Hi. Text & Email Notifications not showing on watch?

yeah it doesn't always work for me Notification drops and comes back later. I think thats what the red dot on the clock does?

For the second time in a week I started receiving text messages on my phone not my watch, even when the phone and watch were both locked with screens off. I restarted the phone and hard-restarted the watch (holding the crown + side button until Apple logo appears) and that seemed to fix it.

This actually helped me with my texts but not with email though other people pointed out it's a gmail thing. Do Not Disturb wasn't turned on for me so that wasn't the issue.

I think I finally have the solution. I noticed that when I was at the bluetooth settings on iPhone my Apple Watch would say connected then after 10 seconds or so disconnected, repeat. This caused me to have notifications on the phone first and no/slow notifications on my Apple Watch.

1) Turn bluetooth off on iPhone.

2) Enable airplane mode on your watch.

3) Shut down your iPhone

4) Shut down your Watch (hold down the button then slide "Power off")

5) Turn iPhone back on.

6) Turn bluetooth back on your iPhone.

7) Start watch.

8) Disable Airplane mode on your watch.

Please let me know if it helps you. You should be able to receive all notifications including iMessage/Email right away.

Hey, folks.

Instead of completely wasting time rebooting, reinstalling, re-everythinging.. can folks do me a huge favor and just try this simple fix?

* Turn off Bluetooth on the iPhone, and leave it off!

All the instructions everyone keeps posting for this and related issues is to basically force the iPhone/Watch to re-establish a clean/fresh Bluetooth connection (at varying levels).

But my theory is that in fact the problem will just keep resurfacing, constantly.

So if you are able to stay on wifi while at work or home, why not just turn your iPhone's bluetooth off entirely -- and see if that in fact makes all your problems go away?

I bet it will. I tried it and it worked great for me. I'm on a mission to convince Apple to change their software to prefer the wifi connection when it's available instead of constantly driving everything over the bluetooth which obviously is very very flaky and unreliable and gets in a weird state (that then requires you to do all the steps above over and over again -- you can never really rely on it).

So, if in fact everything works way better on wifi, then maybe Apple can jimmy up a much better solution for us. But until we prove that, it won't be done.

Of course, you have to be sure to turn Bluetooth back on (on your iPhone) when you go out and about, since the whole thing will fail if there's no wifi connection to share. So I'm not trying to ruin everyone's lives here! But please, just try it, and I bet you'll be really happy. (Turn off Bluetooth while you're on a solid wifi network -- leave it off 'til you confirm that in fact that simple act solved all your problems. And then report back and let us know.)

Thanks.

Steve

Ive pretty much tried all these things unpairing blue tooth didn't do much for me the only thange that worked for me was uninstalling it and reinstalling it but now the top red dot went away again but it fixed most things like work out app and giving most of my notifications I'm not sure though how long it will last I think it just needs an update to fix allot of bugs maybe does anyone else get allot of these issues I really do like it though it does everything like calls when Im working and can't get to my phone I like looking at the watch more to. I just wish Notifications would work better with no issues hope its not just me

The red dot just means there is one or more pending notifications (and you just have to swipe down from the dot to see them). If you reboot, I presume it loses all the pending notifications so that's why the red dot goes away.

Why didn't you just try my idea of turning off Bluetooth (and leaving it off)? If you have a wifi connection, everything works perfectly (I mean, everything!).

Steve

Thanks Steve,

Im guess the watch all ready knows my wifi from my iPhone. I will try it tomorrow. when I leave for work just put it back on blue tooth then

thanks Will

You're SOOOOOO right john991my friend!

Your phone need to be locked for the notifications to come in on your watch

I was starting to freak out! 🙂

I am trying to do what you suggested. For some reason it's not giving me the option to put in a password. I have never used app specific passwords.

I've been looking for the same thing, a single point of entry. And I think I have found it:

On the iPhone, download the myMail app. This free app functions like iOS Mail, with an additional, substantial benefit: it will send push notifications to all of your email accounts. AND it has Apple Watch functionality.

I added my two main email accounts, neither of which offers Push (only Fetch). Now I receive instant notifications on the watch for every email account I added to myMail.app (in nice big letters!).

There is no need to actually use the myMail app as a substitute for the Mail app if you don't want to -- it will do its thing regardless.

forward your GMAIL Yahoo ME EMAIL address to your ICLOUD E Mail address and have your phone in sleep or rest mode and ever email connects to the watch. It does for me

I guess I'm a part of this whole club now. I waited 6 longs weeks for the watch to come and now it doesn't work properly. That's pretty aggravating. This is completely contrary to what I've come to know and love about Apple products.

Steve, I tried your process. I didn't have any success on my end. I tried the one in the prior message as well. Turning off bluetooth just doesn't seem to help me much at all. I have now tried the route of resetting my network settings. I'll see if that makes any improvement.

It kind of seems like a variety of things can get this bugged out. And, as a result there are a lot of fixes that sometimes work, sometimes do not work. I'd say Apple Watch's message notification system is fragile at best.

Reseting my network settings on my iPhone worked for me. My mail and messages now provide notifications

There is a noticeable delay between when my iPhone notifies me of a message and when the watch does. I'm not sure if this is intentional or I still have an issue going on here. Either way, I personally don't care for it. I'd like my watch to notify me at or even before the phone does.

yeah same here I was getting allot of notifications yesterday but not any today I can't even get a text I've tried every thing people have told me it gets frustrating Im not sure why Apple isn't tell us more about this problem it seems to be happing to allot of people they need to fix it soon. All my other apple stuff works fine but Ive never seen something like this I do like the watch allot for many other things but lots of software bugs.