iOS11 notifications disappearing from lock screen

Hi,

I’m using an iPhone 8 running iOS 11.0.2 and I’m finding that text message notifications are disappearing from my lock screen. For example, I received a message at 4.45pm and it appears on my lock screen, however if I don’t open it and leave it to deal with later, it has disappeared from my lock screen (phone has not been unlocked since). It is also not showing in my notification centre. Has anyone else found this or does anyone know a fix for it?


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Posted on Oct 7, 2017 11:13 AM

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Posted on Nov 8, 2017 6:22 AM

I don't believe this is the case here. Originally this was my thought as well, and I went through several troubleshooting steps to determine the issues. I have almost all notifications turned off, except for messages, and mail (the ones I notice the issue on). I don't use live wallpapers, I have all motions turned off, and I don't use night shift or anything else that affects the lock screen. I even tried turning off my apple watch completely, as well as control centre access from the lock screen. Finally, I did a complete factory reset of my phone, did NOT restore from back-up, and it was still happening with only default apple apps installed. None of these steps solved the issue.

The ONLY thing that has fixed it for me is turning off "show in history". This leads me to believe there is a bug with notifications being stored in history which causes them to disappear from the lock screen after a period of time.

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Oct 20, 2017 6:55 AM in response to Hannahxjayne2330

I’m having this issue as well. I’ve tried changing banners from temporary to persistent but being “persistent” just got on my nerves. I’d be in the middle of something and it wouldn’t go away when my phone was unlocked. However, the notification still went away from my lock screen almost as fast as I received the message but sometimes the message stays, or it’ll keep one message and clear others. Very frustrating! I have a 6S and wondered if it was just this phone because there’s been other issues, too. I went to bed last night with one message on my screen then woke up to nothing on my lock screen and had 3 more messages.

Oct 24, 2017 5:31 PM in response to Hannahxjayne2330

I’m having the same issue, if I don’t swipe into the message notification straight away and leave it sitting there, within minutes it has disappeared. It leaves the little “1” on the messages app but no push notification anywhere. I’ve also had massive glitches with the notification centre where, say I have a Facebook messenger notification, then a couple of Twitter notifications underneath, the Twitter notification directly below the messenger notification will overlap the messenger notification and appear as a twitter notification. So I’ll have the same “Twitter notification” in there twice, but when I swipe to open the one that was originally a messenger notification it will get into messenger even though it appears as a twitter notification. Does that make sense?? It’s driving me crazy.

Nov 7, 2017 1:33 PM in response to masflow81

Me too!! Everything BUT email messages stay on the lock screen for me. I’m running an iPhone X on 11.1.


Also, I’m not getting any News notifications on my iPhone X; they’re showing up in my old iPhone 7 and my iPad Pro, but not my iPhone X. I even wiped my iPhone 7 thinking maybe the notifications were only going to one phone, and that didn’t help.

Nov 8, 2017 5:17 AM in response to Hannahxjayne2330

This issue is still happening to me. I wear my Apple Watch to bed so my notifications also come through on that but just like the phone, there are no notifications in the morning when I check.


APPLE FIX THIS ISSUE ASAP! It’s getting really frustrating when my husband is currently half way round the world and I don’t realize he’s txt me when I’m sleeping 😡

Nov 9, 2017 5:48 PM in response to Hannahxjayne2330

There is no way.
But you're lucky they just disappear.
Mine, I can't even swipe down to access notifications as the whole thing crashes.
I can't even use volume up or down but the home button and touch screen do work.
Only a hard reset takes care of it. But it happens every now and then.
Now with my iPhone 8 plus, I have yet to encounter it. But I do get tons of crashes.


Here's a picture of my 6s. Notice I have no icons up top? It means the whole thing has crashed to a point of no control center, no notification screen, no "search" screen. No swipe left/right.

iOS 11 is just garbage.

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