iOS 14 notifications bug still hasn't been fixed — and it's been six months

iOS fourteen notifications issues all the same hasn't been stock-still — and information technology'south been six months

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iOS fourteen.5 may be almost here, simply iOS 14 is nonetheless suffering from a major bug. What's more, at that place doesn't appear to exist a solution in sight,

The problem is a notification bug that first turned up final September. The trouble is preventing users from seeing messages and calls, and it'due south then serious that in that location's a xc-folio thread on Apple support. But no reliable set.

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The interesting thing about the event is that it's not preventing calls and messages from coming in. Some Apple Watch owners have noticed that they'll get notifications on their watch, with nothing appearing on their iPhone.

The support thread is full of various iOS 14 fixes people say work on their iPhone. Some merits that a reboot will bring those notifications back into view, while others claim switching off Bluetooth is the all-time solution.

Some users even merits that unpairing and re-pairing their Apple tree Sentry seems to have solved the issue. Others believe that iOS xiv is randomly activating the "Hide Alerts" feature, which is preventing the phone from telling y'all about calls and letters.

If you are suffering from the problem, and want to explore all your avenues, this may be worth trying. Just head to a chat in Letters, long-press the proper name or number at the acme, and you lot'll be able to see the status of the hide alerts pick.

But those fixes don't piece of work for everyone, meaning at that place could exist a much more serious trouble here. And since there are comments from the by few days, information technology appears the effect is even so very much ongoing.

ZDent's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has personally walked some users through fixes on their own iPhones, to their frustration when the fixes don't seem to work. Ane person he spoke to fifty-fifty went to the extreme length of buying a brand new iPhone, simply for the problem to rear up inside a few weeks.

It'south a weird situation for sure, to the lowest degree of all because the bug has lived on through several updates to iOS fourteen. It may get fixed with iOS xiv.5, but information technology's incommunicable to say for certain. Not unless Apple comes out and announces that a fix to this problem volition be included in the adjacent update.

But the question of why it has persisted for so long doesn't have an obvious answer. Here's hoping people don't have to expect until iOS fifteen for a solution

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