Messages don't mirror between iPhone and watch

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Messages don't mirror between iPhone and watch

I have an iPhone (XSMax) and Apple Watch (series 5). Both are up to date on the OS. I have Messages turned on in my iCloud account. Even though I have Mirror iPhone checked on the Apple Watch OS, it doesn't. When I delete a message from the iPhone, it doesn't delete from the Apple Watch. Many of my messages are just one time access codes as I have 2FA turned on for a lot of my online accounts. So texts just accumulate on the watch and then when you try to delete them, you can only do it one at a time from the watch unlike the iPhone where you can select edit and do many at a time. I am tempted just to turn off Messages on the Watch but can't figure out how to do that either.

Apple Watch Series 5

Posted on Jan 30, 2022 8:36 AM

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Ozzie1910

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Jan 30, 2022 8:48 AM in response to mb34

Messages and mails can’t be delete from the Apple Watch when you delete them from the iPhone messages app, or Mac iPad iPod they stays there , you are not the only one that find it that , what you have to do is that message that you receive and the watch alerts an incoming message tap it over then delete it

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Ozzie1910

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Feb 2, 2022 2:15 PM in response to mb34

no problem , yeah I did once commented that to a apple advisor over a phone call and since they make the watch and iMessages across all devices does not delete in all when you delete them in one device so they call like your own or self backup if you think you had something important that delete by accident and we have other devices then we can get those important messages saved in other devices

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mb34 Author

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Jan 31, 2022 8:27 AM in response to Ozzie1910

Hmmm. If that is true, then they ought not call it Mirroring. I assumed it meant that the two devices stayed in sync. I wish they would fix it so they would stay in sync. It is annoying to have to do the same thing across multiple devices. Thanks for your reply.

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Mar 16, 2022 8:44 AM in response to mb34

Am I reading this correctly? There is no way to get my Apple Watch to mirror my iPhone? I hate having 99 notifications in my message bubble. This used to not be a problem but I really do not like deleting the same message twice.

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mb34 Author

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Mar 16, 2022 8:52 AM in response to hayabusasilly

Unfortunately apparently true. At least I haven’t figured out how to. I wish the devices would truly sync.

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Messages don't mirror between iPhone and watch

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