When I’m in another app and my wife send me an iMessage, I don’t get the notification banner, so I don’t know she has sent me a message even. Nor does it come up when the machine is locked. FaceTime incoming calls give notification as expected though. When I’m inside the iMessage app itself I see the incoming message, so no comms problem.
Spoke to Apple who said there’s a thing visible in the lock screen when you get a notification - you can swipe left and then you get an option "Manage" which allows you to hide that one specific type of notification. So they’re saying I must have fallen victim to that. But there’s no way of undoing it then, as I cannot see these things in the lock screen away so cannot get back into this manage thing.
Would I spend ten hours driving to Glasgow and back to an Apple store? Can’t do that, so I’m stuffed then,