nfty - no sound on iOS 26.2; breaks other notifications

[jsrozner]

🐞 Describe the bug

I am using the default https://ntfy.sh server with a custom reserved channel. Notifications never have any sound (iOS 26.2, iphone 13 mini). Other notifications are not a problem (they do have sound). Notifications for ntfy are enabled. (Note that notifications do work on desktop and do have sound there.)

But wait! It gets much worse (and weird):

1. I text myself -> notification sound

2. I send a ntfy notification from python -> notification received but no sound

3. I text myself again -> NO notification sound

4. In order to get sound to behave again...I call myself...it rings

5. Repeat steps above with 100% replication success. Behaves the same whether I do ntfy notification with priority 2 or 3,4,5

💻 Components impacted

iOS app

💡 Screenshots and/or logs

🔮 Additional context

• Seems like setting "show notifications on mac" does not cause ntfy notifications to show up on mac
• Tried adding a separate reserved channel; still no help

[jsrozner]

• Interestingly, if I use a non-reserved channel, I do get sound!
• If I do nothing but add/remove/add/remove the channel from my ntfy.sh dashboard sound correspondingly turns off/on/off/on.
• Sound also works eg on "I can publish and subscribe, everyone can subscribe" (and again, sound comes goes if I change this setting)

Though interestingly toggling these do restore sound to ntfy, but they do not restore sound to my texts alerts... Truly strange. Definitely an apple bug it would seem. But also is there something different going on depending on receiver auth?

[Mastermjr]

I also do not have a sound on ios 26.3 after adding/removing the sub channel :( if anyone has any ideas to fix it please let me know

i'm using the free version with nothing special

sound does work in the browser :(