Hi. Text & Email Notifications not showing on watch?

Hmmm... could be. As I said, just thinkin outside the box. BTW, Battery Conservation would be handled by software - set a timeout length at some elapsed time from off the charger > do this, that and the other when TimeOutLapsed > else > nothing or do something else ( ? ) all kinds of uses for timers in coding for hardware.

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I Had the problem of not getting iMessages on apple watch. Fixed this by unpairing Apple watch from iPhone, then go into settings on iPhone and reset your network settings. Phone will restart and then pair watch back to phone and this should fix your problem with not getting IMessages on Apple watch. Could work for other problems as well.

I was having lots of trouble getting email notifications ( text notifications worked fine). I spent an hour on chat with Apple support and then several more hours trouble shooting. I am now able to get consistent notifications from my yahoo email account (still can't get them from gmail). This is what I figured out.

Goal: receive email notifications only from people on my Mail (on Iphone) VIP list

Email Services: Yahoo mail (primary) and Gmail

Phone: Iphone 6+

Issue #1: Push vs fetch -- Initially both email accounts on my iphone were set to Fetch (under settings, mail, fetch new data). Push didn't even show as an option. When i looked on my ipad, I saw that both were set to fetch. I deleted my yahoo email from the phone and added it back (using a custom app password as i have two-factor authentication enabled). Now push emails showed up as an option. Unfortunately a delete and re-add of Gmail did not provide push as an option, as Gmail no longer supports it on free email accounts (my Ipad is grandfathered as an old device"). The Gmail app on the iphone does have push support, but no Apple Watch support yet. With email set to push, the emails show up on the device immediately, with fetch they only show up at a selected time interval (the most frequent option is 15 minutes). Bottom line: you want push, not fetch.

Issue #2: iPhone status -- The only way I have found to reliably get notifications is for the phone to be on either the the lock screen or sleeping. I think this ties into Issue #1 with fetch email accounts, as the phone needs to be active for it to fetch emails and that may be why its not sending notifications.

Configuration that ended up working: On the phone I have Mail notifications set to only VIP, no sound, Badge on, Show on lock screen on and Banners.

On the watch (via the Apple Watch App), I have Mail notifications set to custom, show alerts, only VIPs selected, Sound and Haptic selected.

As I said, with this setup I now consistently get email notifications from VIPs from the yahoo mail account, as long as the phone is locked/asleep. I still get no email notifications from the gmail account.

Hope this is helpful.

In my case, i fixed the problem by going (on the iPhone Watch app) to My Watch/Notifications/Mail. I then changed from Mirror my iPhone to Custom and made sure Show Alerts was selected. Now I receive email notifications on my watch. The phone did need to be off to receive a notification on the watch.

i just did a few test myself, and realize that, even though i use @me.com as my main email, the apple watch will only notify me if an email was sent to my appleid primary email which is a @gmail... unfortunately apple won't let you use the iCloud emails as primary... i don't know if this is a real solution, but seems to be the case..

The reason this is also is because i only use the iCloud email account, but have emails forwarded from my @gmail account to my @me.com account

Count me in. No notifications for incoming texts or emails. I've checked the notifications settings in the Watch app, restarted the watch, and unpaired/re-paired the watch. Still nothing. I'm getting other notifications from Activity monitor and third-part apps, just not texts or VIP emails. Looks like probably a software patch is needed. I'll keep watching this thread.

David

David,

In page 2 of this thread, ExWoW gave advice to turn on two-factor-verification for your Apple ID and then create an App specific password for Messages and FaceTime.

This actually worked for me as well, so if you haven't tried this out it is a possible option. The major problem with this solution is the two-factor-verification is a pain in the butt, because whenever you want to login or otherwise use your Apple ID you must also input a 4-digit code sent to one of your devices. However, until Apple comes out with an update to fix this, I might just have to put up with an extra log-in step in order to be able to use my Watch the way it is meat to.

Maybe I should try to turn off the two-factor-verification not that the notifications are working. Maybe the change in functionality will stay after two-factor is gone.

-Brandon

Cmodman-- interesting. Yahoo is the email address i use for my apple ID. Has anyone got notifications to work for multiple email addresses?

Yes. I have Microsoft Exvhange and Gmail working fine. Just choose custom setting in the My Watch App instead of Mirror my Phone. Then make sure the boxes are checked so they go Green.

I found my email notifications depend on whether the client you are using has 'push' capability to your phone. iCloud does and those notifications work fine. Gmail (for me not on Exchange) is Fetch only, so my workaround was to forward all my Gmail msgs to my iCloud account and then I start receiving all the email notifications.

I do think that if the phone is awake and open you will get the notification on the phone but NOT on the watch (in fact I just verified this and the watch did not tap me when the phone alerted me to the email.

Turns out the Gmail App for Iphone (which is push) does have a Apple Watch extension and will mirror the notifications in the app (right now just limited to all emails or just important emails). Download the app, set up the notifications in-app and then open the Apple Watch app and turn them on. Still can't restrict to just VIPs but I guess I can play with the "important" algo to try to train it. Probably Ok since this is my secondary email anyway.

Consistently gives me watch notifications.

Thanks Robbo67a - I knew that about the Gmail app, but I just want a single point of entry for email. Good point though. Cheers.

The Gmail notification on the Watch is suboptimal, as you can't respond to a message, just view it and delete it. I assume at some point that will be fixed.

When I get to Password and Security, I don't see any "app specific" password option. Just two step, choose a new pass, security questions, rescue and birth date. In other news, this forum is terrible that replies don't show up in0line with the original comment.

Ok, found the app specific password, set one for "Messages" and followed your steps, but on step 10, I don't get any wrong password error, but messages works on the phone, and I can still send texts from desktop to phone. Still nothing on watch. I know this is v1.0 software, but for a $434.00 watch, I'm getting very discouraged. The watch at its best is a glorified notifications machine, and if those notifications don't work, then... 😕