Here is the procedure :
1/ I switch on the airplane mode on my watch.
2/ I receive a message on my phone (I do not touch my iPhone, it stays in its bag)
3/ I switch off the airplane mode on my watch.
I though I would receive a notification on my watch, but nothing. Is it the behavior expected by Apple ? What do you think ?
Apple Watch, iOS 8.3
Any news on this topic ?
In general, notifications will go to your iPhone OR your Apple Watch. In the case you describe - even thought you didn't touch your phone, it sounds like you got the notification on your phone. You must have heard it ring/buzz?
Yes, you are right, I had the notification and the associated ring/buzz on the iPhone. I understand that notifications will go to my iPhone or Watch. In fact, I thought that the phone would push unread notifications once a new connection with the watch is made. Am I alone to worry about this behavior ?
Maybe.
I'm not quite sure why you would have your watch in airplane mode while your phone in not in airplane mode? Maybe, for what you want, try putting the watch in Do Not Disturb mode or Silent mode and the notifications will be there when you are ready to look at them.
Regardless, the way it currently works is, at the time the notification first arrives the phone has to work out where you are most likely to see the notification. If it can't locate the watch because it's off or in airplane mode, it won't send it to the watch.
I suppose you could send feedback to Apple to suggest/request that your unread notifications could keep trying to find you until they are seen. Reverse example, you could request that if the watch has unread notifications and the watch is turned off or to airplane mode that all those notifications transfer back to the iPhone to be read there.
Thanks very much, I like this idea that my unread notifications could keep trying to find me until they are seen. I will send this suggestion to Apple.
Messages not shown when coming back from Airplane mode
