cannot turn off apple headphone notifications on watch

I would start on the iPhone first

Settings, Accessibility, Audio Visual, turn off Headphone Notifications.

Then do the same in Watch app, My Watch, Accessibility, turn off Headphone Notifications.

Then in the Watch itself, Settings, Bluetooth tap the (i) next to the paired device, then Device Type, then set Speaker.

This should work in every country, the reports of it being impossible to turn off come from about 3 years ago (when you couldnt!).

Are you sure that you can't turn it off?

Open the Watch app on your paired iPhone.

Scroll down to and click on "Noise".

Turn the "Environmental Sound Measurements" off if it's currently on.

Next, open the Health app on your paired iPhone.

Click on "Browse" in the lower right corner of the screen.

Click on "Hearing".

Click on "Headphone Audio Levels"

Scroll to the very bottom of the screen and then click on "Headphone Notifications".

On the next screen, you can turn On and Off notifications for the Watch and/or the iPhone.

That just strikes me as odd because we live in the "Land of the free, home of the brave".

I'm going to continue to follow this post so that I can learn more about this. Hopefully someone will come along with the answers.

If not, maybe you could try to reach out to Apple support and get a fast and definitive answer. There are links at the top and bottom of this page.

That's what everyone said back then! We all blamed it on the European Union, but now it can be turned off who cares!

The Speaker device type setting and the Accessibility setting both do the same job but may as well do both.

This is what we in England call "Belt and Braces" (and for the Americans, Belt & Suspenders?)

He's the man! I've marked that response of his as Helpful since that's all I can do on my end 😉