iPhone not getting text notifications

I’ve had this issue since IOS 11 came out on my old 6s and Apple Watch. Now I have an 8plus and it is the same. What’s worse is I reported it as a bug to Apple in March but got no reply. There are over 5000 people on various boards talking about it. Not going to ditch my watch to get notifications and hands free is required in my state, so I’m not going to disconnect the phone from my truck.

I am so sick of people declaring what a "wonderful fix" it is - just disconnect your watch - hey I fixed the whole problem... bowing and taking such a lot of credit.

No, I will not FIX my Apple iPhone X problem by disconnecting my Apple watch. That is STUPID!!!

I've also been having trouble, sometimes notifications come through without a problem, but sometimes the phone does not alert me. Turning off my bluetooth access is not ideal as I am using Fitbit app to help with weight loss and I need to leave bluetooth on so that it can sync. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I just got the iPhone 7 and love it, except for this one issue.

I had the same problem of not getting notifications for just one person. It took a long time too resolve. Right swoosh on message from this contact. Deselect “Hide Alerts”. Ironically there is no other place to select or deselect this option. It does not show up in properties for this contact.

Me too!!! I finally disabled the 'read receipt' for him because he keeps accusing me of ignoring his texts! I sent him a text this morning and could see he was typing a reply. I x'd out of our message thread and put my phone to sleep and sat and watched it. No alert flashed across my screen, nor was there a notification showing when I went back in to my home screen. Yet my sister sent a text and it came thru with all the bells and whistles. Someone better fix this quickly.

I think so. When the Apple watch is connected it automatically silences alerts on the iPhone. So I disconnected my messages and the alerts on iPhone work. I wish Apple gave me a choice. I want to use customized ringtones, to recognize whose who. The Apple Watch just ‘dings’ all the time. I hope Apple begins to listen more, and allows for more choice.

I bought a new iPhone 6plus three weeks ago was pretty excited never had a iphone. Now I’m irritated and sad . I can’t figure out how to turn my sound on for notifications I have missed important data . I have tried toggling blue tooth, rebooting, going in to all apps and turning sound on . Still nothing . It will vibrate but no alerts. Please help

Worked for me Had no idea about that option to hide alerts A bit too easy to inadvertently shut off alerts for a particular person Apple might put in a final "are you sure" before activating this option Thanks NicFinn

I have almost the same problem running iOS 11.4.1 on an SE. Text notifications appear on the home screen, but there is often no audible alert or vibration if Bluetooth is enabled. The problem occurs if no Bluetooth devices are connected.

If, however, Bluetooth is enabled *and* an audio device is connected, then the audible alert plays on the connected BT device as expected.

I've had the problem for a while now -- seems to have started following an iOS update,.

Ok, so the top pinned answer from uVr4BsveiHdOxXNI worked for me - disabling bluetooth from Settings (not from Control Center) made notifications light up the phone with the ding (as opposed to phone staying off and notification only showing up when activating the phone).

It turns out in my case that the watch was causing this. Turning off bluetooth only worked because my watch was paired with the phone (active bluetooth connection, ofc) and the watch itself was on silent. So the phone was duly delivering notifications to the watch which was silently discarding them. Un-silencing the watch made the ding come up on the watch - but the phone still doesn't get it anymore.

So at this point the question would be whether it's possible to get notifications (with dings) BOTH on the phone and on the watch.

Does anybody have the same problem with ios 12?

Since updating to iOS 12 I have the exact same problem on my iPhone 6S.

When i get a text message, there is no sound until i press the home button. All other notifications work well.

I did a clean install and tried everything, nothing helped :/

I have no watch, BT is disabled, no DND,...

Did you try what I mentioned above?

Reset Network Settings

Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings > Confirm resetting

That worked for me.

Also check your Notifications for Messages. For some reason after the update it switched mine off.

In my case it’s definately no DND Settings or other Settings because after a clean install the text notifications work fine. And after a period of time the just stop working without doing nothing or changing any settings. After 10 minutes of working fine the just stop showing up on the display and i can just see them an hear the tone when im pressing the HomeButton.

OK, here is something.

When i set the iPhone time manualy 2 minutes back, i dont gent any text notifications. Just the badge on the messages icon gets updated.

When I set the iPhone time 2 minutes „in to the future“ the text notifications work as they should... even when the iPhone is locked.

OK, im sorry, that was wrong.

It’s true, that i don’t get any notifications (text messages or iMessages), if the iPhone time is set „in the past“.

If the time is set „in to the future“ sometimes i get notifications, but most of the time not.

Something is definately wrong with Messages and Notification with iOS 12 on an iPhone 6S.

Tested it on another 6S device and same behaviour.