Wikipedia:Mobile communication bugs

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This page in a nutshell: Editors using the iOS app may not receive notifications.

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Editor Feature	Desktop	Mobile web	iOS app	Android app
Tag	N/a	Mobile web edit	iOS app edit	Android app edit
Talk page messages^[a]^[1]	Miniature orange bar of doom^[b]	Looks like other alerts^[2]	Sometimes, since June 2022^[3]^[c]	Looks like other alerts
Other alerts^[a]	Yes^[d]	Yes	Sometimes, since June 2022^[3]^[c]	Yes^[5]
Custom block messages	Yes	Yes^[6]	Yes, since March 2023^[7]	Yes^[8]
Partial block shown as partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[8]
Editnotices^[e]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[9]	Yes^[10]	Yes^[11]
Talk page banners	Yes	Hidden behind tiny button^[12]	Prominently shown, but some messages are mangled	Shown as a regular section^[g]
Custom edit filter messages	Yes	Yes	Yes, since March 2023	Mostly^[h]^[13]
CentralNotices^[i]	Yes	Yes	No	No

Old IP editors (before 2026)

Since November 4, 2025, the following table no longer applies. With the introduction of temporary accounts, logged out users are able to receive notifications as if they were logged in users.

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Editor Feature	Desktop	Mobile web	iOS app	Android app
Tag	N/a	Mobile web edit	iOS app edit	Android app edit
Talk page messages^[a]^[1]	Peach bar of doom.	Flaky^[14]^[j]	No^[15]	Kinda, but subject to certain weird limitations^[k]^[16]
Other alerts^[a]	N/a	N/a	N/a	N/a
Custom block messages	Yes	Yes^[6]	Yes, since March 2023^[7]	Flaky^[17]
Partial block shown as partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes^[8]
Editnotices^[l]	Yes^[f]	Yes^[9]	Yes^[10]	Yes^[11]
Talk page banners	Yes	Hidden behind tiny button^[12]	Prominently shown, but some messages are mangled	Shown as a regular section^[g]
Custom edit filter messages	Yes	Yes	Yes, since March 2023	Mostly^[h]^[13]
CentralNotices^[i]	Yes	Yes	No	No

Notes

[a]
Users with a confirmed email address will get an email by default, but this can be turned off in their preferences.
[b]
Shown in Vector (default), MonoBook, and Modern skins. Looks like other alerts in Timeless and MinerveNeue skins.
[c]
By default, push notifications are off. Unless turned on, the only indication of a new message is a tiny red dot on the homepage. It will not be seen while browsing or editing articles. On some non-mainspace pages, the Vector-2022 interface is shown, and that includes the standard alerts.
[d]
(fixed January 2023) On Minerva skin (on desktop), notifications that are not alerts were not shown when opening the notification area. This means notifications like "thanks", "(pagename) has been reviewed" and "(user) replied in (topic)" were not shown. Mentions and talk page message notifications are alerts, so those were not affected.^[4]
[e]
See also meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Mobile and apps/Mobile editnotices and phab:T201613. The WMF intends to pick this up. For individual wikis, a workaround for mobile web exists.
[f]
When using DiscussionTools, the notices are only shown for new sections. Before 8 July 2022, on the desktop Minerva skin, the notices were not shown since 18 July 2017.
[g]
They are shown as a regular section without subject, and also don't necessarily show up in a fixed location in the section list
[h]
Links in the message open in the browser, and go the language wiki of the users primary language (ie the first language they've set)
This means that as an example that an user whose languages are set as Dutch, English will always have links go to the Dutch Wikipedia, even when the message is displayed on the English Wikipedia
[i]
CentralNotice banners can be configured to display only on some device classes as needed.
[j]
Alert should appear on non-mainspace pages, and any time the user taps "edit". However a caching bug often prevents the alert from showing.
[k]
Requires the IP to save another page before showing it, and looks like a normal alert
[l]
See also meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Mobile and apps/Mobile editnotices and phab:T201613. The WMF intends to pick this up. For individual wikis, a workaround for mobile web exists.

Phabricator tickets

[1]
Unregistered users with IPv6 addresses cannot be reached via their user talk page as there are no dedicated user talk pages for /64 ranges (T112325)
[2]
phab:T240976: Mobile "new messages" notification should be more intrusive by default
[3]
phab:T274404: Support notifications on the iOS app
[4]
phab:T306737 On Minerva desktop, notification icon only opens alerts (never notifications)
[5]
phab:T281413: Show notifications about Talk messages while browsing articles.
[6]
phab:T261944: Show full reason in mobile block message drawer
[7]
phab:T275118: iOS app does not show block messages
[8]
phab:T276147: Android application does not show block messages
[9]
Via T316178 and JavaScript gadget. See also mw:Edit Check project
[10]
phab:T201596: iOS app does not display certain edit notices
[11]
phab:T201597: Android app does not display certain edit notices
[12]
phab:T312309: Unify experience for making lead section content available on mobile talk pages
[13]
phab:T276139: Android application does not display custom AbuseFilter messages
[14]
phab:T295910: Yellow talk page message banner appearing inconsistently on edit page
[15]
phab:T312196: IP editor talk page notification
[16]
phab:T291481: Determine approach for notifications for IP Editors on Android
[17]
phab:T276149: Android application sometimes falsely claims that a user account is blocked

Phabricator tickets

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