iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Users Complain of Missing SMS Text Messages and Message Notifications

Since the discharge of the brand new iPhone 12 fashions, many new iPhone house owners have been operating into issues with the Messages app. There are complaints from customers who aren’t seeing SMS messages from associates, are lacking textual content messages in group chats, and who aren’t getting notifications when textual content messages are incoming.

It’s not clear if it is a drawback that is associated particularly to the ‌iPhone 12‌ fashions or if it is a wider challenge with iOS 14.1 and iOS 14.2, however the majority of complaints seem like from ‌iPhone 12‌ house owners.

Those who’re experiencing missed SMS messages are merely not seeing some textual content messages which can be despatched from Android gadgets, as MacRumors reader FraXis describes:

But I simply upgraded to an ‌iPhone 12‌ (coming from an iPhone 11 Max Pro), and I’m in a gaggle message with my children. One of my children is an Android consumer. Last evening he got here as much as me and requested me why I did not reply to his two textual content messages he despatched to the group. I checked my ‌iPhone‌, and I did not obtain any textual content messages from him within the group chat. He then confirmed me his telephone, and positive sufficient, he had despatched them to the group.

Most of the people who find themselves lacking SMS messages usually are not seeing them in group chats, however there are experiences of some standalone messages not getting delivered. From MacRumors reader TheElmnt:

I’m having the very same drawback. It appears I’m having points in group threads solely when it has android customers. I’ve been so confused in our messages the previous couple of days. None of our conversations make sense. My associates and I simply examined with iMessage and it does not appear to have any issues with simply Apple customers. I reported the bug to Apple. I simply seen this after upgrading to an iPhone 12 Pro from iPhone XS. Running iOS 14.1 on Verizon. I deleted each single textual content message on my telephone and rebooted, turned iMessage off and again on. Hoping this helps.

There are additionally separate complaints of Messages being acquired, however no notification exhibiting up. This is an issue that even pre-dates the ‌iPhone 12‌ and iOS 14, as we have had earlier points with it too. From MacRumors reader bmac4:

I’m having the problem with only a single individual and it is not SMS. Mine is iMessage. I used to be texting with my mother final evening, and she up to date to 14.2 on her XR within the course of. Soon after, she stopped replying to my textual content. I despatched her one other one, and she mentioned she by no means noticed the textual content. Then I finished receiving any alerts in any respect. I needed to open the message app and verify to see if a message was there. Sure sufficient the telephone by no means alerted, and there was no badge, however there was a message. ‌iOS 14‌ is a complete mess.

Some Verizon customers have been in a position to clear up their SMS messages by downloading the Verizon Message+ app, but it surely’s not a whole repair for everybody and it does not work for all non-Verizon customers. One reader additionally had success resetting community settings (Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings), however that has not labored for others. Toggling off 5G additionally doesn’t appear to be an answer.

This is probably going an issue that carriers want to handle with up to date firmware or that Apple wants to repair in an upcoming software program replace. It seems to be an issue in each iOS 14.1 and iOS 14.2, and it is too quickly but to inform if iOS 14.three is affected.

Are you having points receiving some messages on ‌iPhone 12‌ and 12 Pro fashions? Let us know within the feedback.