Stand Notifications Not Consistent

Hello riazada,

This discussion post has an Apple recommended answer - Time to Stand notification not working - Apple Community. Please let me know if this works!

You can also read this if you believe you're not wearing your Apple Watch properly - Wearing your Apple Watch - Apple Support.

John Galt wrote:

Turning Stand Notifications off and on again may have fixed it. The Watch didn't wake me to tell me to get off my *** and walk around a bit last night. Hopefully it sticks.

I hope it's a lasting solution. I'm feeling very pleased with myself that I was able to help you with something for a change. ;-)

Could you elaborate further on what you have tried? Saying "I’ve read all the things and all the settings are on" doesn't give us much to go off of.

From what you've given me, all I can recommend is following Time to Stand notification not working - Apple Community, to force restart your Apple Watch - Restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support, or maybe even trying a factory reset.

I will say the Series 3 is an old watch and does not support watchOS 9 or watchOS 10 (coming this Fall). I don't believe this would affect Stand progress, but it is something to consider.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

The hourly stand reminders on the Watch will keep reminding you unless you have sleep mode enabled.

That's what I thought. Yet my Watch still reminds me to stand up while I'm asleep. It's tracking my sleep accurately, so what am I missing?

Anything wrong with these settings?

None. Does this help?

Did you set up Sleep tracking in Health on your Watch?

Yes and it's working as expected, that is the Health app shows all expected recordings.

If I may anticipate your next question, yes I did contact AppleCare. They had no clue and no suggestions.

I can hyper focused and not notice the stand reminder. My wife may actually point out it is time to stand.

The opposite is also true. I’ll hear my wife’s Apple Watch stand reminder go off, and have to encourage her to stand.

Being hyper focused can affect the things we notice in our environment.

I have an alternative to the Apple Watch stand reminder. The iPhone “Alarmed” app from Yoctoville. I set an alarm each day starting at a specific hour. The alarm has an hourly “DayMinder” so it repeats each hour. Within the hour, I have the “Nag-Me” feature enabled to repeat every 10 minutes until I dismiss it.

Yes I get lots of alarms on my Apple Watch, at least until I stand and dismiss them (obviously actually standing is optional as far as the Alarmed app is concerned; but it works well to get me standing when I’m hyper focused).

I'm sure it, for some things, but for hourly stand reminders that stop after you've completed X times? This fitness app is supposed to do this, but it does not. I get totally arbitrary reminders when I least need them.

alwaysannoyedguy wrote:

I'm sure it, for some things, but for hourly stand reminders that stop after you've completed X times? This fitness app is supposed to do this, but it does not. I get totally arbitrary reminders when I least need them.

The hourly stand reminders on the Watch will keep reminding you unless you have sleep mode enabled. They don't stop when you've reached your goal.

Mine look the same. What apps do you have enabled in Settings for the Sleep focus? Did you set up Sleep tracking in Health on your Watch? I don't know that either of those things would make a difference, though.

Although my watch doesn't notify me to stand, it does record if I walked around enough to count.

John Galt wrote:

If I may anticipate your next question, yes I did contact AppleCare. They had no clue and no suggestions.

I'm not sure that would have been my next suggestion. I think my next suggestion would be to turn off sleep tracking on both devices, make an offering to the gods of tech by turning them both off and then turning sleep tracking on again. I would probably also try turning Stand Notifications off and back on. Pretty generic suggestions that you've probably also tried.

No, I had not tried them, and Apple did not suggest them. All they did was confirm my settings were correct.

Thank you for that suggestion. I'll try it. Hopefully the Watch will not wake me up to tell me to get up and walk around again tonight!

Alarmed is a great app!

Turning Stand Notifications off and on again may have fixed it. The Watch didn't wake me to tell me to get off my *** and walk around a bit last night. Hopefully it sticks.