iPhone not getting text notifications

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.

I legit just bought a brand new IPhone 6S and got it on September 24th 2018. Everything was working perfectly, my first issue was downloading apps that were free but they still wanted some kind of payment information. So I go do so, than it tells me my Apple ID Is associated with to many credit cards, when I’ve only used maybe 3 the most trying to fix this so I can download apps. But someone resolved that for me, and NOW MY ISSUE. I went and did the upgrade device for my phone and I got iOS 12 now, ever since I did that that day all was fine. I went to sleep woke up and I’m not getting alerted, or my texts tone is not going off when I get any text messages. So if I’m not looking at my phone every 5 mins I won’t know I got one until I do see it an it will be the next day or hours after the fact. WHY is it doing this? My side button isn’t turned off to silent, it’s on, I went into settings and messages even re picked different sounds for my phone to go off when I got texts but still not a **** thing! I’m getting upset cuz I just spent $ an bought this phone after 2 years of being stuck with a POS prepaid that had no internet or nothing. So here I go back to my iPhone that I love so much but I’ve never had more problems in my years of having every iPhone. That’s why I NEVER updated the software even tho ppl talk **** and say it’s bad I need to do the upgrade, but look what happens when I do. And I’ve done everything I know and I STILL GET NO SOUND OR ALERTED WHEN I GET TEXT MESSAGES!!!! But phone calls and all else come thru and go off with no issues at all. 😑 ugh.

I’m not getting the notifications from message. I’m getting the nomber Of message on icon but notifications are not getting. I checked the aceess to from lock settings and i also checked the Bluetooth system but not stills getting the notification. Please help me!!!

Same! i have an iPhone 6s plus and lately i have to turn my phone on, unlock it, and go to the homepage and see the messages app with the little number of messages to see that i have a message and i depend on messages, and i've done everything on the internet, do not disturb off, and notification on and still nothing, if you found an answer please let me know!

do you have the apple watch? I had problems until I turned off the ringer on the watch and then I could hear my messages come in again.

also - don't mean to offend - but be sure under settings > Sounds & Haptics you not have the volume "change with buttons" on. Be sure that's off. If you have your music turned down low and that button is on, your phone and messages will be turned too low

This is a problem that has been rattling around for a while and it does not seem that there is any one fix. I feel your pain.

If none of this works, read all the posts here - some of these suggestions work for some people.

I had a serious problem with my new iPhone X Max where no photo programs would pull the photos off. I had to do a factory reset and rebuild from scratch. All the apple "geniuses" said "oh did you try a reboot?"

Have you checked Settings>Notifications>Messages to make sure that you have either Banner or Alert selected as the notification type and that you have sounds enabled there?

Same issue with my 6+