Alerts do not sound when I receive a text message.

These suggestions have already been applied and I still don’t have text alert sounds. This is a random issue that I was having with my 6s plus and now my new 8 plus. This was happening before I got my Apple Watch. Very frustrating that Apple doesn’t answer the issue with a solution!

I have an SE running 11.4.1, and I have the same problem. My text message alerts come through fine if Bluetooth is disabled but I don't consistently receive them if it's enabled.

I haven't found any other work-around and hope that Apple provides a resolution soon.

my iphone 7 would sometimes give a text alert and sometimes not. i discovered it was contingent on the contact person texting. i tried all the suggestions on many websites for the last month or more. someone just taught me that if you go to the screen of texts from a person whom you are not getting alerts from and look at the very top of the screen.

at the top of the text thread screen you should see the contact name and/or phone number. click or touch the contact name or number at the top of the screen and the top contact screen will expand down. when it expands down you should see three options to click on: audio, facetime, and info. click on 'info'. another screen will open. you should see the contact's name again and under that is: "Send My Current Location" and under that is: "Share My Location" and under that is "Hide Alerts". i had "Hide Alerts" set to the 'on' position (the on position is when the button is slid right.) i slid the "Hide Alerts" button to the left and turned it off and now i get text alerts. forgive me if this is too elementary but i find a lot of advice is a little too vague.

I had the same problem with my wife new iPhone not getting text alerts from me.

I checked all the setting and could find nothing wrong. but I have managed to get it sorted and this is what I found.

When to receive the text message go to messages and you will see the new message there. Next to the senders profile picture there is a little blue dot that looks a bit like a half moon. Press and hold this and it will open a window and there you will see a green slider button. Slide this across close the window and this hopefully will sort the problem.

I also had the same problem, turned out to be the “Letscom” fitnesses Tracker watch. Same problem as with the “Fitbit” tracking watch. If the watch is connected by Bluetooth and “binding“ then all audio sounds will not work. So, you can either get audio notifications or you can track your fitness via the watches, but not both until Apple fixes the conflict.

I have a iPhone 7 that now stopped with all sounds on alerts that is not for calls. Have tried everything in this thread and it does not help.

Any clue what to do? Does a full system reset help? Is it worth trying?

My text alerts suddenly started to work again on it's own. I was not interested in resetting my phone. One suggestion I read was under settings; turn off the Phone Notification and then turn it back on. Don't know if that was the solution or not. Very annoying glitch.

If I leave my Apple Watch on the charger the notification on my phone work as normal, as soon as I put the watch on the phone notification stop working. I hate the idea of not wearing my watch, but text notifcation are much more important to me. Wish this would get fixed soon.

Yes

see my reply to the original poster.

I have an iPhone 6s with same problem. I have tried the fixes suggested multiple times with no success. Apple software needs fixing for sure.

Yes! I have the watch and my iPad paired to my iphone7

I am not getting sound alerts in messages (texts) on iPhone 7 & ipad air. Was answering question that asked if they were mirrored. Tried everything but no alerts

Can not get Iphone 8 to sound when text messags

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When I removed my bluetooth headset from Beats, then the notification started to come again as they should... Now the question is if I can pair the them again or not