No text alerts on iPhone when watch is connected

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Flyboy1997 Author

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No text alerts on iPhone when watch is connected

I find no way to get notifications on the watch while also preserving the audio/screen alert on the iPhone.

The watch seems to override. The screen on my phone doesn't even wake when getting a notification.

Hopefully I'm just missing a configuration option somewhere.

I like notifications on the watch, but I still want my phone act exactly as it would if the watch were not getting notifications. I should be able to have the same functionality with the Apple Watch.

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This question was asked in 2015 but there has never been a satisfactory answer. Hasn't Apple come up with anything yet? How about this Community ?

I have an iPhone 10 Xr and a Series 5 watch both with the latest updates and automatic update turned on.

Apple Watch Series 5, watchOS 8

Posted on Feb 24, 2022 9:45 AM

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Flyboy1997 Author

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Feb 24, 2022 10:57 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Thanks to both of you. That seems really dumb to me. I wear hearing aids and need all the help I can get to know a message is coming in. Phone calls ring out loud just fine and sync to my hearing aids when I answer on my phone, but the conversation goes through the watch if I answer there.

I will take razemee209's advice and ask for a "fix" for people with a hearing disability. (Yet another fine gift from Viet Nam)

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razmee209

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Feb 24, 2022 10:37 AM in response to Flyboy1997

Flyboy1997 wrote:

I find no way to get notifications on the watch while also preserving the audio/screen alert on the iPhone.

The watch seems to override. The screen on my phone doesn't even wake when getting a notification.

Hopefully I'm just missing a configuration option somewhere.

I like notifications on the watch, but I still want my phone act exactly as it would if the watch were not getting notifications. I should be able to have the same functionality with the Apple Watch.

NOTE:

This question was asked in 2015 but there has never been a satisfactory answer. Hasn't Apple come up with anything yet? How about this Community ?

I have an iPhone 10 Xr and a Series 5 watch both with the latest updates and automatic update turned on.

Doesn't work that way, it's either the phone or the watch that gets the notification. Don't like it let Apple know here Product Feedback - Apple

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Flyboy1997 Author

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Feb 27, 2022 5:46 AM in response to KateC810

Since you replied to my question rather than posting your own, you may want to look at all the answers to mine. The short version is that this is the way Apple has it designed and as users we cannot change it. I have just resigned myself to that (as with many other facts of existence ) and just leave it alone.

What you do is up to you, but I think having them paired is more useful than the irritating inability of missing an occasional text. I just have the volume for texts as loud as it will go on my watch and if yours also has Haptics (vibration on your wrist) make sure that's on, too.

This would be a very simple coding change if Apple chose to do it, but we live with what we have. I can only guess that, in some way Apple believes they get some additional revenue by leaving it this way. I see no other reason for it to be something the user can't set the way they want.

Good luck.

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KateC810

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Feb 27, 2022 7:31 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

It happens when my watch is not anywhere near me. I decided to unpair the watch from my phone to see if that helps. This was never a problem with my previous phone, a 6s. I'm beginning to regret trading "up."

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Feb 27, 2022 7:55 AM in response to Flyboy1997

Flyboy1997 wrote:

This would be a very simple coding change if Apple chose to do it, but we live with what we have. I can only guess that, in some way Apple believes they get some additional revenue by leaving it this way. I see no other reason for it to be something the user can't set the way they want.

Good luck.

I can’t imagine any what that Apple can get revenue from how you are alerted. But I can imagine what would happen if alerts went both to the phone and the watch. “Apple, why are you bugging me by alerting on BOTH my phone and my watch! You can’t imagine how annoying this is! I keep thinking I’ve gotten 2 alerts when I only have one!"

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Feb 24, 2022 10:40 AM in response to Flyboy1997

That is correct; it is working as designed. Alerts will be on the watch rather than the phone when you are wearing the watch, unless the phone screen is unlocked.

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KateC810

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Feb 26, 2022 12:46 PM in response to Flyboy1997

I have the same problem, although I don't have an iWatch, just a knockoff. Should I unpair?

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