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What year will I be able to get notifications of a phone call or text coming in on my watch and on my phone at the same time like I get with an alarm? Or timer?
Apple Watch SE, watchOS 9
In addition to what Carol B said, phone calls usually do come to the watch and phone at the same time. On your Apple Watch App on your iPhone, make sure you have Mirror your iPhone turned on for Phone Calls. But text notifications do NOT. And that is by design. If your iPhone screen is active, meaning you are using your phone, a text notifications will come to your phone. If you phone screen off (phone not in use) and you are wearing your watch, the notification will come to your watch, not your iPhone. Again, this is totally by design and exactly as Apple designed notifications to work. The rule is notifications will come to your iPhone or your Apple Watch, but NOT to both.
Read this link about Notifications on Apple Watch --> Notifications on your Apple Watch – Apple Support (UK)
What should happen:
We are not fortune tellers in this user to user, community forum 😉 so cannot predict a year. But I can tell you why the delay occurs.
The phone calls and messages arrive at your iPhone first. The the iPhone sends them over to the watch. Hence, a slight delay. The same thing happens to me if I set an alarm or timer on my iPhone. Slight delay.
But if I set the alarm or timer on my watch, then the watch responds immediately. Hope this helps.
In addition to what Carol B said, phone calls usually do come to the watch and phone at the same time. On your Apple Watch App on your iPhone, make sure you have Mirror your iPhone turned on for Phone Calls. But text notifications do NOT. And that is by design. If your iPhone screen is active, meaning you are using your phone, a text notifications will come to your phone. If you phone screen off (phone not in use) and you are wearing your watch, the notification will come to your watch, not your iPhone. Again, this is totally by design and exactly as Apple designed notifications to work. The rule is notifications will come to your iPhone or your Apple Watch, but NOT to both.
Read this link about Notifications on Apple Watch --> Notifications on your Apple Watch – Apple Support (UK)
Thanks, Lobsterghost1.
I’m sorry, yes the phone And watch will ring if I get a phone call. but if I get a text, I only get it on my phone not my watch same with an email.
I had an appointment at the Apple Store with the service guy and he said that was the way it is for emails and texts. If I set the other configuration to mirror, then I get notification on my watch, but not my phone for a text or email.
I do understand the reason for the delay that you’re talking about for the timer or call and where it gets priority from.
You're most welcome Carol B!
What should happen:
Ever since I started using my watch my iPhone stopped sounding incoming mail and text messages. I’ve got Mirror on as well as notifications. Is there something else I can try?
Bawy76 wrote:
Ever since I started using my watch my iPhone stopped sounding incoming mail and text messages. I’ve got Mirror on as well as notifications. Is there something else I can try?
No, your notifications are working as designed. Read the Apple Recommended response just below the original post, where this link is attached --> Notifications on your Apple Watch – Apple Support (UK)
In that link it's noted that notifications come to your Apple Watch OR your iPhone, but NOT to both. If your iPhone screen is open (meaning you are using it), notifications will come to your phone. If your iPhone screen is locked (you're not using your iPhone), notifications will come to your watch. This is by design and there is no setting to defeat this.
I “get” my messages but that’s not the problem. The problem is that I don’t “hear” that I got them. In other words there is no “sound” from my phone to tell me that I got mail or a text. I did not have this problem before I started using my watch. Any suggestions?
If the iPhone screen is dark (not on) while you are wearing your Apple Watch, you won't get a notification sound on your iPhone. You get the notification sound or tap from Haptics on your watch. Yes, the notification will appear on your phone. But the sound alert won't happen on your iPhone. This is by design as was detailed in the Notifications link I provided above.
I don't have alert sounds on my watch as I have set it up so that when I'm wearing my watch and my iPhone screen is dark, I get a haptic tap to my wrist. And I have the haptic tap set as Prominent and you can turn that haptic tap to be quite strong, so you can't possibly miss that a notification is available and can be seen on your watch.
For what it’s worth I think that is the dumbest thing ever! I’m guessing there’s must be some technical reason for it but, in the very least, it should definitely be an option for the user to decide on and I’m sure I’m not the first person to say that!
Is there a chance it will be available sometime soon?
You're certainly entitled to your opinion. Me personally? I like it. I don't need my watch and my phone to make a sound at the same time. And I know people around me appreciate it. In fact, since I only use Haptics on my watch, no one near me hears anything, yet I'm notified just fine.
Whether Apple will change this in the future, I doubt it. It's been this way since the dawn of Apple Watch. But you are more than welcome to share your thoughts with Apple (this is after all a user to user only forum, which Apple doesn't participate in) by sharing your thoughts here --> Feedback - Watch - Apple
Note: I provided the link for Apple Watch feedback as this an issue about Apple Watch, not really about iPhone.
It is not a technical reason; it is to avoid annoyance. If you got alerts on both devices, the forum would be flooded with posts complaining about “why do I have to be notified twice of every text and email. So annoying; what was Apple thinking?"
You can tell Apple you think it should work differently. The best place to suggest something to Apple is here→Product Feedback - Apple. But it’s worked this way since the first Apple watch, and there have been very few complaints about it here in ASC.
BTW, I get alerts on both my Watch and my iPad. I hate it when that happens.
In my case I don’t seem to be getting the sound notifications on my watch. I totally get and appreciate the aggravation of the double notice but my watch is not “sounding” the notice. I’ve tried all the things that are supposed to make it work consistently.
Bawy76 wrote:
In my case I don’t seem to be getting the sound notifications on my watch. I totally get and appreciate the aggravation of the double notice but my watch is not “sounding” the notice. I’ve tried all the things that are supposed to make it work consistently.
It's hard for us to guess what "all the things" are you've tried. Notifications on my Apple Watch, when my iPhone screen is locked are totally consistent. I have gone into the Apple Watch App on my iPhone and set up notifications for everything I can be notified for to be haptic taps, which are prominent and have adjusted the intensity of those taps for all notifications.
Phone call notifications and text notifications simultaneously on watch and phone
