Anyone else having problems with not getting their alarm on their apple watch? Since last update my watch is not giving me the alarm notification. I have made sure they are mirrored. That the vibration is turned on in the alarm clock. I have restarted but the phone and watch. 😟
I have spoken to a Sr. Tech about this and these were there recommendation and it worked for me:
Turn off "Mirror my Phone" on Mail, Messages and Phone. In each these select "Custom" with all "Alerts" turned on. In the Mail, select "Custom", Alerts - ON and iCloud turned ON.
With respect to "Alarms", go to "Notifications" and "Clock" and make sure you have "Push Alerts from iPhone".
Then check out this Apple site to see the 'methods' to insure you get notifications to your Watch. Even a Sr. Tech didn't know these things. Drove me crazy until I found this web site which explained it all.
Notifications on your Apple Watch - Apple Support
It will explain, most importantly, that you iPhone must be "On" but not 'open/active' in order to get notifications. If your iPhone is open, all notifications will go to your iPhone. This is because the assumption is you are using your iPhone and should get your notifications there. With the iPhone 'closed' but "ON", the notifications will go to your Watch.
In order to get messages and mail forwarded to your Watch, your iPhone must be "ON" even if it is not located anywhere near your Watch. Leave it at home...ok, but leave it on.
Another thing I learned through hours of trail and error was with using Siri to make Reminders. You can not delete items in Reminders. It will force you to go to your iPhone to delete an item. You can add an item from the Watch but not delete. All you can do on the Watch is mark the item as "completed" by selecting the 'dot' next to the item and then delete it from your iPhone. Also, Siri has a real problem recognizing "To Do List" on your Watch. Unless it is the "Default List" in Settings on your iPhone, Siri won't recognize it using it on your Watch. Siri on your iPhone does recognize it...go figure. Siri does recognize "Shopping List" and "Groceries List" on the Watch but not "To Do List" unless it is the 'default list' in settings on the iPhone.
Hope this helps you. It would have saved me hours with Apple Support and more hours working on my own.
I have spoken to a Sr. Tech about this and these were there recommendation and it worked for me:
Turn off "Mirror my Phone" on Mail, Messages and Phone. In each these select "Custom" with all "Alerts" turned on. In the Mail, select "Custom", Alerts - ON and iCloud turned ON.
With respect to "Alarms", go to "Notifications" and "Clock" and make sure you have "Push Alerts from iPhone".
Then check out this Apple site to see the 'methods' to insure you get notifications to your Watch. Even a Sr. Tech didn't know these things. Drove me crazy until I found this web site which explained it all.
Notifications on your Apple Watch - Apple Support
It will explain, most importantly, that you iPhone must be "On" but not 'open/active' in order to get notifications. If your iPhone is open, all notifications will go to your iPhone. This is because the assumption is you are using your iPhone and should get your notifications there. With the iPhone 'closed' but "ON", the notifications will go to your Watch.
In order to get messages and mail forwarded to your Watch, your iPhone must be "ON" even if it is not located anywhere near your Watch. Leave it at home...ok, but leave it on.
Another thing I learned through hours of trail and error was with using Siri to make Reminders. You can not delete items in Reminders. It will force you to go to your iPhone to delete an item. You can add an item from the Watch but not delete. All you can do on the Watch is mark the item as "completed" by selecting the 'dot' next to the item and then delete it from your iPhone. Also, Siri has a real problem recognizing "To Do List" on your Watch. Unless it is the "Default List" in Settings on your iPhone, Siri won't recognize it using it on your Watch. Siri on your iPhone does recognize it...go figure. Siri does recognize "Shopping List" and "Groceries List" on the Watch but not "To Do List" unless it is the 'default list' in settings on the iPhone.
Hope this helps you. It would have saved me hours with Apple Support and more hours working on my own.
Hi
Alarms are set separately on each of your iPhone and Apple Watch and are not synced between them.
Subject to your devices being connected at the time of the alarm, your Apple Watch can be configured to push alarm notifications from your iPhone. If you would like to enable this feature, then follow these steps:
On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch (tab) > Clock > enable Push Alerts from iPhone.
