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Hi,
Have you tried changing your notification settings to 'persistent'? Notifications won't go away and you have to dismiss them when you're doing activities, and they'll stay on the lock screen. You have to clear each notification manually. I think you have to do this per app basis. This might not be the issue, but it's worth a look.

Hi Nut,

This totally may not be the issue, but have you checked VoiceOver's notification verbosity settings to be sure they are set the way you want them to be? Go to Settings> Accessibility> VoiceOver> Verbosity> System Notifications. Under the 'Banner Notifications' heading, there are three options that you can select or de-select based on your preferences: 'Speak', 'Play Haptic', and 'Braille'. (There is also an option to 'Do Nothing', which I would assume turns every other option off.) I currently have all of these selected/enabled. I would also double check the next option further down in this list to be sure the speaking of notifications isn't impacted by the status of your Ring/Mute switch (or Silent Mode toggle on something later than an iPhone 15 Pro).

For the notifications you are, not, getting on your screen when the iPhone is unlocked, you will need to go into each of those notifications and make sure, "Allow as Banner", is checked.

For example, I am an ebay user, so my ebay notifications have the following items checked under the "Alerts" heading:
Selected, Allow on Lockscreen.
Selected, Allow in Notification Center.
Selected, Allow as Banner. This last one has to do with your screen anytime it is not locked and not actively displaying the notification center.

HTH. :)

Within Settings, Notifications, you will want to make sure, "Show Previews", is set to always. I am fairly certain this allows VO to read them aloud.

HTH.

One more thing to try. Double tap, or triple tap, your screen with all four fingers, and that should open the quick settings menu. Navigate through that until you find system notifications. Make sure that is set to "on".
Tip: you may have to go to settings, accessibility, VoiceOver, commands, touch, to learn the correct gesture. For me, it's a double tap with four fingers, but I cannot remember if that's by default, or if I added that myself. Lol

HTH.

If that is turned off, you likely will not be getting any notifications on your phone when the phone is unlocked. At least not through VoiceOver. I would recommend you turning that on, rebooting your iPhone, and try sending yourself a text, to see if you get a notification on screen when your phone is unlocked.
Just a recommendation, of course.

Reset your settings. Your data won't be erased. However, password, face or touch id, and the like have to be setup again.

Here's to hoping it was a success! 😅

It could be related to Do Not Disturb. I guess you could double-check settings > Focus and see if you have any DnD enabled when Notifications are not working.

Perhaps they can help you or suggest something.

If your situation really can't be resolved; you could try another apple phone, or android.

This has to be one of the more bizarre bugs I have ever heard of. I am guessing you have already tried the reset settings option? Not a full factory reset, mind you, but just a reset of settings?

Seems like that would be your next step. 😖

If you're just resetting settings, and not factory resetting, you shouldn't lose your app placement on your home screen, you should not lose passcodes/passwords, all your banking apps, etc., should work fine. You, might, have to redo Face ID, and adjust Certain settings for other applications, but overall it's a lot better than doing a full factory reset.

This thread was painful to read because yes, I have the exact same issue and no, sad to say, I never found any kind of satisfactory solution, beyond going into Notification Centre from time to time and just making sure you've not missed anything important while you've been unlocked. And yes, this began well into the iOS 17 cycle and was never fixed.

Maybe I'll do the reset thing, some day. When I can be properly bothered. Which, right now, I simply can't. Upgrading is a big enough task as it is with all of Apple's recent changes, it's already taken long enough to clear that hump. So I just put up with it, for now. Sorry I can't help!

Hi,

Do you still get either sounds and or haptic feedback to tell you a notification has arrived? If so you can tap on the top corner of the screen and it will show you the notification. From there you can swipe up or down to dismiss it. I say top left but I think it is any top or bottom corner edge.

No, there's no indication at all of a new notification while the device is unlocked. While locked, or while viewing notification centre, they appear in realtime (so it's not a network issue). But while unlocked, DND might as well be on (it isn't, of course).