After iOS 15.1 Upgrade, No Notification Sounds

I updated my IOS to 15.1.2 2 days ago and immediately lost sound for notifications and the phone ringer. I have followed your directions to no avail. I have never used "focus" so it is off (I checked it). I had people starting to panic because they could not reach me (am 76 and housebound). How does this get fixed?

I have been constantly missing time sensitive messages and calls for some time and couldn't figure it out. Why would anyone shut off peoples notifications in an update? That is the stupidest and most irresponsible thing I've seen in a while. I'd be angry about it anyways but then to make it worse the explanation for how to set notifications is HORRIBLE! Who writes them?

"In order to turn notifications on please turn the always default off position in settings option page to list the do not notify alert disabled slider to be placed in the up off/on down position when the button shows no sliders allowed on the persistent banner automatic group messaging siri while hiding notifications when the lock home screen tab is not in the not on position for silent mode which is the default option drop down menu which may not be accessible for all hardware."

Hire some people with common sense please

I also do NOT get sound notifications any longer AFTER updating to 15.1

PLUS, when I open maps in my car, I can hear the directions, BUT when I start ANY podcast, I can see the volume bar moving up and down, but NO SOUND. This is very, very bad.

These are just general instructions. Not useful at all, because of this update we have missed a lot of important notifications.

So frustrating I have missed many important calls and messages since updating and nothing is fixing it!

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

I have the same issue on both phone and watch. Have tried changing the focus settings and restarting. Still not receiving notifications. Missing important messages and calls.

What should I do now?

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

Thank You! that fixed my notification problem!

iPhone XS Max ~ updated to 15.1 and now no text sounds. Tried suggestions. Nothing has worked.

I used to be able to have "flash" when I got text messages... not anymore....?

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

I have no sounds, notification, phone calls, text messages, etc. I’ve tried the turn off,wait,turn on, reset all options, powered off so many times. This is TERRIBLE. APPLE NEEDS TO FIX THIS

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

As you can see in the remainder of this thread, it 'goes' very poorly for us. Perhaps you could revisit this and help us out since your company is obviously the one that screwed it up for everybody.