New MacBook Air is not showing option to allow iphone notifications

Haven't seen any updates on this recently. Having the exact same issue (notifications not working on a recently migrated m4 mpb). This is very annoying. Apple must be aware of this by now and, given the crowd here all saying they're having similar issues, this isn't a 'one off' problem. So...what's going on??

Bought 2 MacBook M4 Airs, used migration assistant on both to synch all settings with my M1 Mac, issue exists on one of the M4s even after update to Sequoia 15.5 today. I am not willing to do over as it is time consuming.

Hopefully Apple will produce a fix!

I finally bit the bullet and reset my MacBook and copied all of my files to an external drive (not back up). I set the Mac up as a new Mac, logged into iCloud and what not, and tried iPhone mirroring notifications, and still nothing. What did I do wrong? I did not restore from back up…

It gets even worse.. the new live activity feature in the new OS is also tied to this and therefore is also broken, so that won't work, either. Man, this is just awful because I'd have probably 100 hours of reconfiguring if I was to wipe but I was really looking forward to that feature, as well! :(

I thought I'd add to the crowd. I recently restored my MacBook Pro (16-inch, Nov 2024) from my Time Machine backup (macOS 15.5) after I deeply regretted installing Tahoe. Pretty silly of me, in hindsight, but I was very excited by the WWDC Keynote!

Back in 15.5, everything has been working fine except for iPhone notifications, exactly as described by everyone else here. I can even search for it in System Settings and toggle it, as others have noted, but it disappears after closing the app. I've tried restarting my devices and re-pairing them multiple times to no avail.

I really appreciate this feature, so it's very frustrating that it's broken after restoring from backup! My Mac is very meticulously configured to my liking, which is exactly why I love Time Machine. I'd really rather not have to set up from scratch just to get this one feature working again.

me too having this problem, spent a lot of hours and nothing's seems work. i migrate from M2 MBA to M4 MBP. that's very sad for a nearly 2000 bucks price tag device and we of course intend to use it for a long period of time.

is Apple going to ghost us on this issue?

Wondering if anyone has had success with either a carbon copy cloner or super duper backup used as the source for migration assistant? Those backups usually don't carry account type stuff so in theory shouldn't cause the iPhone notification issue

Thanks

That's great but that was not my question

For those of you who've used CCC or Super Duper with Migration Assistant are you having the same issue with iPhone notifications not showing up on the Mac?

The reason for this specific question is that, at least for CCC (I don't know much about Super Duper), account data / settings are not cloned and, so, migration assistant is just pulling data off the CCC backup when MA runs

As such, if only data (and not account info, settings, etc) is being migrated, are people still having this notification problem or not

Thanks

Thank you, this worked for me too! I had used migration assistant from an M1 Pro MacBook Pro to an M4 Max Mac Studio back in March and never had iPhone notifications on the Studio. I also have spent many hours troubleshooting with Apple Support, with no success until this.

I was able to use my wife's iPhone (signing out of her apple account and into mine on it) as I don't have a spare. One thing I noticed was that until I rebooted my Mac some of the apps were missing in the list of iPhone notifications on the Mac.

When I got the new MacBook Air with macOS 15.5, it was working fine. When I updated it yesterday, i ran into this issue. Contacted support, reinstalled OS, tried all possible solutions from the internet, still no luck. Any working fixes from anyone are appreciated, thanks.

This started working for me in MacOS 26 Tahoe. Finally! One thing to note is that before I installed the update I Revoked access to my iPhone in the iPhone Mirroring settings. Not sure if I needed to do this or not, but I'll take the win either way. Finally getting iPhone notifications on my Mac again. BTW, I also used Migration Assistant when upgrading from a M1 MacBook Air to a M3 MacBook Air. Hopefully they have fixed the issue with MA.

This started working for me in MacOS 26 Tahoe. Finally! One thing to note is that before I installed the update I Revoked access to my iPhone in the iPhone Mirroring settings. Not sure if I needed to do this or not, but I'll take the win either way. Finally getting iPhone notifications on my Mac again. BTW, I also used Migration Assistant when upgrading from a M1 MacBook Air to a M3 MacBook Air. Hopefully they have fixed the issue with MA.

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Does anyone have any updates or found resolution to iPhone notifications not working and the setting "disappearing"?

Upgraded to an M4 MacBook Air?