Why won't Notifications turn on my iPhone screen

...Why won't Notifications turn on my iPhone screen

I was told that if you have notifications on apple watch then they show there and do not show on iPhone.

Try turning off your watch and see if they now show on iPhone...

If you wear paired watch then the notification will come on watch. If you remove your watch then you will get notification by wake phone screen.

Thank you.

I had the exact same issue with my brand new iPhone 16 pro max. The problem caused by the protection glass on my screen. It was one of these “privacy” glasses that didn’t let the light reach the ambient light sensor. It was as if my iPhone was always turned with the screen facing a table.

Mine was doing the same calls would light up but not notifications, I had a lil crack in my screen protector and I took it off and it started working

I have the same issue with my 14 Pro Max. I had a dead pixel on my OEM screen and the apple store people still tried to charge me to replace the display even though it was under the 1 year warranty and there was no physical damage. I ended up ordering an OEM display that was pulled from another iPhone 14 pro max and swapping it myself. As soon as I replaced the display, notifications stopped making it light up but everything else worked fine. The only thing that I did to make it start lighting up again was turn on "always on display" in settings, which I'm not a big fan of. Now at least when i have this on, it will brighten up to full brightness when i get a notification. This is the only thing i found that "fixes" it. If anyone has another solution please share.

I had to turn notifications off on my iwatch and then notifications worked on my phone without issue.

I removed my screen guard and it worked , it’s back to normal ! Give it a try it worked in my case !

Hey everyone, my dad’s phone was having the same problem - all the settings were correct but a new notification still wouldn’t light up the screen. I did a system restart and that’s fixed it! Hope it helps some of you too

Hello All,

I was having the same issue with my iPhone 14. I have just bought it and I was not getting only the sound notifications, but the notifications were never displayed on the lock screen. I have read most of the posts here, other articles, tones of youtube videos and nothing. However I was able the find the solution myself. Just go to:

Settings -> Home Screen & App Library and set Show in App Library to On. This was set to OFF for me and when I changed it, whenever I got a notification the screen lights up and notifications are being displayed on the lock screen.

Hope this will help.

Mine was doing the same calls would light up but not notifications, I had a lil crack in my screen protector and I took it off and it started working

It’s the sticker you place on the screen for protection. Also called temepered glass I think.

I have posted a reply earlier, but it doesn't appear on the last page. Just in case I will paste here as well:

I was having the same issue with my iPhone 14. I have just bought it and I was not getting only the sound notifications, but the notifications were never displayed on the lock screen. I have read most of the posts here, other articles, tones of youtube videos and nothing. However I was able the find the solution myself. Just go to:

Settings -> Home Screen & App Library and set Show in App Library to On. This was set to OFF for me and when I changed it, whenever I got a notification the screen lights up and notifications are being displayed on the lock screen.

Hope this will help.

I had the same issue, restart your iPhone several times and the notifications will work again.

That was it! It was the Apple Watch. I wish the watch didn’t prevent phone screen from waking up. Thank you for chiming in with the correct solution. You prevented me from losing my sanity tonight. 👏