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# Missing Notifications in iOS 18
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2025/01/missing-notifications-in-ios-18/
- Published: 2025-01-28T17:01:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-28T17:01:59.000Z
- Description: TL;DR If you're missing notifications on iOS, try deleting and reinstalling the app.
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Apple, iOS

I'm not sure which version of iOS 18 it was that this bug started happening with, but something changed where I wasn't getting notifications from some apps with iOS 18 on my iPhone 13 Pro. It wasn't every app, and it wasn't the apps I think of as being important. Messages still came through—[Fantastical](https://flexibits.com/fantastical?ref=chrisenns.com) was reminding me about meetings, Reminders was notifying me every time I drove past Co-op to pick up #6 coffee filters, certainly all the Apple apps were working fine—but I was missing notifications from secondary level apps. 

I first started to notice it when I was missing daily [BeReal](https://bereal.com/?ref=chrisenns.com) post notifications. Others in my family would get the "time to BeReal ⚠️" notification, but nothing came through on my iPhone. Then I realized I wasn't getting [Google Home](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/google-home/id680819774?ref=chrisenns.com) camera alerts, [Edsby](https://www.edsby.com/?ref=chrisenns.com) school messages, or [TeamLink](https://teamlinkt.com/?ref=chrisenns.com) messages from my kid's hockey team. If I opened the app, all the appropriate messages where there. The notification settings were all the same as before at both the app and iOS system level. But I couldn't get notifications to come through no matter what I did.

I finally realized I could just try deleting and reinstalling the apps that weren't getting notifications through and that's what fixed the issue. 

![Screenshot of iOS showing the press and hold on an app options including Delete App](https://storage.ghost.io/c/67/50/6750cf9b-787e-4b61-ae0a-04a8492a2ece/content/images/2025/01/IMG_4215.jpeg)

![Screenshot of iOS showing the confirmation dialogue for Deleting BeReal app.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/67/50/6750cf9b-787e-4b61-ae0a-04a8492a2ece/content/images/2025/01/IMG_4216.jpeg)

For some reason the permissions for some third party apps got reset to off and I couldn't force them to work until I reinstalled the app and walked through setting it up and allowed notifications during the set up process.

Thankfully now I can [BeReal again](https://bere.al/ichris?ref=chrisenns.com) and [my one friend](https://bsky.app/profile/spencermeisner.bsky.social?ref=chrisenns.com) can like my posts and all is right with the world.

![Sharing a BeReal photo of me holding a coffee mug with a picture of my computer monitor writing this very blog post.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/67/50/6750cf9b-787e-4b61-ae0a-04a8492a2ece/content/images/2025/01/image-1.png)