What does "notifications silenced" mean in Messages?

I’ve been texting with a good friend of mine and all of a sudden at the very bottom of our texting thread it says “🌙 Molly has notifications silenced “. What does this mean? Is she specifically silencing my specific text messages so she doesn’t receive them or the banner doesn’t pop up? She has an iPhone as well and I’ve never seen this message before. My feelings are a bit hurt but I’m not really sure what it means, if someone could explain this to me I would so appreciate it.

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iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 15

Posted on Oct 11, 2021 2:54 AM

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emillywillson246

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Posted on Apr 18, 2024 5:08 AM

2 steps from this guide helped me: What does Notifications Silenced in Messages Mean and How to Disable it? My husband complained to me that I am ignoring his messages while I am in my office. The notification silenced message was appearing to him, first I was totally unaware about this feature. Later when I researched, I found out that a schedule Do not disturb mode was activating between 1pm to 4pm automatically so I disabled it which was by mistake activated and force restarted my phone( i don't know if this step is necessary but I did it ) and thats how I tackled this issue.

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Dec 14, 2021 3:17 PM in response to pfmusician

Nope. The problem is back again!!!!! Signing out of my iCloud account only worked temporarily. Get on the stick Apple. THIS IS ANNOYING!!!!

Dec 15, 2021 12:37 PM in response to vinnetta208

what that means is that on there phone they have it on silent mode , like when you go to sleep they have all the messages on there phone so they dont get distracted

Teebs84

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Dec 15, 2021 1:40 PM in response to vinnetta208

Same issue! On too if this whoever sends me a text message gets a read receipt - I have this turned off and have not ever had it turned on!

APPLE NEEDS TO FIX THIS ASAP!

Dec 15, 2021 7:05 PM in response to vinnetta208

we have turned off EVERYTHING POSSIBLE connected to Focus, Do Not Disturb etc. - No dice. My wife’s phone STILL says her notifications are silenced. This is unacceptable.

Dec 16, 2021 9:53 AM in response to vinnetta208

Mine started doing the same thing all of the sudden and don't know how to fix it. Happened when I updated my phone, chances are she doesn't know it happened just like I didn't.

Dec 16, 2021 10:56 AM in response to gomichaelgo81

Both her and my Focus status is set to off. Still get the message that her notifications are silenced.

Dec 16, 2021 11:09 AM in response to pfmusician

Do you have a screenshot of the toggle you say is off?

sash3rs

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Dec 16, 2021 1:41 PM in response to holgaguy

Do not disturb

deema_as

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Dec 16, 2021 10:07 PM in response to holgaguy

DND = do not disturb

Dec 18, 2021 9:25 AM in response to iJAWs

Not a chance this will help, I have one Apple device. The iPhone 13 with the problem. Had before and after I upgraded to 15.2

Dec 18, 2021 11:28 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Oooops, that was a major mistake on my behalf.

Sorry.

No you didn't say but the person I replied to did. Din't expect somebody unconnected to that to comment on the silent mode in my reply I guess.

Dec 18, 2021 11:34 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

I mentioned the SMS mode as he said it "all of a sudden appeared". It also all of a sudden went from SMS to iMessage at that point when Molly replied.