No sound on iPhone after iOS 18 Update

I had the same problem. I tried a number of fixes that didn’t work. I just turned off the lock sound (in settings-sound) button and turned it back on and things went back to normal.

Anyone have any ideas about the new update? 18.1?!?Do we install it? I am going to wait couple of weeks myself

This happened to me, too. My speakers are totally dead--Siri can’t hear me, there’s no sound during phone calls, etc. I’ll try restarting a few times, and I’m looking for this hearing aid setting someone else suggested. Will update.

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My jaybird earbuds now only play out of one earbud since updating to 18 , great work Apple , I was hoping that Apple might appear here to help us all out with the problem, that’s wishful thinking for you

@KellyRobison

If you also have a case open with Apple regarding no mail notification sounds using the Mail app with a Gmail account and they told you that if you are using a third party email account, that people will not get a notification sound with the 18 update, then why in gods good name are they telling me and others that the only solution is to erase our phones and setup from scratch?! And that “solution” has confirmed by others NOT to work. And if I call Apple for more help they refuse to provide any alternative solutions. I had no problems with notifications with iOS 17 but I have had nothing but headaches with iOS 18. It’s high time to switch to a third party email app that provides sounds since the “all new and shiny iOS 18” took away the basic functionality of basic iOS apps like Mail. Unbelievable. My frustration is, of course, not directed at you; it’s directed at Apple.

The only way I have been able to get sound notifications for texts back (and it was about 98% successful) was to reset the phone back to factory settings. Even with restoring settings from ICloud backups I spent several days going over all the individual settings to rest my preferences. Also restarted wifi. There seem to be several threads with similar complaints about 18.0 and 18.1. I've sent 2 Feedback reports in asking for a fix for this in another update. So please report here at the link to Apple feedback for IPhone:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

I had the same issue with sounds not working on my apps.

turns out that I had to go into control panel, under what’s playing I had to set it to iPhone, it was set to my hearing aids. After that, sounds worked just fine.

I have a case open with Apple Support right now for no notification sounds. She told me what you said, that with the new IOS update, when you have a third party email like gmail, you will not get sound notifications for your email unless your phone is plugged in. I am having all kinds of issues regarding no sound. Some of my haptics aren't working either. The only thing that seems to work is my phone will ring when someone calls me. No sound for texts, no sound when I turn click off the lock screen...what a mess.

To JohnB1964JohnnyCanuck1964, KellyRobison, everyone who has changed to the outlook and Gmail apps…. are you getting Lock Screen notifications too? Please let me know and let me know what email app you are using. Thank you so much for your feedback! It will be greatly appreciated.

Taittinger1980: Yes. I’m getting the notifications on my Lock Screen. I just switched to Outlook app and set up my email account. Everything is working. The issue with no sounds on my phone like text notifications and no haptic sounds - the fix for me was turning off Vocal Shortcuts in Accessibility. Dumb question, but for not Lock Screen notifications, do you have the setting to display as List or Stack? I had mine set to Count and it wouldn’t show I had a text, it would just give me a sound and then just a message saying how many notifications I have. I changed it to Stack and that worked.

Tattinger1980. I am using Outlook App and yes, getting lock screen notifications. Only drawback is you can only use the handful of 1-2 second sounds that Outlook allows. You cannot add your own sound. Not that big a problem but enough to hope Apple fixes their Mail App….

A couple of weeks ago I started getting sound notifications...SOMETIMES, it comes and goes. I lost sounds for email after the iOS 18.0 update, like so many others. I called customer service but they wanted me to do a complete reset of my phone and I didn't want to do that. I'm too afraid if I update to iOS 18.1 it will cause even the few times I DO get sound notifications to go back to ZERO. I'm also going to wait a couple of weeks.

I am also having the same problem and was told to reset all settings. Did that and it was a pain to put everything back in and did so. Still no text sound notifications!! They need to fix this soon! Very frustrating

It is happenning for me too with messages and messenger facebook . I hear the sound when phone is open but when closed (not in use ) it only vibrates weird so basically i only ear the notification sounds when i have the phone in hand and using it .

Same. Turning Bluetooth off solves it for me but when I turn on again the problem comes back after 5 minutes or so. I need Bluetooth for my Apple Watch. This happened after installing 18.0.1