Delayed notifications on Watch

Has anyone found a way to fix this, because after the first day, my watch is always delayed for messages. My phone is always vibrating and making my message sounds, and then about 10 seconds my watch gets the notification. This is kind of annoying, because now I have two devices making noise instead of just one, and this isn't suppose to be happening according to the online user guide.

i had the same problem so i contacted support and the said to unpair the pair again with iphone. now it does do a backup to ur phone so when you pair agin press restore from backup and everything is exactly the same it just takes about 5 mins to sync. i did this and my notifications delay was fixed! now i gete them at the same time and when my phone is locked it goes to the watch! this might not work if ur watch is locked with a passcode you will need to take this off. hope i help!

I fixed the issue in a slightly different way.

On my phone, under notifications, I turned off all notifications for my messages (settings\notifications\messages).

I then locked my phone and got some one to text me. It went straight to my watch. I then went back to my phone and reversed the notification settings that I changed above.

That seems to have fixed it for me.

I had this problem too. Toggling the Show On Lock Screen option under Settings-->Notifications-->Messages fixed it for me. Hoping Apple comes up with a real solution to this annoying problem.

This is discussed here:

I'm receiving notifications on both watch and iPhone even when iPhone is locked

OK un pairing and re pairing did the trick for me. Just turning notifications off and on didn't help.

I had the same yesterday for some reason. On messages, the phone would notify me, but on email the watch would. This was despite the phone not being touched and no settings changed in the last week. I've turned everything off/on, but no difference.

I will see if it "rights" itself today before I look to play with the settings.

For the last couple of days I am having the exact same problem. Used to work perfectly but still does for every type of notificatio except messages. No matter what the message first sounds on my phone then following a 10-20 sec delay I get it on my watch.

if anyone has discovered a fix for this it would be greatly appreciated!

I had the exact same problem. Delay seemed to be about 30-45 seconds after the text was received on my iPhone and iMac. Notifications were working correctly at first (and for several weeks), but within the last week problem set in and persisted indefinitely.

Unpair > Re-Pair > Restore from Backup fixed the issue. Notifications are now consistently tapping me on the wrist as soon as they come in like I'm used to. Thanks for the tip Ethan!

I Had the same issue and after 3 trips to the genius bar i tried troubleshooting the issue myself. At first I thought that an app was causing the delay then I finally figured out it had to do with the number of contacts I had on my phone. Between my different accounts I had 600 + contacts and it would take 5 to 6 rings before it would show on my watch. I reduced the number to 400 hundred and then it would show up after 2 to 3 rings. Finally one I got below 300 contacts I experienced little to no delay.

It also sped up how quick I received message notifications.

I hope that helps!

I have been having this issue, too. What I tried just now—and so far it seems to have worked, we'll see if it does—is to put the iPhone into Airplane Mode. Depending on the Watch settings, it should go into that mode too. Now turn off airplane mode on iPhone, then on Watch (once it's in Airplane mode, you have to turn it off from the Watch). My text notifications started coming to the Watch again.

I've only had this issue once, interestingly getting the text message to sign into this forum for my 2-step verification.