on for about 15 min. Then turn each one off. I had to do it twice for it to work. But try that. It finally turned off for me.

Beyond frustrated I have turned off the DND I have deleted the sleep focus I’ve restarted the phone I’ve made sure that share the focus is off across all devices nothing is working at this point I’m beginning to think Apple up didn’t check for bugs in this new update because now all of a sudden my husband sees this message at the bottom of our message thread that says I have silenced my notifications when everything is off Apple needs to fix it because I’m about ready to say iPhone is a bad product and take it back to Verizon