WeeRed

Q: Hi. Text & Email Notifications not showing on watch?

I seem to have the correct notifications switch on via the apple watch app on my phone, but they don't come up as an alert on the watch.

 

Any advice?

Apple Watch, iOS 8.3

Posted on Apr 24, 2015 7:59 AM

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Q: Hi. Text & Email Notifications not showing on watch?

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  • by sibleymj,

    sibleymj sibleymj Dec 26, 2015 8:03 PM in response to WeeRed
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    Dec 26, 2015 8:03 PM in response to WeeRed

    TThis happened to me too. I had mail notifications on my phone's lock screen set to off and on my watch the notifications were set to "mirror iPhone". I changed the watch to "custom" and made sure everything there was switched to "on" and that fixed it!


  • by ademhadem,

    ademhadem ademhadem Jan 11, 2016 1:29 PM in response to WeeRed
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    Jan 11, 2016 1:29 PM in response to WeeRed

    Here is the simple fix. Switch off Show on Lock Screen under Mail-Notifications on iPhone. That will do it. you can only have notifications showing on one device - it is either the iPhone or the watch.

  • by Nocanas,

    Nocanas Nocanas Jan 18, 2016 12:38 PM in response to WeeRed
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    Jan 18, 2016 12:38 PM in response to WeeRed

    I was having this issue as well. Possibly due to the watch not being snug enough. There is a setting in general called wrist detection, if you turn this off the notifications will start coming in.

  • by ooMARYoo,

    ooMARYoo ooMARYoo Mar 3, 2016 8:55 AM in response to Robbo67a
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    Mar 3, 2016 8:55 AM in response to Robbo67a

    The reason you may not be getting VIP notifications on your Apple Watch for your gmail accounts is because of the Fetch vs. Push options. Yahoo allows for Push, but it doesn't seem that the iPhone allows that option for gmail accounts, so the best you can do for gmail is Fetch.

     

    To improve this situation, you may want to change the Fetch settings from 'manually' which would mean it would only update when you manually go into the mail app on your iphone, to something more frequent like 'Every 15 minutes.' This would lead to email in your gmail accounts being fetched every 15 minutes without your intervention while your iphone is locked and subesequently you would receive email notifications (VIP or otherwise) on your Apple Watch at least within 15 minutes from the time the email came through.

     

    You can view and edit these settings on your iphone through:

     

    Settings>>Mail (then scroll way down)>>Fetch New Data (tap on this)>>slide to select Push option>>scroll down to Fetch, and update frequency from 'Manually' to 'Every 15 Minutes'.

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