iPhone iOS 12 notifications across iOS devices bug?

[rchomskis]

iOS 12 notifications are a total mess at my side! I have my mid-2018 MBP with the latest MacOS Mojave update, which handles notifications well. But when it comes to my iPhone 7, iPad Pro (late-2018) and Apple Watch 3 - iOS notifications behave erratically. Specifically, what annoys me most is that once I deal with certain notifications on one of my Apple devices, those same notifications still appear on other devices. For example, on my iPhone I received two Mail notifications, several SMS notifications and several Facebook notifications. I deal with the notifications on my iPhone as usual - open appropriate apps to read my new emails, sms, Facbook posts. iPhone clears the notifications. But then, some time later when I pick up my iPad - as soon as I unlock the screen those same, now obsolete, Mail, SMS, and Facebook notifications, which I dealt with on my iPhone earlier, are being pushed to my iPad ... Same situation on my Apple Watch - I still see those old notifications waiting to be dealt with.

Here's a video of the mentioned bug in action. This morning I picked up my iPhone, unlocked the screen with my touch ID, and look and behold - yesterday's notifications are being pushed, which I actually dealt with yesterday on my iPad Pro. This really annoys me, since it gets in the way of using my Apple Devices without being bothered by those old obsolete pesky notifications. This is getting even weirder when someone else from my family picks up one of my devices, unlocks the screen and sees all of my personal notifications being pushed. So not cool, Apple! Any ideas how to fix this nonsense? BTW, background app refresh is enabled on all of my devices. But enabling or disabling it doesn't seem to fix the issue. I am out of ideas

 

[ram130]

Same here. I was wondering if this was ever a feature to begin with lol.

 

[NoBoMac]

Is the Watch a cellular one? Might make a difference, because...

Think working as designed. Maybe Messages is a valid complaint, especially if iCloud Messages are on.

Hopefully an app developer will chime in, but from my understanding, notifications are local or push. In the case of local, let's use Mail, your iPad and iPhone poll the mail server around same time, see a new message, generates a notification on the device. You pick up the phone, look at the mail, marked read. Since local, clears on phone but iPad has no clue you read, particularly if mail service is not a push (edit: works like old Unix world mail in that just checking if something new vs more thorough processing).

Case of remote push notifications, developer can program in actions, but unless one setup, pretty much no feed back to developer's server generating the notification.

If watch is non-cellular, then a complaint as would expect clearing on either phone or watch should clear on other since tied via Bluetooth. Cellular, basically separate, especially if phone is out of range.

I setup a small test with Messages. Responded and deleted two from earlier today. Just sent a message from a different number, read it on phone, will see if still have a notification on the iPad for that.

ADD: in the case of Calendar/Reminders, works as expected. If I clear one on my Mac, do see that notification disappear from the lock screen of my iPhone. In that case, push from iCloud is updating status (pretty sure about push in that iPhone clears almost instantly after cleared on Mac).

ADD2: Emails (gmail account via stock app) gave me notifications for emails I responded to via phone earlier in the day. Test text message sent, no notification (iCloud Messages are on). So, appears it will be on an service by service basis.