Notifications not working after iOS 17 Update

No I do not have an Apple Watch. I didn't even know about this update until my iPhone 11 stopped No Caller ID notifications, not good when the NHS and most medical agencies in the UK uses this format to call patiences. I ended up missing an important medical phone call because of it.

Not receiving Gmail notifications on iphone and apple watch. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Gmail app daily which is ridiculous and that works for a few hours. I have also turned off both devices and back on again. This is very annoying to have spent so much money on these devices and not to be able to receive Gmail notifications. What is going on?

After the Gmail app updated to newest version, and also after turning off my iPhone (first) and Apple Watch and turning back on, I can happily report I am getting my Gmail notifications. Thank goodness!! It has been two days now, and I am STILL receiving them! Hooray!!!

Spoke too soon. I said earlier this morning in post after Gmail was updated to latest version and after turning phone and watch off and on I had been receiving Gmail notifications for two days. Well, I jinxed myself. Stopped working again around 10:30am. This is absolutely unbelievable!

Thanks for this info about the iwatch taking precedence over the phone.

why Apple thought this was a good idea is beyond me.

it should be OUR choice where we want sound not theirs.

bad show Apple

I did find a site that explains it and gives a work around. But the work around comes at the expense of lots of other stuff not working which they explain in the article . Come on Apple gives us the choice of sound on watch or phone or both.

https://techwiser.com/how-to-get-sound-notifications-on-both-iphone-and-apple-watch/

This was posted a couple of years ago. Why on earth did they change it

Posted on Dec 9, 2021 8:54 AM

Hi Abbyherrmann,

Thanks for participating in the Apple Support Communities. We understand that you can hear your iPhone ringing while wearing your Apple Watch. What you've noticed is normal behavior. When your iPhone ringer is turned on, you will hear it ring even if you're wearing your Apple Watch. To silence your iPhone, you will need to turn the ringer off.

silencing the phone is an easy fix. How do you get the ring on both???

haven’t been able to wear my watch since Xmas. 😫

Go into the watch app on your phone, look for and open passcode, look for and turn OFF wrist detection.

Worked for myself and my wife's phone and now getting audible sms notification on phone and vibrate sms notification on watch at same time. Also works when phone is locked.

Go into the watch app on your phone, look for and open passcode, then look for and turn OFF wrist detection.

Sorted the problem out for both myself and my wife's phone (and watch) - and works with phone locked/screen not on.

Already posted this but trying to link this with the most recent post so apologies for repeat posts, but :

Go into the watch app on your phone, look for and open passcode, then look for and turn OFF wrist detection.

Sorted the problem out for both myself and my wife's phone (and watch) - and works with phone locked/screen not on.

Hope it works for you too.

I purchased an Apple Watch in December. I just tried turning the watch off as Damianfromvancouver suggested, and Messaging works normally. When I turned the watch back on, my iPhone 13 Pro Max iOS 17.3 will not display or sound or show alerts on the Lock Screen. I've never had this issue before I added the Apple Watch Utra 2 to the mix.

The only way I have gotten my iPhone 13 Pro Max to resume normal Messaging is to turn off the watch. Bluetooth has no effect with messaging in my situation. There are so many people with this same question... (Google Search has About 834,000,000 results (0.39 seconds). I think there are about the same amount of suggestions on how to fix the problem, but nothing has worked for me except for turning off the Watch.

Had exactly the same problem and tried everything (focus settings, sound settings, notification settings, soft restart, hard restart etc) but no change.

Spent a good few days looking at and trying so-called solutions and nothing worked.

Then found a suggestion from some time back, tried it, and it actually worked and has sorted this issue out for both my phone and my wife's - it didn't involve switching off bluetooth as some posts suggest, and agreed, not a sensible thing to do.

We have different version iPhones and different series apple watches, but both phones running 17.3.

I have no idea why this worked but it has for us and we haven't lost or dropped any functionality from either the phone or watch other than "wrist detection" whatever benefit that gives...

Can someone out there just try what I've already posted as I'm curious to know if my wife and I have just been "lucky", or if this does indeed help a lot of the community.

All we did was turn OFF wrist detection (in passcode) in the watch app on your phone.

Do you have it turned on in Whatsapp settings and in iphone settings?

Do you have an Watch ?

Is any Focus active?

Ringtones can no longer be used as Alert tones, whether home made m4r or purchased, Only tones purchased as Alert tones.

Custom m4r can still be dragged in as Ringtones.