diff --git a/ts/background.ts b/ts/background.ts
index f987a8ac40..6daa36f61d 100644
--- a/ts/background.ts
+++ b/ts/background.ts
@@ -305,10 +305,6 @@ export async function startApp(): Promise<void> {
       })
     );
     messageReceiver.addEventListener('empty', queuedEventListener(onEmpty));
-    messageReceiver.addEventListener(
-      'reconnect',
-      queuedEventListener(onReconnect)
-    );
     messageReceiver.addEventListener(
       'configuration',
       queuedEventListener(onConfiguration)
@@ -2395,18 +2391,6 @@ export async function startApp(): Promise<void> {
       await window.crashReports.getCount()
     );
   }
-  function onReconnect() {
-    // We disable notifications on first connect, but the same applies to reconnect. In
-    //   scenarios where we're coming back from sleep, we can get offline/online events
-    //   very fast, and it looks like a network blip. But we need to suppress
-    //   notifications in these scenarios too. So we listen for 'reconnect' events.
-    profileKeyResponseQueue.pause();
-    lightSessionResetQueue.pause();
-    onDecryptionErrorQueue.pause();
-    onRetryRequestQueue.pause();
-    window.Whisper.deliveryReceiptQueue.pause();
-    notificationService.disable();
-  }
 
   let initialStartupCount = 0;
   window.Whisper.events.on('incrementProgress', incrementProgress);
diff --git a/ts/textsecure/MessageReceiver.ts b/ts/textsecure/MessageReceiver.ts
index 0365fa0129..7aa8a0ddc6 100644
--- a/ts/textsecure/MessageReceiver.ts
+++ b/ts/textsecure/MessageReceiver.ts
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ import type {
   ProcessedEnvelope,
   IRequestHandler,
 } from './Types.d';
-import type { ReconnectEvent, EnvelopeEvent } from './messageReceiverEvents';
 import {
   EmptyEvent,
+  EnvelopeEvent,
   ProgressEvent,
   TypingEvent,
   ErrorEvent,
@@ -361,11 +361,6 @@ export default class MessageReceiver
   // EventTarget types
   //
 
-  public override addEventListener(
-    name: 'reconnect',
-    handler: (ev: ReconnectEvent) => void
-  ): void;
-
   public override addEventListener(
     name: 'empty',
     handler: (ev: EmptyEvent) => void
@@ -1002,6 +997,11 @@ export default class MessageReceiver
 
       logId = this.getEnvelopeId(unsealedEnvelope);
 
+      this.addToQueue(
+        async () => this.dispatchEvent(new EnvelopeEvent(unsealedEnvelope)),
+        TaskType.Decrypted
+      );
+
       return this.decryptEnvelope(stores, unsealedEnvelope, uuidKind);
     }, `MessageReceiver: unseal and decrypt ${logId}`);
 
diff --git a/ts/textsecure/messageReceiverEvents.ts b/ts/textsecure/messageReceiverEvents.ts
index 86b6731029..b2b80d9a3d 100644
--- a/ts/textsecure/messageReceiverEvents.ts
+++ b/ts/textsecure/messageReceiverEvents.ts
@@ -15,12 +15,6 @@ import type {
   ModifiedGroupDetails,
 } from './ContactsParser';
 
-export class ReconnectEvent extends Event {
-  constructor() {
-    super('reconnect');
-  }
-}
-
 export class EmptyEvent extends Event {
   constructor() {
     super('empty');