Since upgrading my iPhone X to iOS 12 and my watch series 2 to WatchOS 5 I am not getting email notifications on my watch. It appears VIP email notifications work. I've tried everything I can think of.
Apple Watch Series 2, watchOS 5, iPhone X - iOS 12
Oh, in case the original post I referenced was missed, for those who are having this issue (apparently after upgrading to WatchOS 5), go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics > New Mail > Vibration (at top of screen - I had to scroll up) > change from “None (Default)” to your preferred option. This worked for me and my watch started vibrating again with mail notifications.
I called Apple support and they told me first, there is no issue with notification between phone and watch.
Same now with phone LTE and WiFi issues which comes up in press.
My messsage was only a side comment to this thread.
I had this same issue and found a fix for it.
In Settings>Notifications>Mail look for the options for Favorite mailbox. If this option exists than you have a mailbox set as a favorite. This option seems to default to off. When all other mail notifications are set to on and this is set to off, you will get a sound, and vibration, but no banner, no notification in Notification Center, and no notification on an Apple Watch. As soon as I turned this on, all notifications started working. I then deleted my inbox as a favorite, and this option went away completely and notifications continued to work.
To delete the favorite, open the app Mail and touch Mailboxes in the top left corner and then Edit in the top right. In the first section you will see a list of folders (Inbox, VIP, Flagged, etc.) that will have blue checks, this indicates what folders you will see in your mail app. At the bottom of the first section, click the Add Mailbox... option. You will see a list, if any of them are chosen, indicated by a grey check mark, they are selected as favorites and will only notify if you turn on Favorite notifications as mentioned above. Or you can simply uncheck them and standard notifications will apply.
Hopefully this helps some of you
Agree. I had 12 before updating watch.The watch update killed the notification.
Haven’t updated myself yet. Planning on later tonight. But I did read other posts of people saying that this latest update seems to have resolved the problem.
Fixed for me in 5.1.2.
Mail notification WatchOS 5
