After iOS 15.1 Upgrade, No Notification Sounds

Yesterday I updated my iPhone 8 to iOS 15.1 and now I get no notification sounds on my phone or Apple Watch after I receive a notification. I checked the "silent" switch on my iPhone, and it's not turned on. My Notification settings are the same as they were before I updated when I heard notification sound.

I check the Notifications settings for Messages, and they are turned on with a sound assigned to the notifications. But whenever I get a message, I don't hear a sound even though I see the notification banner on my iPhone home screen.

So how do I get the notification sounds to work?

iPhone 8

Posted on Oct 26, 2021 11:07 AM

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ColleenD1

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Posted on Oct 27, 2021 10:20 AM

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!

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