Apple Watch Haptics for Messages

Haptic works for phone calls but not messages on my Apple Watch Series 2. Tried turning off my watch and turning it back on but that didn’t help. I have all the settings correctly set because I get a haptic tap for emails and heartbeats but not messages. Phone calls tap me as well as the person calling showing up on home screen but I get nothing with a text. The texts do appear on the watch but only if I go into messages will I see them.

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Mar 21, 2018 7:57 AM

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Posted on Mar 21, 2018 8:21 AM

I found the fix to this: I should have tried before I asked the question. The credit to the fix goes to igeeksblog.com On your iPhone, go to My Watch, general, wrist detection and then toggle that to off. Turn your watch off. After a few seconds turn it back on. Follow the same steps to turn wrist detection back on and it should work now.

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Mar 21, 2018 8:21 AM in response to dsawyer7101

I found the fix to this: I should have tried before I asked the question. The credit to the fix goes to igeeksblog.com On your iPhone, go to My Watch, general, wrist detection and then toggle that to off. Turn your watch off. After a few seconds turn it back on. Follow the same steps to turn wrist detection back on and it should work now.

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