My Watch is set to mirror my phone in terms of Mail and Message notifications, but the Watch is not getting them. My texts and e-mails arrive on the Watch, but I do not get the notifications I expect. Any thoughts? Thanks!
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Watch Sport 42mm, iOS 8.3
Here is what worked for me.
Hi,
I never had this problem until I moved over to an iPhone 7 and I could not figure out how to get it back. Prior to this, the processed worked exactly like Apple described it. Notifications on your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Since upgrading, my main concern was with apps like Whatsapp and instamessage messages going completely silent on the phone and watch even though everything else would notify me. I tried many apparent 'fixes' and settings change but in the end, after two months of disappointment, I found "my" fix today.... 'force restart' the Apple Watch...!!!
You do this by pressing and holding both the side button and digital crown for at least 10 seconds until the apple logo appears. Restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Since doing this, my problem is gone and the notification sound process works as I remembered. Hopefully it last long term and I won't have to force restart every time just to fix this.
(p.s. for a few minutes after the force restart, I was getting sound notifications on both the phone and watch at the same time even though the phone was locked and the watch was unlocked and on my wrist. It did not repeat after a while though)
I'm having a similar problem I only recieve vibration when I am being called. I don't revive activity updates or prompts to stand although I have them selected. I have sound disabled on the watch but it is not in silent mode. At the moment the watch is not smart at all. I do constantly have my phone in silent though but vibrations and notifications are still on.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
Anyone not getting notifications should try to switch off wrist detection in the general settings tab on the apple watch app on the iPhone. I have not been getting notifications of any sort until I switched that feature off, I am now getting all my notifications. I tried everything all sorts of resets and this is what fixed it for me. If this fix does work for you then I believe that your infra red sensor which detects your wrist is not working properly.
I tried all the suggestions here and finally got my notifications to come back on but with no haptic alert. Most frustrating!
Then I switched on the sound for the notifications that I want to receive on my apple watch and the haptic feedback came back.
I kept the sound alert off because my phone is always on mute anyway. But apparently my apple watch needs the notifications to be on sound alert before it would vibrate.
Hope this helps others who were just as frustrated as I was.
And the winner is...turned off Cover to Mute, didn't work. Rebooted phone, issue still not resolved. Found this forum. Turned off Wrist Detection and rebooted phone, and I'm getting audible text notifications again. YAY! Leaving Cover to Mute off because I recognize how easily that could contribute to this. Thanks for the posts on this issue, they definitely helped.
seems like a universal issue, I'm having the same problem, except I get no email notification
Try changing from Mirror my iPhone to Custom on the iPhone watch app.
When the phone is locked you will get the notification on your watch. if you have the phone open you wont get notified on the watch. pretty smart actually.
This did the trick for me.
Probably obvious, but might help some people out there. If do not disturb is on (little blue half moon on watch) notifications will not come through.
That worked for me and allowed me to get email notifications; HOWEVER wrist detection is required to use your credit card, so it fixes one thing and breaks another....
I do not know if this will help anyone out there, but, I went through the whole I couldn't get notifications on the watch no matter what I did... After 3 watches and no help from the geniuses at the Apple store I made it a quest. It seems that because of the tattoos on my arm it messes with the way the watch detects my wrist, pulse etc. So if I turn off wrist detection everything works fine (more or less). Heart rate monitor is pretty much useless and I can not use the watch for Apple Pay nor does it lock when I take it off, but I can live with all that. It is still in the gadget fascination phase.
I Am having the same problem.
It is happening to me when my iPhone is in standby mode as well from time to time. Not always though. Not sure how to fix it.
Thanks, this helped.
OMG thank you so much. I feel like an idiot. I had do not disturb on. Had no idea.
Apple Watch not getting notifications
