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My apple watch seems to turn on muting of the sounds every so often in its own. I notice this because I sometimes get haptic touches with no sound and I go into settings on the watch or watch app on the iPhone and notice that sound has been muted. Anyone else seeing this or have any idea how to fix it?
Apple Watch, Watch iOS version 1
This probably won't help! I hear that the watch can be muted by holding your hand over it for 3 seconds. Blocking the light to the watch face in some other way probably does the same thing. When I heard about this it was in the context of muting a call but maybe if the watch face is covered at some other time it is going to silent. I confess I have tried to make my watch go on silent by covering it - while no alerts were sounding - and it didn't go to mute. So that may or may not be related.
This probably won't help! I hear that the watch can be muted by holding your hand over it for 3 seconds. Blocking the light to the watch face in some other way probably does the same thing. When I heard about this it was in the context of muting a call but maybe if the watch face is covered at some other time it is going to silent. I confess I have tried to make my watch go on silent by covering it - while no alerts were sounding - and it didn't go to mute. So that may or may not be related.
i think i figured out whats going on - if you hold you hand over the watch face to decline a phone call - it seems that also turns on the mute function for everything - a little confusing because thats not how its advertised as working
Thanks for reporting back. I didn't think to test that!
Mine does the very same thing. And it' s not because I've put my hand over the face, either.
Randomly turns mute on. I've become extremely frustrated - mostly because the Apple Watch has the same sound for every notification I receive, minus telephone calls. I am constantly missing texts as they get buried under notifications and it's too much to search through when you have a lot of notifications. I belong to 2 GroupMe groups that are constantly pinging my phone and I end up not seeing my texts - so double this aggravation when Mute is turned on unexpectedly.
Signed,
Unhappy $800 Apple Watch Owner
Same here. Very frustrating.
I think, you can turn off the "Cover to Mute", which can be found in "Sounds & Haptics".
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I have had the same thing and finally realized I accidentally cover the face with my hand or arm once and a while l and it turns the mute on. I didn't think that is what it was until I saw it happen.
I Had the same problem. The manual leads you to believe that covering the screen only mutes the current call when it actually turns mute on globally
Perfect! Thanks! 🙂
Wow! I've been wondering about this since I got it. Now, the question: do I like the feature enough to leave it on and just immediately swipe up to turn global mute off or do I just turn off the cover to mute feature altogether? I rarely complain or even think about "asking" for improvements but I guess this is one. I'd like to see a secondary option for "mute for this sound only."
jrsmith817 wrote:
.. I rarely complain or even think about "asking" for improvements but I guess this is one. I'd like to see a secondary option for "mute for this sound only."
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Mute turning on by itself
