What does "notifications silenced" mean in Messages?

It’s back… this seemed to be fixed and now with Thur/ Friday’s update it’s back again. I’m in my sister’s favorites but it shows her “____ has notifications silenced”. This shows to all her contacts. All her settings are correct, she disabled her DND and sleep times across all devices and rebooted and still it shows silenced. Lastly she will still get the messages just shows silenced when it’s not.

recently had the same message pop up on my son’s phone, though no focus or DND was on it was still showing status message.

but easily turned off on his phone (see image).

under the DND setting (can dear for it in setting for quick access) just go in and turn off the option to share focus status. That way it won’t show up.

though when it is turned on, the recipient stills gets all messages, it just solves the actual notifications (like driving mode option.

anyways, hope this helps.

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.

Mine corrected itself when I took my Apple Watch off. When I wear my watch it says notifications silenced on other end of conversations with other Apple phones but when I took off my watch it allowed me to get notification alerts on my actual phone again. 🤷‍♀️ Maybe this helps

The message displayed says that the person you are messaging has notifications turned off for messages. This can happen if they are in Focus mode or if in Settings > Messages they have set messages to Focus On, meaning they do not want to be alerted when a message arrives. If this is on, then Focus affects only messages and not everything else.

Notification off for phone calls is a different situation. Those are turned off if the person has activated Focus, Is in Do Not Disturb mode or it the ringer has been turned off or if volume is set too low.

Jlebowitz, your Mom either has the iPhone in Do Not Disturb (DND) mode on, or she is silencing messages from you specifically. Either way, the messages will go thru but there will be no notification “beep.” There is nothing you can do other than send the message. Don’t feel bad. It’s probably not a slight. I myself put the phone in DND mode at times during the day. Otherwise it seems my iPhone is constantly beeping. I answer messages on my timetable. It’s just something I need for me. Maybe your Mom needs that, too. Or check to see when you are sending messages. I have a certain friend silenced because she is a night owl. (I’m an early bird.) She frequently sends texts well after the time I go to sleep. It used to get me upset until I learned these tricks. Lol … I just give her the courtesy of not responding until the time she is normally up so as not to wake her.

go to Focus Status in settings and toggle Share Focus Status to off. Should fix the alerts sent to your contacts when you text them while your phone is silenced. Fixed the issue for me at least.

It means Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb

It means they’re on dnd . DND means do not disturb!!

That just means she has upgraded her iOS and has used the Focus settings on her device. Most people don't even know why or how this setting is on. Apple made a complicated "Do Not Disturb" setting with "Focus" setting. Not even the apple support knows how to turn it off.

Try going to Settings -> Focus -> Do Not Disturb

from here under Options, do you have Focus Status turned on or off?? If you have Focus Status on it will show this notification silenced on other phones.

Figured out the issue….

settings > focus > click on each focus to see what the scheduled time is. My wife’s phone was scheduled on “do not disturb” from 9:00 am - 7:00 pm and it was annoying us that her “notifications were silenced”. Simple fix was change am to pm so it said 9:00 pm - 7:00 am.

Silenced notification solved. After contacting apple support techs, doing everything online, contacting carrier...no one had answer. Then i found issue myself. Go to text, hit on person it is happening to/with. Hit tiny arrow under name. If shared focus is on, turn it off. I have main focus off, so dont know why this was even on w/contact or the select few this was happening to, and i never set it this way. By turning off from contact, problem solved. Figured out myself, no help from any “support”. Hope this helps others.

I turn it on everyday from 10pm-6am because I don’t want nobody to bother me and my calls won’t come through. It’s easy to turn off in the settings. I love this option for the last past months. Need help I can help you