What does "notifications silenced" mean in Messages?

sjsdoc wrote:

Apple Watch

Many people have talked about checking all devices. I have gone over my iphone, ipad and macbook air multiple times without success fixing this problem. Then looked at my watch for the time and saw the moon at top of it. Somehow I had turned on the DND on Apple watch and it silenced everything. So dont forget checking your Watch also.

I'm not sure why you're responding to me. I do not have a problem with Focus or DND.

TNANK YOU! This WORKED after trying EVERYTHING else. You helped me discover that since my wife's thread was pinned, I could not see that I had notifications from her silenced. Once I unpinned the conversation I could see that I needed to toggle her status. You are a lifesaver.

That’s not the problem. The problem isn’t that we see their status, the problem seems to be that something is “wrong” on their or your end, or possibly both ends. Essentially, you are just hiding the problem. And preventing others from knowing if you are actually on DND or not.

I had the same problem, but I managed to figure that out what you have to do is go to settings, and then click on do not disturb and in that you must’ve turned on the every day schedule focused on, you will have to delete that and then go back to your message if it says the same notification saying it’s silent get out of your message turn off your phone turn it back on and you should have it gone. So when that day is in blue meaning it will say that the focus on that days is on so tap it, so yeah shows gray not blue and then go back to your message to see if it’s gone and if it’s still not gone turn off your cell phone and turn it back on and it should be gone. Hopefully this helps.

Sorry for my previous message it worked for a few minutes and then I had the same problem but I think I just figured it out 100% if you have a laptop check that do not disturb on your laptop your laptop I have a Mac air on the upper right there’s two buttons Top and bottom right next to the next to the search glass between Siri do you have a window like that and on the left-hand side you will have the do not disturb click on that and on the right there’s another do not disturb switch you where you can toggle left or right underneath that you have apps that that’s running through the on do not disturb. And on the bottom of that there’s a plus and a minus sign minus all of them and if you have anything under the do not disturb on the left, like personal smile, work delete it. also on the right hand side you should see options. Click on it and allow calls and text from everyone. I don’t know how this happened but I manage to get it undone. I hope this helps.

This is of the problem I’m having, and I’ve had it periodically prior to focus being around. It just shows the silenced icon. It doesn’t have any verbiage it’s not sending any verbiage. It’s a setting on my phone around that contact and I don’t know how to get rid of it. On the subject of focus, I can’t stand it. I wish apple would go back to the “do not disturb” method of silencing the phones during certain hours. Focus is overly complex for what it’s usually used for, not intuitive, not user friendly.

KK705Main wrote:

This is of the problem I’m having, and I’ve had it periodically prior to focus being around.

The notice that is the subject of this thread didn't exist before Focus was introduced.

It just shows the silenced icon. It doesn’t have any verbiage it’s not sending any verbiage. It’s a setting on my phone around that contact and I don’t know how to get rid of it.

It sounds as if you have a different problem. But, it's not clear to me what you mean by "a setting on my phone around that contact". What setting?

On the subject of focus, I can’t stand it. I wish apple would go back to the “do not disturb” method of silencing the phones during certain hours. Focus is overly complex for what it’s usually used for, not intuitive, not user friendly.

You can do exactly that with Focus. Go to Settings>Focus>Do Not Disturb. Do not put any contacts or apps in "Allow notifications from". Do not do anything with "Customize Screens". Go to "Set A Schedule", tap "Add Schedule" and set up your hours during which you do not want to be contacted. Do not select anything for "Smart Activation".

Delete all of the other Focus profiles except for DND. Focus will now work exactly the way it did before.

It’s been done to me before and actually it happened to me again today. Whoever you were trying to contact if it says that it means that they silenced any communication with your phone specifically. In my humble opinion.

Thank you so much, k_p95, this worked for me!

• 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.

Minimize distractions and get things done with Android’s Focus mode...

Focus mode is available on all devices that currently have Digital Wellbeing and parental controls settings, including new phones launching with Android 9 and Android 10. 

https://blog.google/products/android/android-focus-mode/

All focus settings have been cleared, and both default settings are turned off. I’ve disabled focus in messaging and restarted my phone, yet the “notifications silenced” message persists. It appears to be a significant glitch.

Having the same issue…

i followed all guides how to turn it off but still getting same stupid message…

I tried everything mentioned and my wife’s phone still does it. Matter of fact mine started doing it now. This is sad Apple. Please look into this and fix the issue.

Dungeons and dragons

This works and makes sense. Thanks!