After the iOS 18 update I no longer receive push notifications on my Lock Screen. I have to open the apps to see that I receive a message hours ago and never received the notification. iPhone 13 Pro
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iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 18
The only thing that worked for me was resetting all settings. Settings app > “General” > “Transfer or reset iphone” > “Reset” > choose “Reset all settings” from the popup menu.
It’s annoying that it requires a blanket fix like that, but it’s way less frustrating than the notification problems. The most intense implications of resetting your settings, in my experience, was that every app acts somewhat like a newly installed app when you open it again after resetting – it’ll keep your “in app” settings (so any settings you’ve managed from the app itself isn’t reset) and data (it doesn’t wipe your app clean), but any settings in the literal iPhone Settings app will be set back to default values. This means you have to allow camera and mic access, access to photo library, access to your location data, etc. I found it a nice way to kind of overhaul my privacy settings everywhere, silver lining.
please note that it will also delete your saved Wifi passwords, unless you have them saved in the passwords app like your network is a website (the passwords app is safe from the reset).
Mine is now doing it too after 18.3.1 update.. doublechecked all my apps and notifications are turned on but not getting them. Especially concerning as I am a Type 1 diabetic and my Dexcom/omnipods aren’t pushing through.
Same here with iOS 18.3.1. It does not affect all apps strangely. For example, I get no more notifications from Mail and Outlook but Airmail does send notifications! I do not want to have to buy Airmal, just so that I can have my notifications back.
This is ridiculous!
rares996 wrote:
It works for a while then again won’t get notifications. Amazing how no one from Apple says anything about this issue
It's not at all amazing that Apple hasn't responded here. This is a user-to-user forum. Apple employees don't post in threads unless it's a health/safety issue.
This same thing just happened to my phone after an update. I also have the iPhone 13 Pro and I’m not receiving notifications although I did not mess with my notification settings. I did however go in and try to reset my phone and it did not work; nothing has worked that I’ve tried. I have to open the app in order to get the notification. It’s starting to make me pretty annoyed. It’s been happening for days now and I can’t get it to start working again. Apple needs to get this fixed asap!!!
Thank you for the re-install tip, at least doing it for the most critical apps until the issue will be fixed. Amazing I see this is not a recent issue and that it has not been fixed nor any official response from Apple, well proper response?
I've been having this issue for several months now. My phone will inconsistently deliver notifications. Sometimes I'll get notifications, but usually not. In the same way, my phone will inconsistently send those notifications to my watch. The main issue is that when someone phones me, I won't get the notification until I pick up my phone and see the missed calls. Particularly frustrating to miss several calls from my kids' school.
New issue since 18.4 installed on an iPhone 15P. Happens multiple times when you slide to answer a call. The phone will not pickup or take the call. Bad enough to have no push notifications, but to miss picking up important calls is embarrassing and totally unacceptable. Rebooted phone twice, forced shutdown. Still misses the slide to accept a call multiple times a day. I truly believe this is a forced planned obsolescence to force a phone upgrade. iOS 17 never had ANY of these issues.
I haven't received iphone notifications since ios16 dropped several years ago across 2 different iphones. Several resets, migration to a brand new phone, every setting combination I can think of. Half my contacts are still randomly muted permanently.
Round 2 of testing... for each set, I sent an iMessage from another phone and triggered a Ring alert.
So, based on this, the issue has something to do with having the watched paired to the phone AND the watch being unlocked. I checked any of the watch notifications I could find, but none of them seem to be set in a way that would cause this issue. Any ideas?
You can’t, but i created a shortcut you can then use as an automation which gets triggered when you receive a new message.
details in here (i just posted a longer reply detailing how to make it work on your end) : I am not receiving push notifications on … - Apple Community
Hi! No, I've tried almost everything, but it doesn't work. Notifications deliver after 5-30 minutes. I think, that iPhone is in deep sleep when it’s locked by 15 minutes or more. Just wait for iOS 26, maybe it fixes this issue.
SOLVED: I had the issue with plain SMS messages (I don't use iMessage at all). Everything about SMS app notifications was turned on in my device. Nothing helped me until updating to iOS 26.0.1 right now.
iPhone 13 Pro Max, I don't like iOS 26, but not getting any SMS notifications is even worse.
Unfortunately, there are a ton of people having this same issue with certain apps.
More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1fitriw/ios_18_push_notifications_not_working/
Yup me 2 , it has been about 2 weeks for me that my notifications are not working, most from my socials
The same issue, I had re set all the notifications and still nothing since I updated my new IPhone to the latest IOS 18.1 .
And I’m still experiencing touch screen issues.
I am not receiving push notifications on my iPhone after iOS 18 update
