Hide Alerts not working for my group chat on iPhone

I did the iOS 18.3 update yesterday. Hide alerts is broke on any group chat that has a mix of iOS and Android users.

18.3.1 didn’t fix this.

I've been having this same issue for the past few months on group chats that includes Android users. Sometimes "hide alerts" does it's job... I dont get alerts. But most of the time it doesnt.... I still get alerts. It's a bit annoying. Hopefully Apple fixes it soon.

I stumbled on something that seems to correct this. I found a very old post that talked about a separate setting that you can get to from your list of messages, not within the problem group message. If you click on the problem group from that list there is another ‘show alerts/hide alerts’ toggle. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but mine is currently saying ‘show alerts’ followed by a bell. Then when I go into the message and look at settings there I have ‘hide alerts’ with the slider moved to on. Why these two settings don’t mesh up I have no idea, but I have had two days now where the mute is back to working.

And today it’s back to screwed up… something about the 18.3 iOS is flipping these switches off 😒

I have the same problem. And it doesn’t matter if you use the hide alert toggle or slide to the left to “hide alert”.

I’ve tried resting my phone and hiding alerts for each person it doesn’t matter. It seems to work randomly on some messages within the chat.

Same here! Apple - please help.

TickedOffiPhoneOwner wrote:

My hide alerts isn’t working for group chat. I’m not sure what update it was or if it’s just a random glitch, but it hides alerts for individual chats. This started happening within the last month. I have an iPhone 14 and it is updated with 18.3 so it would be updated.

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No glitch nor is it an IOS issue, all of my group chats are still muted.

How are you muting the group threads?