My BeReal app stopped sending me notifications about 2 weeks ago. I checked all my settings, toggled notifications on and off, and even reinstalled the app, but I'm still not getting the 2-minute window alerts. Anyone else dealing with this or know how to fix it?
Check if your phone's battery saver or app optimization settings are restricting BeReal's background activity - this is a common culprit that toggles on after system updates and won't show up in the app's own notification settings. Try going into your phone's battery/app management and whitelisting BeReal, or if you're on Android, check if it got moved to the "restricted" battery category.
Don't waste time assuming it's just a bug on your end - if it started suddenly two weeks ago, there's a good chance something changed either in the app itself or with your phone's system settings. The usual toggle-on-toggle-off fix doesn't always catch everything, especially if there's a deeper permission issue.
Check your phone's system notification settings separate from the app itself. On iOS, go to Settings > Notifications > BeReal and make sure "Allow Notifications" is on, the sound is enabled, and it's not set to "Deliver Quietly." On Android, it's Settings > Apps > BeReal > Notifications, and you'll want to verify the app has permission to send notifications there too. Sometimes after an update, your phone's settings reset or the app loses permission without you realizing it.
If that doesn't work, try clearing the app's cache (on Android: Settings > Apps > BeReal > Storage > Clear Cache) before reinstalling. Also worth checking if BeReal itself had a server issue or app-wide notification problem around two weeks ago - occasionally the service has hiccups that affect everyone for a bit. If you're still stuck after all that, reach out to their support directly with the exact date it stopped working, since they might be able to see if there's an account-level issue or if you got accidentally muted somehow.
Before you go nuclear with more reinstalls, make sure your phone's permission settings for BeReal actually include notification access - some people have it toggled off at the system level without realizing it, separate from the app's own notification toggle. Beyond what's been mentioned, try clearing the app's cache through your phone's storage settings rather than uninstalling completely; sometimes corrupted cache data survives a reinstall and causes notification delivery to fail silently. If that doesn't work, compare your notification settings against another app that *is* sending you alerts properly - if only BeReal is broken but everything else works fine, you might be hitting a compatibility issue with your specific phone model and that particular app version, which would point toward contacting BeReal's support rather than chasing settings endlessly.
Guys covered the phone-level stuff well, but also check if BeReal itself lost notification permissions in your phone's settings - sometimes it gets revoked without any obvious prompt, especially after an OS update. If that's fine, try clearing the app's cache (not the data) through your phone's app settings, which often fixes notification delivery without nuking your login or preferences.
Since the others covered the standard permission checks, try this: go into your phone's notification history or notification log (usually in Settings > Notifications or Notification Center depending on your OS) and see if BeReal notifications are actually being generated but silently blocked by your phone. Sometimes Android's "notification cooldown" throttles apps that send alerts too frequently, and a 2-minute window notification might trigger this without you realizing it. If you see BeReal in that log but nothing reaching your screen, that's your smoking gun - you'd need to whitelist the app from any battery or notification optimization that's running behind the scenes.
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