I recently updated my iPhone to iOS 18. Everything seems to be fine except for one annoying thing. The "Hide Alerts" option in Message no longer functions. I keep getting alerts and notifications from the groups that I have silenced. Is this a bug?
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iPhone 13 mini, iOS 18
SOLUTION (for me)
For the chat it was happening in (RCP texting with three iOS phones and one Android) I was suddenly getting Haptic notifications despite having the chat muted. I tried several things, including turning on and off the Hide setting on the chat and the individuals. This sometimes worked for a bit.
What solved it for me was going into each individual contact (I went through the "5 people" menu at the top of the chat record), selecting "Edit" and setting each person's Text Tone sound and Haptic vibration to "none."
That makes some intuitive sense but should obviously (as in the past) not override the selection you make for the chat as a whole. It also might create problems if you want to mute the chat but not the individuals, but hey.
SOLUTION (for me)
For the chat it was happening in (RCP texting with three iOS phones and one Android) I was suddenly getting Haptic notifications despite having the chat muted. I tried several things, including turning on and off the Hide setting on the chat and the individuals. This sometimes worked for a bit.
What solved it for me was going into each individual contact (I went through the "5 people" menu at the top of the chat record), selecting "Edit" and setting each person's Text Tone sound and Haptic vibration to "none."
That makes some intuitive sense but should obviously (as in the past) not override the selection you make for the chat as a whole. It also might create problems if you want to mute the chat but not the individuals, but hey.
A couple weeks ago I finally updated to iOS 18.2 from iOS 17. I’ve been have the same problem. Today I updated to 18.2.1 and it seems the bug is fixed.
After updating to 18.4, I initially did not toggle the Hide Alerts option, and the problem persisted. I then toggled it for one of the groups and it seems to have resolved the problem, and has remained so for a few days. I have now toggled the option for the other groups as well.
Hopefully, that's the end of it!
iOS 18.4 appears to have fixed the issue for me. It was one of the most annoying iOS bugs I have encountered in 10+ years. Hope it’s fixed for others and stays fixed
Sorry to hear. After the 18.4 update, I had to toggle Hide Alerts for certain RCS group messages and the alerts finally remained hidden after toggling. Super annoying bug
This has been happening since iOS 18.2 and has stayed in iOS 18.3. This only happens in RCS group chats and it’s very annoying to receive so many notifications from these group chats I have set to hide alerts. Would love to hear acknowledgment from an Apple rep.
FYI -
I've tried the suggested option to "Reset All Settings." It did work for like a day, and then it went back to not hiding alerts again. I wouldn't waste your time. Otherwise you'll be spending a while logging into all of your apps again, reconnecting WiFi signals, setting up all of your alarms, etc. Apple needs to fix this ASAP. It's annoying and started with IOS 18. We're now coming up on 18.3.1 soon.
Same here. Def not fixed. Also, when I turned on RCS again to test is post update, numerous old messages came through for the first time (non-RCS wasn’t working properly).
so I resorted to changing the text tone for those ppl to None for sounds and haptics, choosing to get messages again.
Apple do better!
Ummm, Never-mind. It seems the family text thread with mixed iPhone and Android users is not muted. 😖
This has been happening to me since 18.0, and now on 18.3 and it’s still going. Several weeks ago (while on 18.1), I opened a case with Apple and worked with a support tech who was wonderful, but did not have a solution. At that time she advised that it had not been raised to Engineering yet, but maybe it would work better in 18.2.
I don’t see any activity from Apple on this. I am happy to test solutions. Like everyone else, I tried deleting and rejoining, and several other similar sequences with no good result. I even had one group all delete the group the I recreated it. That didn’t work either.
Is anyone aware of any work by Apple on this specific issue? I have not seen anything.
You’re lucky it’s fixed for you, but it most certainly is NOT fixed for everyone (including me) with 18.2.1. I’ve tried everything (toggling, rebooting, etc) and the “hide alerts” switch on individual messages or group message chains seems to have zero effect. Still pops up on screen, still buzzes my phone and watch when they come through, and most annoyingly, still reads the message if I have my AirPods in. Infuriating.
I can't recommend doing the Reset All Settings option. It did not completely fix the bug. To be honest, I think the only thing we can do is ask everyone with this issue to call Apple Support. I don't think Apple Technicians follow these threads. When I talked to someone on the phone, they searched through similar cases of people who called in. I would hope that if enough people called in, then Apple would take this issue seriously.
I would not say that the issue is completely solved. There is a bug somewhere in iOS that needs to be fixed to totally solve the problem.
That's the problem - all the workarounds are temporary. Apple needs to fix the underlying problem with RCS messages or message groups.
Same here. Updated to 18.2 and my family in-law group of iOS and Android users no longer hides notifications. I’ve toggled it on and off, restarted the phone, reset all setting’s and it persists.
It’s the only thing I need alerts muted for because they have habits of texting at 3 am my time, but I need all other ever changing list of numbers calls and texts alerts to come thru for my job.
"Hide Alerts" option in Messages not working after iOS 18 update on my iPhone 13 mini
