Apple Watch 7 No sound from watch speaker

I had the same issue where the watch wouldn't vibrate or make any sounds. After spending a ton of time going through the settings, and not getting it to work; I restarted the watch and everything started working again.

FIx that worked for me: Restart the watch.

I’ve been having this issue for several weeks on and off. Each time, restarting the watch temporarily resolves the issue, but it reoccurs for unknown reasons. i haven’t been able to determine what triggers the sound to stop working.

I’m hoping Apple can resolve this in an upcoming software update.

Hi there JohnXSing,

We understand you're not hearing sounds from your Apple Watch. See whether the information available here helps: Change the audio and notification settings on your Apple Watch

If that doesn't provide a solution for you, check to see whether your Apple Watch notifications are set to mirror your iPhone settings. You can find assistance with this part, here: Notifications on your Apple Watch

We hope this helps!

Thanks for keeping us up to speed JohnXSing,

Were you able to review notification settings on your iPhone, and ensure Do Not Disturb, or Silent isn't enabled there?

If you power the Apple Watch off, then back on is there any change?

Should the behavior persist, the best next step will be to contact Apple Support, who can work with you to investigate further, find the cause, and offer an appropriate solution.

Take care!

I am experiencing the same problem. I checked all settings both in watch and on my phone and the watch app on my phone. Turned everything to make sound and nothing…

Same here. Apple watch 7. Not making any sound or vibration from notifications. Siri can't speak. Pressing side button entering power off screen won't make watch vibrate as well. Restating watch helps but it'll happen again somehow.

This is extremely annoying as I couldn’t receive any notifications from my phone unless I check them manually. Missed a zoom meeting because of this. Please fix asap.

Same issue with my Apple Watch 4. It seems that the sound issue started when I updated the WatchOS recently. I tried to restart, but no luck. I tried to reset it, also no luck. I tried to reset and pair it with my wife’s iphone 11 pro with latest iOS, and the watch works!!! I reset it again and repaired it with my iphone X, and again the sound does not work on the Watch! Both iphones are running on iOS 15.1. Any idea how to solve this issue? Otherwise, how can I revert both my iphone X and my Watch to previous OS that was working ?

Same issue for me - Watch randomly stops making any sounds (including alarms and timers) until a reboot fixes it.. Running 8.1.1 (19R580) with iPhone 12 Pro Max (MGDL3B/A) using iOS 15.1.1

Please investigate!

I had this same thing happen to me last night. about 1-week old apple watch series 7 stainless steel.

Water mode would also make no sound to expel water, and the haptics on the crown was missing.

Decided to shut down (slide to power off) and turn on the watch about a couple of minutes ago, and now everything seems to work as normal.

Same problem here, with a caveat. It also hung up installing the 8.3 update. Said it was paused until it was on a charger, at least 50% power and phone near by.

Met all the criteria and still nothing.

Restarted the watch and ran the update. No issues since.

two days later notices my gf’s series 7 was going the samething. Same fix worked.

I have this issue since weeks and it's a real problem because my morning alert doesn't wake me up when the watch doesn't make sound or haptics. The only way to fix it is to reboot. I will try to reset my watch as a last resort

It worked. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204510

thanks!

I was having this same issue - started yesterday- I restarted my watch after reading the posts here and the restart worked for me.