Why is walkie talkie icon flashing intermittently on watch face

The flashing icon at the top gives you a reminder that your Walkie Talkie mode is on. That means you could be interrupted at anytime with somebody sending you a voice walkie-talkie. If you set it to do not disturb inside the walkie-talkie app that flashing will not occur and you will not be in Walkie Talkie mode where you can be reached. So the flashing I can just serves as a reminder that Walkie Talkie mode is active.

But according to apple, the icon should be solid whenever you set the Walkie Talkie as available to any of your contacts: Status icons and symbols on Apple Watch - Apple Support

Mine is also flashing when I raise the watch, but never gets solid. I am using a Series 2 sport watch, by the way.

You have a point here. I've tried several scenarios to make the Walkie Talkie app a "Active" app - including initiating a conversation - and it only flashes then disappears.

This could be a functional bug.

I do appreciate the indication that "available" setting is set causing the flashing icon. Not sure how they will address this conflict; it might be confusing to have a solid icon indicating that the Walkie Talkie app is active, but your "available" setting is turned off.

Heres a good list of icons and meanings etc.

Status icons and symbols on Apple Watch - Apple Support

Its normal, apparently a shortcut to get back to the app (which isn't working for me, but maybe I'm not tapping it right 😉). Don't worry about the battery drain, it is not flashing all the time -- only when the Watch face is activated and there's a lot more going on than this little icon.

I do would like to know!

However today mine was solid, not blinking. I didn’t think about hitting it to open the App, since I have a shortcut at the bottom of my watch. But I did notice that when it was lit up solid not blinking, the service was better for me using the walkie.

So I kind of feel like the yellow walkie symbol could be service related possibly...

The walkie does seem to be buggy and not always working properly.. but what can you expect it’s only been 3 days and bugs will be worked out!

Noticed today, mine only seem to be solid in one spot at work and I mean one spot!

But blinking does appear regularly..

Wife had issues with hers yesterday and restarting the watch alone did not help, we had to restart the phone as well.. all hard resets a simple power off didn’t help the situation. Once that was done her walkie was all good again!

We also use Series 1 Watches..

I understand now why it keeps flashing but it’s become rather annoying. I don’t want to constantly enable/disable the Walkie Talkie feature. Can Apple please add the ability to disable this feature in a future update?

Well I’m my situation it was flashing when I was waiting for a contact to confirm. Once confirmed it stopped flashing.

Word of of caution leaving it on drains the battery as it went down to 15% in less than 12 hours. Turning it off now gives me a day and half. To turn it off, open it and find a contact slide from top down and turn off the available. Not worth having it and causing big battery drain

I assume you have the "Notifications Indicator" turned off in your watch settings.

Try pulling down from the top of the watch to see your notifications and then force-pressing to clear all notifications. Once you do that, your yellow dot should stay on all of the time.

With the Notifications Indicator setting turned "on" and there are waiting notifications, the yellow dot shows for a second and then is replaced by the red dot as you'd expect. However, when the Indicator setting is "off" and there are notifications waiting, the yellow dot shows for a second and is replaced by a black dot instead. So, it seems that the "Notifications Indicator" setting doesn't REALLY turn off the notifications so much as make the red dot black.

I find this icon kind of annoying and buggy. It doesn't respond to taps, and aesthetically kind of weakens the vibe every time I look at my watch face.