iPhone not ringing when wearing watch

We should have the option to choose or make the phone dominant even when wearing the watch so the phone rings or notifications are heard on the phone.

it would be terrific if this could be in a future update.

It's incredibly annoying that my Apple Watch overrides my IPhone ringer, as well as receiving calls on my MacAir. I like the watch, but I'll ditch it unless Apple allows connectivity to all my Apple devices. Fix this, please!

I have the same issue that many others are inquiring about. When wearing my watch, my phone does not ring nor let me know I have a text. I miss a lot of calls because I might be doing something and don’t notice my watch letting me know if in fact it does.

if I’m expecting an important call, I turn my watch off and leave it in the house. I can’t believe it would be difficult to get both Watch and phone to ring. It would certainly eliminate a lot of issues. Is it because someone doesn’t think people need that?

Open Control Center and make sure you are not in Theater Mode or have Do Not Disturb enabled.

Use Control Center on Apple Watch - Apple Support

Notifications appear on your Apple Watch or iPhone, but not both. If your iPhone is unlocked, you get notifications on your iPhone instead of your Apple Watch. If your iPhone is locked or asleep, you get notifications on your Apple Watch, unless your Apple Watch is locked. For more info, see:

Notifications on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support

If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Just go into your Apple Watch app on your phone go to passcode scroll down and turn wrist detection off and your sorted

This is helpful; it does indeed allow my phone to ring and to get calls on Mac Air. But it also turns off all the apps on the watch--heart rate, sleep tracking, etc--the very reasons for having an Apple watch. In effect, it turns a $400 Apple watch into a Timex I can buy for $30.

I'd like to have those apps and at the same time receive calls on my iPhone and MacBook. The watch should not have dominion over all other Apple devices. At the very least, I wish Apple would give us this choice.

gms71 wrote:

Just go into your Apple Watch app on your phone go to passcode scroll down and turn wrist detection off and your sorted

If you do this you loose these options. Why would you want you phone to ring if your wearing your watch?

Just go into your Apple Watch app on your phone go to passcode scroll down and turn wrist detection off and your sorted

it doesn’t turn the heart rate monitor off or sleep pattern monitor and which is more important for you

What don’t you suggest that to Apple or start you own thread. Your post has nothing to with the original post.

Just go into your Apple Watch app on your phone go to passcode scroll down and turn wrist detection off and your sorted

Just go into your Apple Watch app on your phone go to passcode scroll down and turn wrist detection off and your sorted

dont use all them other option, the text alert is more important than them to me

How do we override watch?