To set and use alarms on your Apple Watch, follow the instructions here:
To set and use alarms on your iPhone, follow the instructions here:
Set an alarm or bedtime schedule
Under watchOS 4, if alarms on your Apple Watch are no longer vibrating, then the following steps may help, having resolved the same issue for other users:
In respect of contact names, the following steps may help, having resolved the same issue for other users:
On your iPhone, in the Contacts app, check that there is a single contact card for each of your contacts and that each card contains that contact's full name and phone number, along with their email address.
If you have not yet done so, enable iCloud Contacts:
If you have contacts from multiple sources and multiple entries for the same person have not been linked automatically (such that they are shown as a unified contact, with "Unified Info"), then manually link those contacts by following the instructions here:
Having made any changes in the Contacts app, on your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > General > Reset > tap again on Reset Sync Data.
If the issue persists, it may then help to restart both your iPhone and your Apple Watch again, turning both off together, then restarting your iPhone first:
Fixed it!!!!! After erasing and re-syncing etc etc and that not working, I turned "Push alerts from iPhone" off, then hard rebooted my watch (pushed in crown dial and side button at the same time), then after the watch completely restarted, I turned "Push alerts from iPhone" back on! Worked! I got that from a 2015 thread when the same thing happened to someone after an update! Dumb.
I was not this way before. You could set the alarm on your iPhone and mirror it to your phone without additional steps on you watch. This function and displays of names in my contacts (receiving calls and text) have been disrupted with the newest upgrade. I feel like Apple has gone backwards! Not functional at all!
Alarms have never synced between Apple Watch and iPhone.
Subject to the devices being connected at the time of the alarm, it is also still possible to receive push notifications on your Apple Watch for alarms that you have set on your iPhone (ie without also needing to also set up the same alarm on your watch).
Yes but this is the feature that is no longer working after the recent update? This is the problem I am trying to solve. Even though the settings are set up to push the notifications it has not worked since last update. Along with showing contact names on incoming text and calls on watch.
I was having this same issue. I tried restarting both devices and toggling on and off the option for "push alerts from iPhone" to no avail. I just used the "erase apple watch content and settings" option and synced and set up my apple watch as new. All is working now.
In addition the the alarm notifications I also wasn't getting notified of timers that were set via the phone. But after the reset that is working again too.
For what its worth:
iPhone 7plus running iOS 11.0.2
OG Apple Watch running WatchOS 4.0
The procedure you describe does not work for me. I have a version 1 watch, which may make a difference. I am running the watch OS 4.0 and iOS 11.0.3 my iPhone 6+. I have "Push Alerts from iPhone" turned on for the Clock app, and my iPhone is On but locked. All alarms go to the iphone and not to the watch.
I can also verify that “Push Alerts from iPhone” has stopped showing Clock alarm alerts on the Watch for me since upgrading to iOS 11/watchOS 4.0. I have an original 42mm Sport Aluminum Watch and an iPhone 7. I used this feature daily prior to the updates and it worked perfectly.
Restarting both devices does not help. Nor does toggling the “Push Alerts from iPhone” setting.
I now have the same problem having upgraded to 11.0.3 and 4.0 - No alarms or timers coming through to watch at all. Went through all the settings of watch and iPhone with apple engineer on phone and they are all correct. Looks like there is a bug in the new operating system
Thanks Nerdnaid - unfortunately tried all that already. Have twice reset watch and erased all data and repaired with iPhone as a new watch. No help at all. But like Mike Lehr below this evening suddenly I have had a phone call and an alarm come up on the watch. Not sure yet if this means it has consistently fixed itself somehow or whether this just means it is working erratically. Something is definitely not as it should be though.
I 100% understand. My watch Series 2 was mirroring the alarms on my iPhone 6 Plus beautifully. I could snooze and stop from my watch. Suddenly after the watchOS 4 update, nothing. No vibration, no visual...nothing. I even tried erasing my watch and re-syncing and still nothing. Horribly disappointing. I don't want to set separate alarms on my watch, I want my iPhone alarms to be mirrored...pushed...whatever language makes people happy.
<Edited by Host>See push alerts from IPhone. It has and it worked great. You were able to snooze from your watch!
I know. As I hoped to explain in my previous reply, that feature remains available.
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