Messages Notifications Not Working Intermittently on Apple Watch

Hi just found something I just signed into messages for the first time on my MacBook Pro and stayed signed in and I missed a few texts on my iWatch6. But I was on the laptop at that time. When I found that happened I freaked out for a second but remembered that I opened messages on my Mac. I went and signed out of messages and texted my wife and a few friends and the watch worked fine. I thought about you guys and came here to tell you what I found. Check you Macs and iPads and make sure you are singed out of messages. Hope that helps some of you. Stay safe Brian

I found that too, it’s even worse if you sign into iPad, but to honest no matter what I do since watch iOS 6 and iOS 13 the watch will miss a text randomly. It can be as little as a couple of times a weeks. It’s always when I need to see the text as well. Since putting the watch away I have also noticed while your on the phone you phone doesn’t even notify of a text on iOS 14 and this is every time so presumably it’s deliberate. This is probably a feature but you should be able to turn it off. Apple is pushing me more and more towards android everyday, their software is just getting awful 😔 and a move to android would be an absolutely nuclear ☢️ option so going to wait a few months and hope to go it improves.

Can I just add when I say you don’t get a notification when you one the phone this is speaking on the phone holding it to your ear or using air pods not if your doing other tasks on it. On speaker phone it will pop on the screen but still be a silent notification

Well here's an update. I went nuclear. Got sick to death of bugs that have been around since ios 13. Sold the iphone bought a one plus 8 pro for nearly half the money. No bugs no notification issues watch or volume issues. One happy chappy. I hope you guys don't experience any problems and that they get sorted but after dealing with none solved issues for over a year it just got too much considering it was a £1050 phone.

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to share how I fixed mine doing the same exact thing. I unpaired my apple watch from my iPhone, repaired it WITHOUT installing from the backup data.

Since I've done this, it's worked perfectly. I wanted to post this in case this would work for anyone else!

UPDATE for anyone out there still dealing with this issue. What fixed this for me was doing the following:

On your iPhone Go to Settings -> Messages -> Send & Receive

Make sure that you have enabled receive messages from your iCloud account.

Once this is enabled you will get some notifications on your other apple devices that an apple watch has been setup to receive messages and that should correct the issues.

None of what had been suggested in this thread had worked for me until the very last message from carbon_based_l1fe, but with a twist. All of the numbers/addresses listed under Send & Receive had a check mark next to them, but what I did was go thru and uncheck and re-check each one. After that, it started working like a charm and the text notifications began to come thru to my Apple Watch once again.

Hey all, I am using an iPhone 11 and Apple Watch 6. Have been chasing this demon for a few hours and have solved the problem with these changes, in the Watch messages settings;

Custom

Send to notification centre

Sound and Haptic (both on)

I don’t get notifications through the watch but my phone now is acting normal.

I have apple watch 4 and I buy recently Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Before I use an old IPHONE 7 Plus and all works great.

On my old Iphone 7 plus paired with my apple watch 4 all notifications works as expected on both watch and iphone at the same time but after I update to Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max I cannot receive anymore my notifications on both like before.

I only can receive my notifications when I disconnect my Bluetooth but this is not an option because I have other accessories that need Bluetooth.

Please Apple fix this, there is a lot but a lot of people with this problem and is clear this is a software bug because my Apple Watch 4 and my iphone 7 plus using today last firmware and IOS 14, both are working with notifications without any problem.

Only my new Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max and my Apple Watch 4 serie are experimenting this notifications problems when Bluetooth are turned on.

I want to have the option to receive my notifications on both Apple Watch and IPHONE at the same time.

APPLE please fix this for us.

Best regards,

aCiDeViL

Hi all,

same problem for me: Apple Watch Series 1 Product Red, notifications arrive sometimes but sometimes not. Did a full reset, repairing, sw upgrade. Everything. Still receiving the notifications erratically on my Apple Watch.

I have had the same problem for a long time, same Apple watch series 3 but different phones from my company. We also use AT&T as our carrier. I notice the problem most often after I put the watch back on and unlock it, usually this is when I don't see text notifications or the texts themselves on my watch. I have found that if I turn on airplane mode for a few seconds and then turn it off I will get the notifications and texts on my watch.

I've had this problem for months. Even though I have the watch set to mirror the phone my watch does not always get the message. I do understand that when the iPhone screen is live, the messages only show up on the phone. My problem occurs intermittently when the phone is locked (screen is dark).

Would the Wi-Fi environment have anything to do with this? I am on a mesh network, the watch (4) is at 2.4 MHz and the phone (11 pro) at 5 MHz.

I contacted apple support about that case and they "work on it" for last two weeks. I see this is something that apple can't figure and can't sort out for years now, so it is a pity that the biggest company in the world is selling solutions that doesn't work and can't solve its own problems. Ridiculous.

Try this - go to settings, Sounds and Haptics, and check to see if you have a tone set for "text tone". My wife and I were having this issue and going crazy trying to figure it out. We both have Apple Watch 5 / iPhone 12 Pro and could not get text haptic or sound alerts on watch. Once a 'text tone' was selected, it worked with both sound and for haptic only after that. Apologies if this has already been posted and did not work for some, but it worked for us.

Sorry to hear that. I swore it was intermittent (I am also on AT&T). I'll keep an eye on it. That option is there for the person who said it wasn't.