Email Notifications on Apple Watch not working since IOS upgrade

I have been having an issue with no mail notifications on my Apple Watch 3 with iPhone X with Gmail on Exchange. Someone on here very kindly suggested I look at the watch app/notifications/mail and set it to mirror my iphone, and then on the iphone settings go to Notifications/mail and ensure you allow notifications from VIP and Favourite Mailboxes.

That fixed it for me.

Failing that, if you are a Gmail user just use the Gmail app - that works fine with notifications on Apple Watch.

If you have multiple emails or calendars set up on your phone (i.e. a Gmail account and an iCloud account) this can be fixed with a pretty easy work around.

What you have to do is allow notifications on ALL email accounts and calendars on your phone or you won’t be able to get notifications for your main email/calendar account. You might get alerts on the watch face but you won’t be able to get the red dot Notification Center notifications unless every email account or calendar is set up to receive notifications/alerts.

I’ve found that enabling just the banners notification on the other email accounts and calendars is enough to get Notification Center to work again. You can also set the sounds and vibration to “none” on the other accounts you don’t use to limit their “noise”.

Hope this helps you.

Ok it’s December 2018 now and a lot of these answers etc date back to September. I noticed that email notifications stopped working on my new Watch 4 even though everything is set up correctly on the iPhone Apple Watch app for email notifications. Working with both 2nd level support and the engineers we established that mail notifications including a haptic alerts works fine when mail is configured to “mirror” the mail notifications set in the iPhone mail app. However if you select mail custom settings, (for example you may have 2 email accounts and only want alerts notifications for 1 account on your watch) then the watch fails to pick up notification alerts for both accounts. So right now you can only pick up email notification alerts if you mirror that of your iPhone. Apple have taken this away this evening and hopefully they will fix it soon.

I had this issue as well, for 2 weeks i couldnt notice any email - notification... it almost made me return my Watch ( because i need emails for my work a lot!!)

This highly annoying problem did not solve by re-pairing or restarting both devices, but,....it did solve my issue by restoring my iPhone (X) ...

SInce then, i get all my emails on my watch.. sometimes i do notice a bit of a delay (easily tested by sending emails to myself, but its much much better now.. it works! Hook up onto iTunes, make a backup, restore your phone and watch them e-mails dropping in 🙂

Do you have multiple emails set up on your phone (even if it’s your personal email and iCloud)? If so this can be fixed with a work around.

What you have to do is allow notifications on all email accounts or you won’t be able to get notifications for your main email account. You might get alerts on the watch face but you won’t be able to get the red dot Notification Center notifications unless every email account is set up to receive notifications/alerts.

I’ve found that enabling just the banners notification on the other email accounts is enough to get Notification Center to work again on the Series 4.

Hope this helps you.

If you have multiple emails or calendars set up on your phone (i.e. a Gmail account and an iCloud account) this can be fixed with a pretty easy work around.

What you have to do is allow notifications on ALL email accounts and calendars on your phone or you won’t be able to get notifications for your main email/calendar account. You might get alerts on the watch face but you won’t be able to get the red dot Notification Center notifications unless every email account or calendar is set up to receive notifications/alerts.

I’ve found that enabling just the banners notification on the other email accounts and calendars is enough to get Notification Center to work again. You can also set the sounds and vibration to “none” on the other accounts you don’t use to limit their “noise”.

Hope this helps you.

If you have multiple emails or calendars set up on your phone (i.e. a Gmail account and an iCloud account) this can be fixed with a pretty easy work around.

What you have to do is allow notifications on ALL email accounts and calendars on your phone or you won’t be able to get notifications for your main email/calendar account. You might get alerts on the watch face but you won’t be able to get the red dot Notification Center notifications unless every email account or calendar is set up to receive notifications/alerts.

I’ve found that enabling just the banners notification on the other email accounts and calendars is enough to get Notification Center to work again. You can also set the sounds and vibration to “none” on the other accounts you don’t use to limit their “noise”.

Hope this helps you.

I manager to solve haptic feedback on my Apple Watch 5.1.1. I had to delete my email account on the iphone (latest OS) (under password and account). Added the account details again and everything works perfect, 100%!

I hope it works for you too!

Re-pairing, rebooting both devices or reconfiguring notification settings didn't help me (iPhone 7, iWatch 3 with latest os).

But deleting my Exchange account in iPhone (settings -> passwords and accounts) and recreating it with reconfiguration of notifications (only on phone) did fixed that bug to me.

I spent a long time on the phone with Apple support on this. I have an iPhone X and Watch Series 4 both are up to date on the OS.

Bottom line was they acknowledged this was a bug and details had been sent to the Engineers. I was told to expect a fix in the next Watch OS update.

FWIW, I tried resetting the watch and setting it up as a new watch, creating custom notifications for Mail (instead of mirroring the phone) and a whole bunch of other stuff that didn't work before I called them. The Tier 1 tech I spoke to just sent me a whole bunch of support links, none of which were relevant, and did not seem to understand that you should see new mail alerts no matter what you are doing on the watch or phone (tried convincing me that they would only show up when the watch is active and not locked, if you use Apple Pay on the watch a passcode is required by default). Eventually I got hold of someone in Tier 2, who seemed to know what she was doing and quickly acknowledged that this is not expected behavior. She said that details from my call had been forwarded to the Engineers with a request to identify and confirm this as a bug.

Hope this helps someone.

I’ve moved from the mail app to outlook app which has sorted the problem. It allows all types of emails... exchange, 365 etc. So glad I don’t have to waste any more time on this issue that Apple should have sorted out a long time ago.

In your mail notifications, make sure you have your “Favorite Mailboxes” at the bottom setup accordingly.

Restoring my iPhone ( hooked it up on iTunes, made a backup , restored it with the restore-button on iTunes) solved this issue for me

I turned off the walkie talkie app and it fixed the problem

Do you have multiple emails set up on your phone (even if it’s your personal email and iCloud)? If so this can be fixed with a work around.

What you have to do is allow notifications on all email accounts or you won’t be able to get notifications for your main email account. You might get alerts on the watch face but you won’t be able to get the red dot Notification Center notifications unless every email account is set up to receive notifications/alerts.

I’ve found that enabling just the banners notification on the other email accounts is enough to get Notification Center to work again on the Series 4.

Hope this helps you.