sound when a text is received
My phone and watch don't ring when a text is received
Apple Watch Series 7, watchOS 8
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On you iPhonE tap on:
Settings > Notifications > Messages > Sounds
and select a sound. And then (still on the iPhone) tap on:
Watch > My Watch > Notifications
and select 'Mirror my iPhone'.
If those settings are OK and you still have problems, then the first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:
How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Restart your iPhone - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.
Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support