What does "notifications silenced" mean in Messages?

I found it!!! On the text chain. Press on that person’s contact and turn off hide alerts. You’re welcome. Drove me crazy!!

Go into settings then to messages and turn off “Allow access to focus” hope this helps

Open settings, go down to focus, turn off the bottom one, “share across devices”… if they are linked, any device in Do-Not-Disturb (DND) will silence them all.(iphone, ipad, watch, Mac…)

Check IOS version on all Apple devices including Apple Watch and restart them even if they are up to date.

Do Not Disturb = DND

DND = Do Not Disturb

cretotar wrote:

DND = Do Not Disturb

I think, after about 30 people answering that, the person who posed the question gets it.

Go to settings; then to PRIVACY & SECURITY; then clicked on… FOCUS

THEN goes to Focus status , shared with messages .. turn OFF. That eliminates Messages are Silenced!!!! Best wishes.

I believe that in most vehicles, activating the apple carplay feature will also turn on focus mode on iPhones. I have experienced this issue with my partner (allegedly).

Same here. I’ve restarted my phone, my husband restarted his…can’t figure it out. I had focus on and turned everything off. I didn’t even know it was turned on to be honest. Even after removing all settings it’s still saying that but I still get notified.

My wife constantly says her phone says my phone has notifications silenced, and when we test it, the notifications come through loud and clear. I don’t have Do Not Disturb on, my mute toggle is off, my Focus settings are all off. I don’t understand and it’s really frustrating us because there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop my phone telling my wife (and who knows who else) that I’m not taking their messages.

I had this same problem too. To fix (at least temporarily) I turned Focus on, then turned it off. I noticed that it said this status will sync across devices, so just for good measure I toggled this (turned it on then off again) on all my connected devices.

Same exact issue as everyone else in here.

I changed every Focus setting within Sleep and Do Not Disturb to “Focus Status: Disabled”. Restart. Still says ‘notifications silenced’ in iMessage.

Toggled off “Share across devices”. Restart. Still says ‘notifications silenced’ in iMessage

Within DND and Sleep settings, added ‘Allow Notifications’ for Messages App. Restart. Still says ‘notifications silenced’ in iMessage

literally nothing works to remove my contacts thinking I am forever on Notifications Silenced. So annoying. My job has people contacting me frequently and it’s making people think I’m avoiding them or not getting their messages in a timely manner. Apple, please fix this.

I’ve tried everything under the sun. Toggle on and off. Off then on then off again. All devices. Same for under messages - focus. Restarted all devices. Deleted text messages and started new. For some of us it doesn’t matter what we do, it still says it. I hope apple figured out a fix. I’ve deleted all the other focuses it added and while I can’t delete dnd, I can’t turn things any more off/on/off than I have for every combination and device I can think of. I’m just tired of answering texts from people “why are you silencing my messages?” And then I explain the issue just for them days later to ask why it’s still doing it. Please. Someone fix this. 😂😡😵‍💫

I have the same issue with my wife's phone recently. When I text her, I get the same message you listed. We have been through every setting in her phone and mine and see no differences in settings between our two phones and others that text her without getting the message. She does seem to be getting the notifications of my texts right away though.