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Q: No text notifications on Apple Watch
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Dec 25, 2015 10:57 AMby Jonathan UK,Hi
How notifications behave depends on the status of your devices. In order to bring notifications to your attention as soon as possible:
- If your iPhone is unlocked, you will receive notifications on your iPhone instead of on your watch.
- If your iPhone is locked or asleep and your watch is unlocked and on your wrist, you will receive notifications on your watch.
- If your watch is locked or has Do Not Disturb enabled, notifications will go to your iPhone.
More information:
About notifications on your Apple Watch - Apple Support
You may find that if you turn off Wrist Detection (on your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > General > Wrist Detection) it will cause all notification alerts to be delivered to both devices. However, you will not then be able to benefit from features including Apple Pay and a single unlock after placing the watch on your wrist.
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Dec 25, 2015 10:57 AMby Jonathan UK,Also check your settings:
On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch (bottom left tab) > Sound & Haptics:
- Check the Alert Volume;
- Check that Silent Mode is not enabled;
- Check that Haptic Strength is set to the middle or far right hand side of the slider.
On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > Messages:
- Perhaps choose Custom and check - under Alerts - that Show Alerts, Sound and Haptic are each enabled.
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Dec 25, 2015 10:59 AMby Jonathan UK,Also check your settings:
On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch (bottom left tab) > Sound & Haptics:
- Check the Alert Volume;
- Check that Silent Mode is not enabled;
- Check that Haptic Strength is set to the middle or far right hand side of the slider.
On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > Messages:
- Perhaps choose Custom and check - under Alerts - that Show Alerts, Sound and Haptic are each enabled.
