Health App: High and Low Heart Rate Notification alerts not triggered because devices shown as 'None'

I often receive high heart rate notifications due to my supraventricular tachycardia (a.k.a. Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome). Lucky for you, I feel like I'm quite qualified to help you get this working. Just bear with me as we compare our phone/watch settings.

Open the Watch app on the paired iPhone.

Scroll down to and click on "Privacy".

Is the Heart Rate toggle green? It needs to be.

Go back, scroll down to Heart and click on it.

Is the toggle for "Irregular Rhythm" green? It needs to be.

Heart health notifications on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Check these settings for me and let me know.

It will not trigger a notification if you are active, you need to be inactive for ten minutes then it will check the heart rate (or if you get above the set heart rate it checks if you were active in the last ten minutes - same logic)

Basically if you are sitting in front of the TV all night and your heart goes above the limit it should notify you.

That's why I suggested setting a low rate to see if you trigger that.

Personally I rarely go above 55 on the TV sofa

As soon as you mentioned epilepsy I was remiss in not advising you to reach out for Apple Support and their health team.

The Community Specialist may well do that.

Click here > Contact - Official Apple Support  

or phone numbers  

Click here > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201232 

Or

Click here > Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

I'm at a loss here.

***Note - There are multiple pictures in this reply and a closing statement. If you don't see all the photos and the closing statement, click "Less" than click "Show more" until you can finally see the whole message (some sort of bug when viewing from a phone browser).***

Using your watch, open Settings, scroll down to and click on Heart, scroll down to and click on "High Heart Rate Notifications"

Where is the checkmark? Mine is on 110 BPM.

Go back then click on "Low Heart Rate Notifications"

Where is the checkmark? Mine is on 40 BPM.

Since 2019, I have 181 recordings for "High Heart Rate"

In the screenshot in my original post, you can see where the data was coming from.

"Jeff's Apple Watch" was a Series 3 watch.

"Jeff's Watch 8" is my current watch (Series 8)

In all that time (2019 to now), I've never had a "Low Heart Rate" event notification. Likewise, in the Data Source of the Low Heart Rate screen, there aren't any devices listed.

The "High Heart Rate" notifications only happen when my watch determines that my heart rate has been higher than 110 BPM, for at least 10 minutes, and while I don't appear to be active.

This is the conclusion that I'm coming to:

Although things are setup and ready, I don't believe that you have had any episodes that meet the requirements for a notification (heart rate at or above the BPM setting that has lasted for at least 10 minutes while inactive). Until these conditions are met, there isn't going to be a device listed in that section of "Data Source" (like there isn't anything listed for my low heartbeat Data Source).

If Apple comes back with a different conclusion and/or even gets a device to show up in that field, please PLEASE come back to this thread and let us know what they did so that we can help others more efficiently.

The "none" applies to app privacy not the watch privacy. Mine says the same thing. I have no third party apps that want to read or write to my my heart data.

If you set your notifications as I outlined above in Watch app settings to relatively low "high rate" and relatively high "Low rate" then you can see if it triggers a notification. Then set them to the real desired levels.

I goofed up in my reply above, the one that is missing all the pictures.

Here are the 4 pictures (in order).

***Remember - You may need to tap "Show more" then "Less" then "Show more" again if viewing from a phone browser***

High rate:

Low rate:

Then an actual screenshot of the watch notification:

It will show as a data source when it provides data. You cannot add a watch as a data source manually, it will add itself with the first notification.

I tested it as I suggested, I put in (for me) an artificially high "low rate" of 50bpm which I know I will drop below in a typical afternoon snooze. Darn thing woke me up!

My "Peter's Apple Watch SE" now shows up but my previous watch doesn't show as it has

never triggered this particular warning.

Other health data shows older Watch too

DrMattBishop,

I think that I just found a cheat that will help you get it set up and working!

Go into the Settings of the paired iPhone.

Settings, > Health, > Open Health Checklist and run through that.

And yes, LD150 is exactly right about the couch and watching TV.

That's when I often get the notifications. I also get them while in bed before falling to sleep and in the middle of the night while I am asleep.

Although there is an open heart surgery fix for SVT, I'm not too concerned about it because most of the time I bring on the high heart rate myself due to stress and just thinking about everything on my plate for work (self employed).

Rather than open heart surgery, I probably should just go find a job and work for someone else 🤷‍♂️

I have recordings for heart rates of up to and just over 180 BPM (not pictured). The Series 3 watch is how I found out about it. I used to feel it but thought that it was just heartburn. After getting the Series 3 and being notified, I figured out that the feeling wasn't heartburn 😂

How did you do that, a "test notification"?

Now that you got that, do things show up in the Low Heart Rate screen?

For instance, a record of that? And also, does your watch show up as a Data Source lower on the screen?

If you look at the screenshots that I added this morning, you'll see that I don't have any "Low Heart Rate" records and as such, the "Data Source" field is blank on that same screen.

DrMattBishop is merely trying to get his watch to appear as a Data Source for the High Heart Rate screen. My guess is that there isn't a way to program it, it's something that will be filled in whenever a High Heart Rate is finally detected and logged (of course while being inactive for at least 10 minutes).

That's fantastic! It also confirms my suspicions that I had came up with in my post from 2/19/23 at 1:38 PM (MDT).

I read that about your regular heart rate in your post from 2/20/23 at 5:01 AM (MDT) and wondered if that was how you did your "test".

So I will repeat my advice to DrMattBishop

Apple Watch...

All you need to do is in iphone Watch app, My Watch, Heart.

Put in your high and low rates suitable for you

That is it.

No need to add anything as a data source, it adds itself

Garmin Watch - absolutely no idea.