iPhone and Apple Watch BOTH Ring During Incoming Call

Thanks for trying this.

I have one further request then: to make sure you are not "mirroring" your Apple Watch's settings on your iPhone. Reference this paragraph from the Apple Watch Manual. You should be set up to not mirror settings:

SMG1369 wrote:

I certainly agree it's not a good thing when at work! There should be an option (I hope) in a future update to have the call passed to your watch without the iPhone ringing. Thanks.

Submit your feedback to Apple requesting such a feature here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I just tried it again (I had done so earlier this morning), and it did the same thing. My phone is on Vibrate and when my wife called me, my Watch did its thing (rang and Haptic'ed) and the iPhone vibrated (both expecting me to answer). So I would say that mine is doing the same thing that yours is now.

This isn't altogether surprising to me (I don't all the ways it is supposed to work), but when I am working on my laptop (MacBook Pro) and have my iPad sitting near me, and have my iPhone with me (this is before I got my Watch), all three of them would react to incoming calls. (I should probably know how to make them limit the reactions, but I don't.)

I have not received my Apple Watch yet, but I think this should work:

Place your iPhone into "Do Not Disturb" mode. Since your Apple Watch is not in "Do Not Disturb", won't this achieve what you're trying to do?

I just tried this sberman: set the iPhone in "Do Not Disturb" and then called myself with the home phone. Both the iPhone and the watch (as well as the MacBook Pro that I was reading your post on) rang (or vibrated - as the iPhone was on vib). So apparently the watch overrides the DnD setting on the iPhone!

Did you get this resolved? I am now experiencing the same problem after the duo worked correctly initially. Surely the watch should be the main point of contact when it is on your wrist and the phone is asleep? The manual and website both confirm that only the watch should ring when the phone is asleep. However, Apple support today thought otherwise - but seemed unsure!

SheelaghK wrote:

The manual and website both confirm that only the watch should ring when the phone is asleep.

I can't find any reference in the manual that says that only the watch will ring if the phone is asleep. My experience is that they both ring regardless of the state of the phone. Phone calls are treated differently than other notifications.

I sort of dropped the ball for this thread, mostly because I got tired of fooling around with it, but also because I've stopped wearing the watch and will probably sell it to some buying store (like PowerMax). I just hate having to wear it strapped so tightly to my wrist (especially in these warm days of summer).

SheelaghK wrote:

Apple have now confirmed that the phone should not ring when the watch is on your arm. They advised me to unpair and pair again - which I did - and guess what, it didn't work!

Mine always rings on both. And on my computer if it's awake. I suspect the person who "confirmed" it was mistaken.

As Meg said that is incorrect. All support articles as well as user guide state both will ring. That is by design and the way most of us would want. But it's very simple if you don't want the phone to ring, just place it on vibrate. Since all other alerts or notifications will only sound off on the watch ( or are supposed to anyway) doing this won't cause you any issues.

HI Guys I hope this helps . So I have black tattoos on my wrist and it wasn't working so I turned off detect wrist on my settings on the iPhone and it started working with no problems . I see that you are having issues with the watch ringing and phone ! turn off wifi on your phone then on the left side of your iPhone put it on silent , then go to setting on your iPhone > sounds >make sure vibrate on ring and vibrate on silent are off. . Let me know if this works for you : instagra: *********

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That is the way it is supposed to work - phone calls (as opposed to messages and notifications) are supposed to go to both your iPhone and Watch, even if the iPhone is locked. This was confirmed by an Apple tech support person when I called early on about notifications not coming throuh from certain apps and I though I had some wrong settings.