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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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Sharon_419

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Posted on Oct 12, 2021 7:48 AM

Hi vinnetta208,

Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities.

We understand that you’re seeing a notifications silenced message when messaging a friend in Messages app and we’re happy to help.

It looks like your friend uses Focus on their iPhone. When a person sets up Focus on their iPhone, then you might see a message displayed in the Messages app that says [contact name] has notifications silenced. This means that the person you’re messaging has their notifications silenced. Please note that you can still notify your friend if it’s urgent. Learn more about Focus here: Use Focus on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Best regards.

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Go to Settings>Focus>”Share Across Devices” (OFF) on ALL devices. This will fix your issue.

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Nov 18, 2021 6:44 AM in response to sunskymo

I literally just figured it out yesterday. In th focus setting I had to completely remove and bedtimes and click the DND off. And then restart your phone. I wasn’t getting any calls or texts from anyone INCLUDING MY FAVORITES!! Almost got me in BIG TIME RELATIONSHIP TROUBLE 😤

Nov 23, 2021 10:47 AM in response to vinnetta208

I’m having the same issue. I’ve made sure I have no focus mode on, no sleep mode, no dnd but people keep telling me it says I have “notifications silenced” in iMessage. Tried restarting but nothing seems to fix it.

Nov 29, 2021 12:52 PM in response to Defender50

Just figured my “Notifications have been silenced” issue. When I upgraded the iOS on any of my apple products it allowed sharing on all my devices. If just one of your devices has the focus sharing on then all your devices with the same Apple ID will be silenced with the same DND. You have to check every device that you have with your Apple ID on and make sure every focus is off. This includes your iPhone, iMac, iPad, MacBook, and watch. So stupid! Took me awhile to figure this out and kept finding one of my apple products with it on which blocked my notifications. Hope this helps.

Nkee01

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Dec 4, 2021 4:56 AM in response to Kharden30

I’ve turned all the focus stuff off and restarted my phone, iPads, my husbands phone, and it all still says that I’m silencing notifications. There has to be a bug somewhere. Somehow it got turned on and I didn’t do it. Now the message won’t stop telling people I’m silencing things.

KeyMcQ

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Dec 9, 2021 4:03 PM in response to vinnetta208

If you or whoever it says has their notifications silenced go into your settings, you turn your notifications off completely and then back on again, and it should go away. My sister had this same issue and that’s what she did.

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