Synchronizing Apple Watch Sleep alarms with iPhone
I have (2) Apple Watches connected to the same iPhone. I use the Sleep | Wake Up alarm feature on the iPhone as my daily alarm. Over the past months I've been frustrated with what feels like random synchronization between the three devices. I've experienced times where I've stopped the alarm on my phone and it stopped it (as expected) on the watches, where I've stopped it on the phone and it does NOT stop it on one of the watches, and where it changes which watch is synced to the phone and thus, goes off. I've tried to figure out the logic, but am struggling and frankly, I don't understand the implemented behavior. My expectation would be that after setting up the alarm, that all (3) devices would go off OR that I be allowed to configure which of the (3), possibly one, two or all three, go off. If I hit snooze or stop on any of the (3), that the rest automatically snooze as well. Today, I have to snooze BOTH the phone and one of the watches (the other doesn't seem to acknowledge the alarm). If the alarm goes off, I have to stop BOTH the phone and the watch. What often happens is that I'm in the middle of a snooze and decide to wake up. It's easy to stop the alarm on my phone, but I leave the bedside where the watch is and I have to open the watch and make sure to also stop it there, or it will go off in some minutes.
I'm not sure why this behavior is so complicated and not synchronized. It seems odd for Apple to implement in this manner and I wish the behavior could be simplified and synchronized to alleviate these frustrations.
Thank you and hopefully, there will be an update in a future iOS and WatchOS!
Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 8