Phone Link won't show Notifications in Notification area

Enable Phone Link’s two Windows notification presentation options—Show notification banners and Show notifications in notification center—because allowing Phone Link notifications globally does not necessarily enable either presentation surface.

Configure the Windows banner

1. Open Start > Settings > System > Notifications.
2. Under Notifications from apps and other senders, select Phone Link.
3. Turn on:
   • Notifications
   • Show notification banners
   • Show notifications in notification center
4. Optionally set Priority of notifications to High.
5. Press Windows key + N and ensure Do not disturb is off. If it turns on automatically, expand Turn on do not disturb automatically and review its rules. With Do Not Disturb enabled, most notifications go silently to Notification Center instead of appearing as banners.^1^

Then send a new test message to the iPhone while the PC is unlocked. The expected result is a temporary banner at the lower-right and an entry under Windows key + N.

Check Phone Link’s own notification control

In Phone Link > Settings, open its notification settings and verify that phone notifications have not been muted. From an existing notification, the … menu can mute that app or service; Go to settings opens Phone Link’s notification controls.^2^

Microsoft documents Feed and Banner as a per-mobile-app choice, but the detailed procedure currently appears under the Android section of its support page—not the iOS section. Therefore, if that control is absent with your iPhone, do not treat its absence as a configuration fault. For iPhone, Microsoft documents notifications appearing on the PC when they exist in the iPhone Notification Center and have not been disabled for that app.^2^

About copying verification codes

Current Microsoft documentation confirms that sensitive data such as two-factor-authentication SMS can be visible in Phone Link when message permission is granted.^3^ However, it does not document a guaranteed one-click copy verification code action for current Phone Link/iPhone notification banners. Available actions depend on the notification type; message notifications officially support inline reply and marking as read.^2^

Consequently:

• If ordinary messages now produce banners but a particular verification code does not, the remaining difference is the notification’s content/action handling rather than the general Windows notification configuration.
• If no Phone Link notification produces a banner after the settings above, report it through Feedback Hub with a newly received test notification, your Windows version, and Phone Link version. You have already repaired and reset Phone Link, so repeating those operations is unlikely to add useful diagnostic information.

References

1. [Windows 11](https://support.microsoft.com/windows/experience/notifications-and-do-not-disturb-in-windows#configure-notifications)
2. [iOS](https://support.microsoft.com/windows/apps/view-and-manage-mobile-notifications-on-your-pc#what-can-i-do-with-the-notifications-i-receive)
3. [Android](https://support.microsoft.com/windows/apps/phonelink/phone-link-requirements-and-setup#how-do-i-enable-location-sharing-permission)