What does "notifications silenced" mean in Messages?

Do not disturb

Do not disturb

Do Not Disturb

DND is do not disturb. It’s a setting to prevent your phone interrupting your sleep so it silenced all notifications during certain hours including messages and phone calls.

Have you upgraded to the iOS 15.1.1 recently? If you have you need to check all your devices that use your Apple ID and make sure the dumb "Focus" settings are disabled. More importantly check to make sure the "Share Across Device" is off. If any of your devices have the "Share Across Device" on, all devices with the same Apple ID will have the notifications silenced.

Okay so another possible temporary fix until we get a bug update, in the texts that are being silence you can go into the contact card area and toggle off ‘share focus status’ that should help some hopefully. My issue just started today and I’ve had so many people call me out on it or just not text me. So frustrating!

HANNAH_TAPIA

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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

You said it, which is why I said to you silent mode.

FYI, all my focus settings are set to off, Do not disturb, personal, work, driving has been deleted along with sleep. Each individual contact is set to allow notifications. Messaging in settings is set to allow notifications.

Sorry if I exaggerated the number but this isn't the only thread or forum I have read trying to fix the issue. I have even had my phone side by side with another iPhone 13 running 15.2.

His phone shows my "set to silence notifications" message with all our settings 100% set the same. Toggling on/off. Signing in and out of iCloud and rebooting etc. changes nothing. Some said the issue was fixed in other threads only to to return and say it was back.

This is likely a bug with Focus, but not all are having it.

I hear every notification for messages that come in, including those who say they see the message I am set to silence notifications.

Also in the OP it shows Vinneta208 in SMS mode so he would not likely see that message as it isn't in iMessage mode. But I do not know this for fact it doesn't show in SMS mode. (Need to get beside my buddy with his iPhone 13 and check it). It does show up in the screen grab up but Molly iMessaged him. He never commented again.

I had the same problem. In the messages between me and my wife it showed she had notifications off but do not disturb functions were turned off. I went into her settings under focus and it had “personal” and “work” focus areas that said set up. I set them both up and then deleted them then restarted her phone. After that the silence was gone and the issue was resolved! Not sure if it was a coincidence but it worked for me.

Scratch that one. You have to go to focus and press + button. Set up the ‘Personal’ menu. Ensure the allowed people are in there that you don’t want to get a notification silenced. Select everyone if you want notifications from everyone. Doesn’t matter if it ‘Personal’ is toggled on or off your contacts must be in here or they will get the notification they are silenced. It’s annoying you can’t select them all. Do NOT delete the Personal setting just toggle it to off if you don’t use the Do not disturb settings for it. If you delete the Personal setting the issue will come back, it can take a few minutes to return. It appears the personal setting for whatever reason is working regardless of it being switched on or off. Something Apple will have to fix in future updates. Currently 15.2 still has the issue.

It happened to me after updating to iOS 15.3. This is what I did:

1. Click on Settings
2. Go to Focus
3. Click on on "Do Not Disturb". By Default this will be turned off. It did show turned off me. I clicked on it to Turn it on and then turned it off. That was it! So it is a glitch, and this is the workaround that worked for me. Hope it helps other :-)

I had this problem as well. I had a “notifications are silenced” from one individual. I checked their settings/notifications and focus (DND) and they were all set to off. So I had them delete their personal focus (even though it was off) and then re-add it. This fixed the error. I no longer see “xxx’s notifications are silenced” in my iMessage.

I was experiencing this same issue.

I turned on my sharing across devices and turned it back off and the problem was resolved.

If that doesn’t work, make sure your focus is entirely set up and try again.

If it’s still happening it’s probably another Apple device that has focus sharing on

I found a solution for the notifications silenced after trying all the others.

Go to the conversation with the person who sees the silenced notification in messages.

Click on the photo

Toggle the Share Focus Status ‘off to on’

I don’t know if anybody still needs help with this issue. I found a way to eliminate the silenced notification message. After going to settings and turning off Focus on all the devices associated with my Apple ID, i kept on getting the same message. It wasn’t until I went to settings, scroll down to messages, and turned on (allow messages to access) Focus. I think this allowed messages to read my settings for Focus (which was at this point turned off).

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 .