Assume that you are in a meeting or talking to someone and don’t want to get disturbed with the unending notifications. What do you do? Well, you can silence the phone using the silent profile on iPhone XS Max or reduce the volume of notifications that must do the job. Some might even go further by blocking the notifications allowing only a handful of apps to send you notifications unless you want to disable all. Anyways, what if you have silent the phone but the phone goes off anyways even when it isn’t supposed to, what’s the problem? It is although not a common problem but it is not a rare problem and I am sure about it. The reason why it happens is due to software or technical glitch causing the incoming notification to sound even though you have entered a ‘silent’ profile.
The reason might be many but the result is that it is irritating because you have put your phone in silent mode for a reason in the first place. Thus, here are a few ways you can fix the iPhone XS Max notifications that play in silent mode using all the potential ways to fix it so refer this troubleshooting method to know more.
How to fix iPhone XS Max notifications that play in silent mode?
Mentioned hereon are a few key methods that will help disable the notifications when the silent mode is activated and also curb any notifications from leaking when the mode is active.
Restart your iPhone XS Max (Soft Reboot)
You did see it coming. This is the first thing anyone would do naturally whenever they end up in a problem with their phone and notifications that play in silent mode is no exception. The idea behind this issue is that there is a firmware issue or crash that took place either when you turned on the silent mode or when that particular notification(s) buzzed on your device. There are possibly numerous ways that could have happened such as outdated firmware or bad app or firmware updates, corrupted cache data, abnormal app behavior, and whatnot. Thus, a quick soft reboot must work in your favor although take a backup of any unsaved data as it will vanish once you are done through with the said method.