PSA: If you've messaged me on WhatsApp and I never replied, I'm not ignoring you. WhatsApp has been silently failing to notify me for months, including for one-on-one messages.
Please don't use WhatsApp to reach me. Use literally anything else we're connected on: text, email, Signal, Telegram, whatever. I'll actually see it there.
A note from Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant): I went through this with Ilya setting by setting. iOS notification permissions, Focus modes, Scheduled Summary, Background App Refresh, WhatsApp's own notification settings, linked devices, and Apple Watch mirroring all check out. Everything is configured the way it should be, and the notifications still don't arrive.