Notification is an important thing for smartphones users. With a variety of apps working all together getting a notification is the only thing to never miss out on an update coming through the app. But this helping feature can be a problem when many notifications come up unwantedly annoying you every time. There have been a lot of complaints about app notification coming up which does not really benefits the users. In such a scenario think about the same notification coming out multiple time. This is what the duplicate message issue means. Here is a guide on How to fix the duplicate messages issue on iPhone X.

Many iPhone X users have reported the problem of duplicate messages. This problem is not really about messages being duplicated. In this case, the notification is what getting duplicated. The users were reported to get a notification with the arrival of the message and one again after few minutes. There are also users who reported this happening more than two times. It can be really annoying getting notified about the same message more than once. Here are solutions for stopping this, please read through.

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Ways to fix the duplicate messages issue on iPhone X

There can be many reasons for this from happening. Here are some steps you can try to fix the issue. Please try out all and find which one will suit you.

Enable and disable iMessages

The most basic solution you can try is disabling iMessage option and enabling it again. The steps to do this are:

  • Open settings
  • Tap on messages
  • Toggle off iMessages by tapping on the toggle button
  • Again tap on the same button to enable it

Change repeat alerts to never

iPhone X has an option to repeat alerts. When enabled this will make notifications to appear multiple times. The steps to turn it off are:

  • Open settings
  • Tap on notifications
  • Tap on messages
  • Tap on repeat alerts
  • Select never by tapping on it

Make sure only one number is listed under iMessage

Make sure the iMessage only has one number listed. The steps to do this are:

  • Open settings
  • Tap on messages
  • Tap on send & receive
  • Make sure you can reach by iMessage at section only has one number listed

I hope this guide was useful in understanding how to fix the duplicate messages issue on iPhone X. If you have any queries or feedback, please leave a comment below.