iPhone 14 Notifications / text sounds not working¡

I have had the same problem now for a few months, and when I read some of these threads, it led me to the upper right drop down menu (charging, signal strength). When I looked at the options, I noticed my airpods were still synced even though I hadn't used them in a day or so. When I disconnected them, my notifications started again. Not sure if that's your issue, but it may help if you use airpods also.

I got mine fixed today at the Apple Store! Two things- 1. Phone won’t ding if you are wearing your watch paired to your phone. Either turn off Bluetooth or put your watch on the charger (or turn it off) and it will work fine. 2. Turns out I had a vpn on my phone and it was causing issues. As soon as we took that off then my notification was audible! I hope this helps you!

I'm having the same problem after upgrading to IOS 16.4 on an iPhone 14; At least with the Messages app. For me, it only fails to make the sound when the screen is locked and Bluetooth is on. If I turn bluetooth off in settings, I get the sound with the screen locked, as usual. I did not have any earbuds or a watch or anything else connected to bluetooth.

I tripped every setting I could find. I was getting vibration but no sound on incoming messages and texts. Finally tried flipping the mute switch on the side of the phone off and then on again. Now all sound is back. Hope this helps someone else.

I may have found a temporary fix. realized today by accident that if you wear your watch but do not enter the passcode ( on watch) the sound notification comes through on your phone. message still appears on watch without sound.

did that make sense? does it work for you?

This has been driving me nuts. I went to settings > Sounds & Haptics, I looked at the Text Tone option, since I was no longer getting text tones, It showed "doorbell" which was my selected tone, however after opening the text tone option, "none" was selected and doorbell was nowhere to be found anymore! IDK what happened to it, as it's still possible to select doorbell for other things such as mail. I then went through all of the options and noticed that the selected sounds for several of them were defaulted to "none". Come on Apple, get it together!

Hi Will. You probably already tried this, but check to see if your dedicated silence button is on. It's the button below the volume keys.

Swipe down top right have at look at focus in control centre and make sure do not disturb is not checked, this fixed issue for me

It’s possible that you solved the problem. in regular settings on IPhone 14 under notifications. Watch notifications was turned off. I checked all of the app notification settings here and many were not as they should be.

my phone is now sounding when I have a text. I am hopeful that watch will chime when phone screen is locked.

Thanks

I don’t think so. I keep the Apple Watch turned off ( just don’t enter the passcode), that way text sounds come thru on the iPhone. they will still come through on the watch without sound and you will still receive phone calls. you will need to enter the passcode if you want to do something else on the watch but it’s not that big a deal. it saved me from missing messages

pmr9 wrote:

Yes yes yes yes It WOrKed !!

yahoo.

just pair and unpair I watch

magic

Glad it got things working for you!

My Iphone 12 pro max is doing the same thing, not getting notifications for some messages then all messages. Turned off my bluetooth completely and started getting message notifications again. Sounds like a software problem Apple has, what's the point in having a Apple watch and phone if you can't use bluetooth

I have been on with support for a couple hours, if you have this problem and you have an Apple Watch this is how they say it is supposed to work because if you have your watch on that is where you’re getting notifications, it’s an extension of your phone, and that is by design. When speaking with the technician, I told him with the same watch, and my previous version of the iPhone that is not how it worked, he tells me that’s how it has always worked. He then told me I could suggest a feature at Apple.com/feature, To suggest the ability to get notifications on your phone when it’s locked if you have your iwatch on. I hope all of you also make that suggestion and maybe we’ll get this fixed!

A lot of suggestions but the challenge is figuring out what may work because it's erratic. I too, have had this many years all the way back to my iPhone X and seem to have tried EVERYTHING. ~1 week in and someone suggested changing the Messages setting on my iWatch away from "Mirror my iPhone" to "Custom". I tried this and it seems to be working. Again, about 1 week so far so we'll see but try this if you haven't yet.

I think I just figured it out. I’ve had this same issue for awhile and Apple support was no help. I turned off “background app refresh” (pretty much just cause Ive tried everything else short of a factory reset) and I’m getting my text notifications now! Hope this helps you guys out as well!