After iOS 15.1 Upgrade, No Notification Sounds

Hi Tom H.,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We understand that you're having an issue with receiving notifications after updating your iPhone 8. We'd like to help.

Have you restarted both your iPhone and Apple Watch since this issue started? If not, go ahead and try that now. It can resolve issues like this on occasion.

Then, from what you've described, it's possible that you have a Focus scheduled that may include Do Not Disturb as part of the plan. Check out this resource to see if that helps:

Use Do Not Disturb on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Let us know how that goes.

Take care!

To update my earlier message. After an online with Apple, I was advised to reset my phone. I did and there was absolutely no change, just a lot of frustration!

However, I noticed that there was no difference on my side mute on/off button and that when I used the volume control button that it was always showing as mute. Usually for me the phone would vibrate when I put the phone into mute mode - but nothing was happening. So, I the mute has somehow been locked on. To rectify the problem, I've enabled AssistiveTouch through Settings>Accessibility>Touch>Assistive Touch. I could then unmute the phone and get the notification sounds back again. Hallelujah!

It isn't optimal - but it has worked for me!

Hey,

i had the same problem. I fixed it by restarting my Apple Watch. After the Apple Watch was out it worked immediately. And when I turned the watch on it continued working.

best wishes

Rebooting did not work for me. I still can't get notification sounds on my iPhone when my apple watch 6 is connected, but get the sound notifications just fine when the watch is disconnected. Funny that when I connect the iPhone to my old watch series 1, the notifications come through just fine.

For all those that since IOS15.1 update with no Email sound notification try this as it worked for me, Settings>Mail>Notifications then scroll to the bottom>Customise Notifications>Alerts to ON.

You have to restart only the watch. This did it for me

I had the same problem. There was one of my contacts that I recently texted that after the new update I wouldn’t receive notifications and the ring wouldn’t chime as well. I went through all my settings and everything was on. Turns out my hide alerts were on for only that one contact and once I changed it it was working again!

Deleting focus help to get back notifications sounds or just turn Sumary on then go to your apps notifications in iPhone settings and select this but first turn off/on notifications in each app within iPhone settings

Turn it off/on I had that too because everything it’s related with the stupid focus seethings

This worked great. Resetting both the iPhone & phone solved the issue. Thank you. What a pain.

Right that is stupid settings that interferes with notifications sound in most third party apps and iOS apps but unfortunately apple didn’t admit it that they screwed with this Focus thing

I have the same issue as Tom H above. I have reset all my sounds. I have gone into Focus to turn off its settings - to no avail. I have rebooted the phone.

Hopefully Apple will sort this issue soon.

BTW, I have an older iPhone SE in good working order, so I'm hoping these upgrades aren't invalidating the use of this phone.

After upgrading I have no sound notifications either, IPhone or IPad. All settings are correct and I’ve tried the customisation advice but mine was already on. I don’t have Apple Watch. I’ve rebooted both and still nothing. Apple - please fix this.

Hi and everyone I know who got that update last night I have the same problem. I have disabled focus, I have checked all of my sounds and notifications, yet I still cannot get a ring when someone calls me, I do not get a notification when someone messages me and when I message them they say that I have turned off notifications. I cannot get my salons back! Please Apple, if you want to fix viruses and bugs, that’s fine but leave everything else alone! I have grown to despise Apple and I’m seriously considering dumping all of our Apple products and having my sister‘s tech friend switch us over so other devices! We spent half our lives trying to figure out how the **** to get our Apple devices working. It’s not funny anymore

Ever since upgrading to iOS 15, my iPhone 11 Pro (which is a brand new device l or so Apple says) and iPad Pro have been screwed up. I’ve tried the solutions in here, and I appreciate them! But my next call is to support, I wanted to look around here first. Because you know that’s the first question they ask, lol!