Apple Watch 7 - WhatsApp notifications only showing when disabling “Wrist Detection” !

Hi Pedro_UK,

We understand that you're not able to receive WhatsApp messages on your Apple Watch series 7, but do receive them on your iPhone. Since this is only happening with WhatsApp, we recommend reaching out to that developer. This article shows you how to: How to contact an app developer.

Hope this helps!

I have the same problem, and strange that i couldn’t find any solution in google cuz seems like it started appearing with new series 7 and new WatchOS version, and iphone 12 and higher, anyway, i do have all notifications on the phone and everything is turned on in settings, i mean all notifications in watchOS for whatsup, and no messages or notifications for missed calls, totally nothing, but from all other messengers all great working.

I’ve had exactly the same problem the disabling wrist detection works for me too. So WhatsApp messages now appearing, but concerned about the features that have been disabled. Apple, please look into this.

I’ve just bought the series 7 and have the same issue - no more notifications from WhatsApp like I had on my series 5 and series 2.

apple - will you be doing a bug fix please?

I can’t do the wrist thing workaround - I don’t have any way of disabling it.

Please help as I am not getting WhatsApp notifications on my Apple Watch series 7. Have disabled “wrist detection “ option too but still not getting notifications. Am I missing some other settings or what?

Thanks

Narendra

Hi

I’ve just bought the series 7 too and having the same problem. I’ve turned off wrist detection but still not receiving WhatsApp messages.

This is a bind as most of my contacts use WhatsApp!!

Can anyone help any further?

i turned off the wrist detection and the whatsapp txt did pop up, i then turned on the detection and did some on/off few times on both the iphone and watch the trick worked even the wrist detection was on.

I finally found a solution to get whatsapp notification on my series 7 apple watch by disabling wrist detection, thanks Pedro, you cleared a major issue here!

I've been having the exact same issue and assumed I was just stupid!

I disable the wrist detection and it worked! After that I enable the wrist detection again and the whatsapp pop up txt still working on my watch! 😁

Hi,

On your iPhone, access whatsApp and make a backup. Then uninstall it and re-install it. Notifications will start appearing on the watch. I did it like this and it worked!

A. Braga