What does "notifications silenced" mean in Messages?

Do not disturb

“do not disturb”

DND = Do Not Disturb in Focus or accessories.

Do Not Disturb...

It’s do not disturb which means notifications are silenced and certain apps depending on your setting for that focus

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

Do not disturb

Do Not Disturb.

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 😤

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.

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.

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.

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.

Possible fix for those still having issues. I was having this issue with my spouse. I tried everything recommended in this thread and in others. I checked her status from my son's iPad and realized the "notifications silenced" message seemed to be specific to me. I did not see the same message when trying to message my spouse from my son's iPad.

Here's what I did:

1. Went to messages on my spouse's phone (the phone giving the "notifications silenced" message). I went to our message thread. She had me pinned at the top of her messages. I long pressed my picture and toggled "hide alerts" on and then off again. It was already in the off position, but I toggled it anyway.
2. I unpinned our message thread, I swiped our thread to the left while viewing all messages and toggled the alert icon (bell) on and off. Again, it was not on or silences but I toggled it on/off again anyway. This is probably the same as hiding alerts in step one above, but I was trying everything at this point.

After doing this, the "notifications silenced" on my wife's phone went away. I did not restart any devices. I'm not sure exactly how long it took as I stepped away for a few minutes but this did it for me.

Hope this helps.

I have just noticed the same problem. I checked to make sure Focus was turned off, and it was. I restarted my phone and it appeared to fix it for now. We will see in the future. Sounds like a bug in iOS.