iOS Health App - Old High Heart Rate notification cannot be cleared

I don't understand your point. Yes, my Watch App > Notifications > Heart > Heart Health > High Heart Rate has been set to notify for 100 BPM for weeks now, and I get the notifications at the top of the Health App summary page whenever such an event is detected. The problem I'm having is clearing the notifications once they have been seen. As I said above, tapping the “X” in the top RH corner of the notification does remove the notification temporarily, but the same notification with the same Date & Time tag reappears repeatedly each morning thereafter.

I discovered that the repeated notification can be eliminated by going into Health App > High Heart Rate notifications > Show All Data and swiping left on the data entry line labeled with the reappearing Date & Time and deleting that data line (this happened to be the top/most recent data line). However, the next day I get the same High Heart Rate notification reappearing but for the next Date & Time data line on the list of recorded events.

I talked to Apple Support about this. They concluded this may be a bug in the Health App and have submitted a report to engineering to investigate.

Hi LD150

I did:

• Check watch battery health: max capacity is ≥ 80% 

• iOS is 26.2. WatchOS is 26.2

• Force restart the Watch, then while Watch is restarting, force Restart the paired iPhone  

• Unpair and erased Apple Watch & reconnected Apple Watch

Tested over the next two days and the problematic behavior of the most recent High Heart Rate notification (Dec 2025) presenting at the top of the Health App each morning persists. 

I did not unpair the Watch again and setup without restoring the backup (as new watch) as I think we’re barking up the wrong tree here and that this represents a bona fide bug in the iOS Health App. I have reported it to Apple support.

Thanks again or you help.

Hi LD150

Yes - the notifications are for greater than 100 BPM recorded whilst inactive for 10 minutes. My doctors know about this and it is expected while I undergo treatment for a viral infection of the Pericardium.

I’ve never seen the notifications on the Watch, only at the top of the Summary page of the iPhone Health App as shown in my screenshot. Are you suggesting that normal behavior is for the Health App to repeatedly show the same notification for the same Date & Time event even though I tap the “X” in the top RH corner of the notification to remove the notification? That doesn’t sound correct to me. FYI: up until Dec. 22 when I did get such notifications on the iPhone tapping the “X” would always remove the notification permanently, however all such notifications are logged and can be viewed by going into the iPhone Health App > High Heart Rate notifications > Show All Data.

Hi LD150 

Yes, iPhone > Watch app > My Watch tab > Notifications > Mirror iPhone Alerts from... Health is ON.

I started working through your Apple Watch basic diagnostics. May take a few days - I’ll let you know if it works.