iOS 26.1 – Notifications stopped working again after 10 hours of updating

Yes, I have Apple Watch, but can't see what difference this would make - I only wear my Watch when going out (for Apple Pay), the rest of the time it's docked and this wouldn't affect iPad either that has nothing to do with my Watch.....?

I've already consulted the Magic 8-Ball and a defrocked psychic; my standards are currently lower than a limbo bar in H*ll, so yes, I'll try anything

I'm sorry you had to go through this, but your app data, should still be in your apps, even if you had to download them from the cloud, assuming you are using the same Apple Account as you were previously. Plus any data you synced with iCloud, such as photos, notes, messages, etc., will redownload from the cloud, again using the same Apple Account.

Clearly something went wrong with your update. But this is not the case for millions upon millions of other users. What went wrong, we can't know.

At least you've got it sorted and I feel bad you have to reconstruct things on your iPhone. I had to do that once. It's not fun, but then anything can go wrong on occasion.

Unfortunately that doesn't work for some apps that do not store their data in the cloud - it's only local on-device storage (health data), so will have to start again, but nothing I can do about that now. No Christmas card for Tim this year....

Since yesterday WhatsApp seems (finger crossed) working again correctly. I tryed everything but the change doesn't seem related to anything as I had stopped trying since a few days before. Spotify instead is still not delivering notifications of podcast releases.

I do. Exactly the same. Settings etc. checked and rechecked as above. Not only that, notifications on the watch have become erratic. Often I look at the phone and have multiple messages and none of my 3 i-things have made a noise or buzz of any kind. Very strange.

I know this is an older thread, but I wanted to share a similar experience with notification issues. After a device failure, I recently upgraded my iPhone13 Pro to an iPhone 17 Pro that came with iOS 26.1. I restored from backup, and everything seemed to be working well. My husband upgraded his iPhone 13 Pro to an iPhone 17 Pro at the same time.

My 12-year-old uses a Libre 3 Plus continuous glucose monitor.  The primary Libre app runs on

an Android phone that stays connected to our home WiFi. To receive her high and low glucose alerts, my husband and I use the LibreLinkUp app on our iPhones. Before iOS 26, notifications (banner,

sounds, etc.) worked reliably. After upgrading our phones (running iOS 26.1), although the app was receiving cloud data and seemed to be working fine, we just stopped receiving any notifications. We did not realize these critical notifications weren't occurring until we discovered (by accident) that we had missed a critical low blood glucose alert. Fortunately, we were at home at the time, and the loud alarm on her primary Android device woke us up. Both iPhone 17 Pros remained silent. At first I assumed a setup or connection issue with the Libre apps; however, this has proven not to be the case.

Troubleshooting so far (that hasn’t worked):

+Restarted the iPhone and apps multiple times, restarted WiFi and Bluetooth on the primary device

+Deleted and reinstalled the LibreLinkUp app on the iPhone

+Checked iOS app and global notification settings for LibreLinkUp (Allow Notifications on, banners allowed, sounds enabled, Notification Summary OFF, etc.)

+Reviewed Focus/Do Not Disturb settings to make sure theywere not silencing alerts (LibreLinkUP overrides these settings anyway)

+Removed my child’s LibreLinkUp invitation and set it up again from scratch to completely rebuild the connection

+As a workaround and test for the issue, I also tried a third-party diabetes app (Gluroo) that reads data from LibreLinkUp apps on our iPhones and uses its own alarm thresholds. I do get banner alerts from that app, but I still do not get audible alerts even though sounds are enabled. App FAQs indicate known iOS notification issues. I see that someone in this thread recommends not restoring from iPhone backup (which would be a difficult and lengthy project) but the workaround app was not a part of the backup, and notifications are still not working

properly.

Needless to say, reliable app notifications are extremely important for our family. If anyone has found a configuration or workaround that restores reliable audible notifications for LibreLinkUp (or similar apps) on iOS26.1, I would really appreciate the details. Since notification issues appear to be a well-known bug impacting iOS 18x+, I ask Apple to please take this seriously and post any updates asap. Thank you.

Could we please not deflect from the issue at hand? This is impacting all 3rd party apps. As a result, this is very much an Apple problem.

Currently, this is impacting everything: Outlook, Teams, Authenticator, Slack, Duo, PagerDuty

Currently, I am not able to use my phone for work at all. Fortunately, I was able to discover this issue before it hit me in PagerDuty. I have had to switch over to Android in the meantime.

I heavily regret upgrading to iOS 26.

Updating to iOS 26.2 final public release didn't change anything, sono apps still don't give notifications at all, others are delayed, WhatApp started to notify messages again but WA incoming calls are notified only as missed. I start to feel the system unreliable. iPhone SE (2022)

Thought I have with nothing to go on, is I'm wondering if an actual new phone with a restored backup will show the same problem or ended up working? It *seems like a software only problem, though maybe some hardware dependencies have changed enough to allow this to happen? No idea, seen no feedback and just trying to think it through.

I'm just so offended by the 'blow it all away' mentality, that's not problem-solving. That's an excuse. I've maintained the same configuration (apps and data) from backups/restores to the next generation since iPhone 3. Now throw away the baby with the bath water?

same thing for my iPhone.

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Same problem here. IPhone SE 2022

Iphone 17 pro, activated and updated on 11/13 same issue

has Apple acknowledged yet and offered a fix?

Same here tried removed mdm profile

reset all settings

hard restart phone

but still same issue