New MacBook Air is not showing option to allow iphone notifications

I got the new M4 Air a few days ago... I have turned on iPhone mirroring and allowed notifications from that prompt with no luck. I have restarted the computer and my phone. They are both on the same network and fully up to date. I can search "iPhone" in the MacBook settings and find the section to toggle iPhone notifications on and when clicked 'on' the option shows in the main notification menu but when I close out of settings it's gone and toggled off. On my phone I can see options to "show on Mac" but those are all toggled on as well.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 21, 2025 11:52 AM

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Posted on Apr 24, 2025 03:09 PM

Same exact issue here as well. Of note, widgets from iPhone are broken too in addition to this.


Was on M3 Air and migrated via Thunderbolt to a M2 Max Macbook.


Summary:

M3 Air, original login:

Mirroring - Works

Handoff - Works

iPhone Notification Mirroring - Works

iPhone widgets on Mac - Works


Migrated Max from M3 -> Thunderbolt connection on my migrated login:

Mirroring - Works just fine

Handoff - the little app icons show up for handoff work just fine

iPhone Notification Mirroring - does not work.

iPhone widgets on Mac - does not work


Of note on the migrated Max - I created a new account, logged into my iCloud and all the functionality is now working.

Mirroring, Handoff, Notifications, Widgets. All good - on the migrated mac. But it's not the account I want to be on, I have a ton of preferences/settings/logins that would be a nightmare to move over, and I don't want to deal with the potential pitfalls of unix UID 502 vs 501


I have created a support ticket with zero traction. I have gone through multiple hard drive wipes -> migrations at this point. Done every combination of logging on/off my iCloud account in combination of wiping the connection for phone mirroring/handoff/and all that. I'm sad. I miss my notifications.


I can confirm my App Store is logged in as me as well. I've tried to nuke some settings to no avail. Went to latest dev beta and back to no luck either. I'm at a loss and am sad about it

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New MacBook Air is not showing option to allow iphone notifications

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