No text notifications on Apple Watch

Hi

How notifications behave depends on the status of your devices. In order to bring notifications to your attention as soon as possible:

- If your iPhone is unlocked, you will receive notifications on your iPhone instead of on your watch.

- If your iPhone is locked or asleep and your watch is unlocked and on your wrist, you will receive notifications on your watch.

- If your watch is locked or has Do Not Disturb enabled, notifications will go to your iPhone.

More information:

About notifications on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

You may find that if you turn off Wrist Detection (on your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > General > Wrist Detection) it will cause all notification alerts to be delivered to both devices. However, you will not then be able to benefit from features including Apple Pay and a single unlock after placing the watch on your wrist.

Also check your settings:

On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch (bottom left tab) > Sound & Haptics:

- Check the Alert Volume;

- Check that Silent Mode is not enabled;

- Check that Haptic Strength is set to the middle or far right hand side of the slider.

On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > Messages:

- Perhaps choose Custom and check - under Alerts - that Show Alerts, Sound and Haptic are each enabled.

Also check your settings:

On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch (bottom left tab) > Sound & Haptics:

- Check the Alert Volume;

- Check that Silent Mode is not enabled;

- Check that Haptic Strength is set to the middle or far right hand side of the slider.

On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > Messages:

- Perhaps choose Custom and check - under Alerts - that Show Alerts, Sound and Haptic are each enabled.