I turned off Do Not Disturb to make sure I didn't miss a call from an unknown number and noticed a couple things happened both with it off and back on. While off the phone makes the notification sound but no icons are appearing on the top indicating I need to pull down the menu to see what notifications I've received. Also while Disturb is on (Maybe off to I don't know) I no longer get an icon on lock screen or top icon indicating I've received a txt message from favorited contacts.
Also in terms of when the Disturb is on, yes I do have exceptions enabled and the contacts favorited pertaining to that. I also only have a couple apps that have notifications turned off through app permissions. I can even go to the Notifications in Settings and it shows all the apps, with times it happened, where I should have gotten one but beyond the sound it never shows.
I have made no changes to the phone beyond briefly turning off Do Not Disturb and then back on. There have been no phone updates (It's too old).
I'm at a loss here. Anyone have an idea what happened. Going to restart just to see if anything happens, but I'm not optimistic.