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sony007

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Dec 3, 2010
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I have absolutely no idea what happened or even if it's a bug, but for some reason the last few days I haven't been receiving any of the usual notifications on my phone running iOS 15.1. I've gone into the 'notifications' setting and all the apps have ALLOW NOTIFICATION turned on and all 3 have been selected. I've gone into 'focus' and DO NOT DISTURB is switch off.
I'm receiving WhatsApp notifications on the lock screen now but that didn't work either but I found a fix for that which involved having to download another app so I could then delete WhatsApp and install it again to receive notifications again.
Apps like Sky News, Reddit and a few other apps, I no longer receive anything unless I actually open the specific app like Reddit to see the notifications.
If this is a new setting by Apple to stop folks picking up their devices all the time I welcome that as an option, but allow the user to determine what notifications they would like to see without interruptions, if that is what it is of course.

Is there way to fix this and get my usual notifications appearing again on the lock screen?
 
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Hicksmat1976

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Jul 12, 2016
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Same issue iOS 15.2. No notifications on Lock Screen but open the individual apps and there’s new items.

I reboot the phone and notifications work as usual for a while but then the bug occurs again.
 
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sony007

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Dec 3, 2010
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What I had to do to resolve the issue was to delete each app that was being problematic and then reinstalling each one.
 

lia1tan

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Aug 4, 2021
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Glad to see that I’m not alone in this. Notifications have been super inconsistent for me. Sometimes it’ll start working again and then it’ll stop working randomly again. Restarting the phone and reinstalling the apps have only worked for a while but then they go back to being buggy again.
 

Sital

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May 31, 2012
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I've noticed this notification issue mostly with Messages since iOS 14. Just now I watched the notification banners pop up on my MBP screen as multiple messages just came in, but my iPhone 12 Pro sat there like a rock. When I tapped the phone screen the notifications were there but my phone never woke up when they came in.
 
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