Notifications on Watch are delayed and iPhone notifies prior to Watch

It’s two years later and this bug is still there. But now also for other notifications including alarms and timer. Extremely frustrating!

I have this issue too. Seem to have started after the recent update.

I havent tried unpairing, but i have rebooted both watch and phone with no sucess

Don't un-pair, that's a major step which will fix it temporarily. On your phone go into Settings ( phone )/Notifications/Messages and toggle it off and then back on that will restore the correct function. Messages is the one that messes up the most for me. Most or all of the other notifications work properly.

It can still act up but that toggling is easy enough to repeat.

II've had this issue since I first received my watch. It's very frustrating. I'll try the toggle recommendation.

Reboot both the phone and the watch.

I tried this. It doesn't work. What do you do exactly? It seems to be intermittent. Now it fixed itself.. but it is annoying. But it's only Messages/Text... everything else seems to work perfectly and in sync... I do hope Apple fixes this. I can't figure out what is causing the delay. I been play with it for hours to figure out. un-paring definitely works.. but hate to keep having to do that.

It has only been Messages for me as well and it is intermittent even when you get it corrected. I believe this really was the major bug in the new update. The heart rate issue I believe was a deliberate change.

But I go to my phone and in the phone Settings go to Notifications, on Messages toggle off Allow Notifications. Then go to another screen and give it 30 seconds or so. I believe when you do this something gets synced with the watch so that's why I wait just a little. Then go back to those settings, find Messages at the bottom and toggle it back on.

You you might also want to restart the phone prior to doing this. I've found a few times where restarting the phone actually triggered the issue, so do it first then go to the settings. It has fixed this for me every time. But usually in a day or two I'll see it again.

I've had this since getting hold of my Apple Watch on release date. I have narrowed it down to one thing specifically though (at least for me). If my Apple Watch is connected to my iPhone and I reboot the phone this causes messages to be shown both on the iPhone and then after a small delay on the Apple Watch.

As long as I remember to always turn off the Apple Watch first before rebooting the iPhone, all notifications work just fine.

Previously, the only way I could alleviate this was to then unpair/repair the Watch to the iPhone, however I'll try the notifications suggestion next time.

macjasp wrote:

As long as I remember to always turn off the Apple Watch first before rebooting the iPhone, all notifications work just fine.

Previously, the only way I could alleviate this was to then unpair/repair the Watch to the iPhone, however I'll try the notifications suggestion next time.

I restart my phone about every two days. I turn the watch off maybe every two weeks or so if that often. restarting my phone rarely if ever causes a problem, it usually fixes some issues such as the weather/temperature disappearing from the time face of the watch.

Un-pairing your watch wipes a lot of data every time you do it - Apple Pay, synced music playlist, motion calibration data - plus introduces the risk of it not re-pairing properly. Or if you read the many other threads about not being able to re-pair at all it's not a step to take unless you're having major issues. The notifications issue can almost always be resolved by toggling one or more settings on the phone. So far this has worked every time I've needed to do it. But I make certain to restart my phone every two days because a lot of these issues are circumvented by doing that.

that's normal. Don't worry, the phone just has to send the notification through the Bluetooth connection. That takes a while.

Computer2468 wrote:

that's normal. Don't worry, the phone just has to send the notification through the Bluetooth connection. That takes a while.

Sorry but it´s not normal. If the iphone is locked it should never vibrate or make any sound but the watch. It´s a f....ing bug.

It is a bug. When it works properly the phone never makes any sound or vibration. Only the watch. My other iOS devices, iPad , etc., will sound off if I do not acknowledge the message on my watch. If I do acknowledge it on the watch they will not sound off either.

I restart my phone every two days and am not running into this much anymore. When I do, toggling the Messages notification setting on the phone always resolves it.