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Q: calendar alerts are terribly broken

There are few things making me think of returning apple watch, but how broken the calendar alerts is up there. As near as I can tell you will not receive an alert on your phone if you are on your Mac and have Outlook open and get a meeting reminder there. However, like most people I have Outlook open all day - sometimes i am walking around my office, at the whiteboard, talking on the phone, and generally not paying attention to my monitor, or I'm out of my office grabbing lunch or talking to a colleague. In those moments I was really hoping apple watch would be a notification I couldn't miss about upcoming meetings - a nice 15m reminder followed by a 1m reminder - but nope! It seems only if my phone is not being used and my computer is sleeping do i get alerts on my watch.

 

It honestly feels like the whole alert and taptic system is buggy as **** - I've received probably 10 notifications with haptics since I got this thing 6 days ago (not including messages which seems to work fine) - I was hoping to have to tame notification overload, instead I'm missing more than when I only had my phone.

 

Anybody else have any luck getting notifications to come through consistently and accurately?

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Posted on May 6, 2015 5:07 AM

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  • by nick101,

    nick101 nick101 May 6, 2015 5:37 AM in response to BonaHoTep1
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    May 6, 2015 5:37 AM in response to BonaHoTep1

    This is all working p[roperly here - I get notifications, I can see upcoming events and reminders. My only gripe is that I maintain multiple calendars and I don't want all of them on the watch.

     

    There are two things you can try that might fix this:

     

    1. Reset the watch

    2. Unpair and re-pair the wathc with the phone

  • by B User,

    B User B User Aug 26, 2015 10:01 AM in response to BonaHoTep1
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    Aug 26, 2015 10:01 AM in response to BonaHoTep1

    I believe this is a serious bug with the new Watch OS.

    It was initially working perfectly with the initial Watch OS, and was one of the main reasons I bought the watch; (silent, haptic reminders while I am with patients is important to me.)  After the update, it no longer worked.

    I have reset and repaired, both from backup and clean startup, many times.  Indeed, Apple even replaced my watch and the problem persisted.

    I can only hope that they get it right with the next Watch OS upgrade.