i am guessing that the moderator deleted my other thread that I started where I detailed the problem I was having. In that thread I gave a lot of details about the actual problem .
After 4+ hours on the phone with Apple across 3 days and sending logs, screen shots, and then about 5 times more time me playing with the phone and watch, I think I found the problem on my own, in the Apple mail program on the phone. This was working great on IOS 16 I Hope that this helps someone.
It appears that in IOS 17, Apple changed how the Mail app works and interacts and pulls mail from Gmail and other (POP) providers and changed how often these types of accounts get mail (probably to save battery??)
So if you want you gmail to appear on the watch reliably, , you basically have two options
1- You can change the fetch duration from automatic to 15 min. As I understand it, in theory the phone will check Gmail and POP accounts every 15 min. After I changed this setting I had better results than the default "automatic" but I still I found it sporadic
2- The other option is to configure Gmail on the IOS mail app to think it is Microsoft Exchange. Making this change, will allow the phone to pull email from the server and then send it to the watch almost as soon as it arrives. Which is what I wanted... Warning. in a very old internet blog from 2021 on a different subject, I am told that this only works for PAID Gmail accounts. so someone should try it and let us know since I only have a paid account
so Now that my Gmail hosted account is notifying me with a tone, all that needs to be fixed is
- Haptic feedback is not working on most notifications
- I am only getting the notification pop up on the watch randomly.
I am hoping on an upcoming IOS update will fix these things since I believe it is a little beyond my hacking skills :)
I hope this helps someone.
Gary.
