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We rely on notifications to stay informed about vital app updates, like incoming messages. It can be frustrating when your iMessage notifications are not working on iPhone, especially when anticipating crucial updates. Fortunately, the issue is often temporary, and several quick fixes exist to solve the problem.
Several people are facing issues related to iMessage notifications. If you, too, are not notified of new incoming iMessage or SMS and are missing important texts from friends, family, and businesses, let me help! Here are some helpful solutions to successfully fix the issue of iMessage notifications.
The first step you’d want to take is to ensure that iMessage is enabled. This might be turned off if you recently transferred to a new iPhone, swapped a new SIM card, or performed a factory reset on your device. To check:
It’s possible for a bug or glitch to cause Messages to malfunction. Usually, force quitting the app and opening it again would fix the issue.
Just go to the app drawer and swipe up on the Messages app.
Placing your device on Silent mode automatically turns off sounds and audio, which might be the culprit behind you not hearing any audio notifications for your messages.
If you use the same Apple ID to sign in on your other devices, enabling Focus Mode on your other devices will also enable Focus Mode on your iPhone. If you don’t want the Focus Mode on your other Apple devices to affect your iPhone, you can disable Share Across Devices. To do this:
You might’ve accidentally turned off the app’s notifications if you do not see any iMessage notifications on your iPhone Lock screen or Notification Center. To turn it back on:
Check if Alerts are turned on. To make sure you won’t miss any messages, you can tick all Lock Screen, Notification Center, and Banners on.
If you notice that you’re not receiving notifications from specific individuals, check your contact settings and see if their individual notification alerts are disabled or muted.
If you have muted conversations but still want to be alerted whenever you get a mention, you can enable Notify Me. Head to Settings → Messages → Toggle on Notify Me.
Filter Unknown Senders is a feature that blocks unknown numbers, basically everyone who isn’t on your contact lists, from sending you messages. This can be a problem if someone you know uses a different number or if you forget to save their number on your device.
To turn off this feature:
Having a Bluetooth device paired to your iPhone will cause text alerts to go to that device instead of your iPhone speaker.
If the problem is limited to specific contacts, it’s possible that you accidentally set your contact’s custom text tone to none.
Are you still receiving messages and message notifications on your other Apple devices but not on your iPhone? This may be because of Message Forwarding. The feature lets your iPhone messages be sent on other devices signed in to your iMessage account. Turning it off may fix the problem. To do so:
If nothing works, resetting all settings might help. Resetting all settings will wipe out all settings, including your Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and VPN configurations. But don’t worry. It will leave all your personal data untouched.
Wrapping up…
Most of the time, iMessage notifications are not working on iPhone due to an incorrect setting related to muting specific conversations but not others. Fortunately, iPhone lets you hide or mute alerts for some conversations while keeping others active. We hope one or the combination of the above solutions fixes your problem.
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Rachel, an experienced Apple technology writer since 2021 and a long-time user since 2003, began her journey with a silver iPod Classic. Currently, she owns an array of modern Apple gadgets. At iGeeksBlog, her expertise shines through in the crafting of comprehensive how-to articles, informative guides, and well-curated roundups.
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Thanks for the helpful tips! I was really struggling with my iMessage notifications not coming through, and your solutions worked perfectly. I appreciate the detailed steps you provided. Keep up the great work!
Great tips! I was struggling with my iMessage notifications for days, and your step-by-step guide helped me fix it in no time. Thanks for sharing!