iPhone not getting text notifications

Just fixed this on my 6. There might be two issues, but mine was that I apparently accidentally hit "hide alerts" for a thread. I incorrectly assumed the the crescent moon meant my wife's phone was in DND mode, but it was only the setting for the conversation alerts on my phone.

I personally really dislike the apple store people. They will use a total reset for anything they don't know and because apple calls them 'geniuses' they don't ever want to say they don't know.

Try these:

go to settings > Notifications > Messages > and set the banner to Persistent - you probably have it on Temporary

Allow Notificatios should be ON

Sounds - should be something LOUD

Show on Lock screen ON

Show as Banners ON

also be aware that if you listen to music and have the volume low, check Settings > Sounds - and make sure Change with Buttons in OFF - you can turn your ringer ALL the way UP and still have your music set low. If you have it ON, then turning down the music turns down the ringer of the phone too

Philip says:

1). Connecting the iPhone to a BT device knocks out audio alert tones AND

2). Tones are not transmitted to the BT device

but I have AirPods and I get both ring and text tones through the AirPods which are turned on and working - what screwed it for me was my apple watch - which I LOVE and will not turn off - but since I turned off the ring on the watch, I am not having the problems with bluetooth

It worked!!! Thank you!

Old phone had a notification that it had been too long since the last back up. Did the back up, now it’s fine.

It was especially annoying, since it was only the notifications from my husband that I wasn’t receiving.

Thank you!

There is a workaround for this, but it *****.

Disable Bluetooth in settings (NOT in control center).

I’ve confirmed multiple times on my iPhone X on iOS 11.3.1.

Re-enable it and the notifications go away again.

Apple defect.

So I can choose to either use my Apple Watch or get text notifications.

sad.

One of you must have "Hide Alerts" toggled to the on position. That is what my wife had. It was hiding all alerts when I texted her so her phone did not alert her in any way. She was missing all of my texts. This "feature" can be set per contact/person. For some reason she had it toggled to on for my contact only so I was the only one she was not being alerted for -- put a strain on our marriage! :-) Go to a text message from your wife or on her phone one from you, and click on the circle "i" at the top right. Scroll down and you should see "hide alerts". Make sure it is turned OFF!

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?"

Hello, I got the same thing like you. I just restart my phone and it works, the notification is alive 😀

I had this issue too and found that it was only affecting one of my messages so I deleted the entire conversation and started a new one that started having notifications again.

Very strange. Try the new update 11.0.3. It sorted it out for me.

Turn off wrist detection in the I watch app. Then text sounds will come through on the phone. And the watch will still track you steps and pass along your texts and alerts,

I went into settings-general scroll down to rest click on it and reset settings it doesn’t wipe yours phone

It is my observation that notifications that are not to show on the lock screen (for privacy reasons) are suppressed completely. Under iOS 10 (and earlier), as soon as the iPhone is unlocked, the notification shows up (I use the slide-in-from-top mode for the Banner). Regardless of whether they are set to "Temporary" or "Persistent" (the new terms for the Banner notification), they do not show up unless you also allow them on the lock screen. I consider that to be a bug.

If you are upgraded to ios 11 or higher, check your date& time if it is automatically set or not, If not, go to SETTINGS> GENERAL> DATE & TIME> and tick the "SET AUTOMATICALLY" to ON (GREEN button). Once done, try restarting your phone for about 5 minutes. After that try a "test" text message to one's number so that you can see if it works for you!

I have the same problem like you, my usual time on phone is 10 minutes in advance before updating to ios 11, I haven't encountered this "out of order messaging" and "not receiving notified Text" until I recently updated to ios11, tried so many suggestions from the forum but nothing works, so lately (just this today) I found out that ios 11 requires automated time and date. This works on me, try it. Hope I could help.

The BT device will take the notification eg: an Apple Watch or fit bit is the extension of the device. It takes the notification for the device so you can keep your phone ina pocket or bag and not miss the mess