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Fix for no Email notifications on WatchOS 5?

This is getting ridiculous that Apple can't get mail notifications right on the Apple Watch. That is a big function for them to not get right.

Tim Cook needs to spend more time on core function and less time on adding emojis.
 
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CyberVisitor said:
I have the same problem as you with 5.1, BUT, to get notifications at all, I must turn off mirror. All other of your mentiod settings must be followed though. Isn’t it weird? (I have two mail accounts though and maybe that’s why things are different for me). I truly had my fingers crossed that this would be fixed in this release. Truly sad.
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No, I also have two mail accounts - a personal FastMail account and a work Office 365 Exchange account. I get exactly the same issue with each of them individually if I remove the other.
 
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I am having inconsistent text message notifications. Sometimes they come thru to my watch, sometimes they do not. For both email and texts I am getting a ding but no prominent haptic. I already restored my phone from backup, have watch to mirror iPhone. Frustrating.
 
Fixed the issue here by changing the notification settings on my iPhone.
After I've changed the specific sound settings (vibration on => synchronized) on my iPhone, the notifications on the AW seem to work again.
 
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iOnAsJ said:
Fixed the issue here by changing the notification settings on my iPhone.
After I've changed the specific sound settings (vibration on => synchronized) on my iPhone, the notifications on the AW seem to work again.
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Where is that? ( vibration on => synchronized) on my iPhone
 
Just when everything was working fine, I disabled my work email (Exchange) while I went on holiday. Now that I've enabled it, it's broken watch notifications again. Everything is set up as before on the iPhone (sound/vibration/lock screen) but setting the watch notifications to "mirror my iphone" no longer works. Home email is OK, work email has no notifications on the watch. Setting it to Custom fixes the work email but then everything else breaks.

How can Apple screw things up so much?
[doublepost=1542014592][/doublepost]So completely removing my work email account and adding it back again has fixed it (for now). Shouldn't be necessary, though...
 
Mathiusreal said:
Nope. Still same problem.
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Do you have Lock Screen selected under ALERTS? This, plus sound and vibration works, provided that I have "Mirror my iPhone" selected in the watch app. On the notifications screen in the watch app for Mail, it says:

Mirror my iPhone (checked)

Custom

o Show alerts
o Alerts from FastMail, Office 365 email & VIPs
 
pinkoos said:
Hi,

Has anybody figured out a fix to the problem that started in one of the betas and then got resolved for some (but not all) regarding not getting email notifications on the Apple Watch?

Since the final release came out yesterday and I haven't heard of any upcoming dot release to address this problem, I'm trying to find out if others here have figured out a fix.

Thanks.
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Hi,

The following solution worked (at least for me) tested on several Apple Watches (series 4, watchOS 5.1.1 and 5.0.1)

(iPhone)
1. Unpair Your Apple Watch
2. Settings - Mail - Notifications - Allow Notifications - Sounds - Vibration: Choose one from the standard vibrations (I am using Accent)
3. Settings - Mail - Notifications - Allow Notifications: (Toggle ON), Banner style: Temporary, Alerts: All 3 styles ON.
4. Pair Your Apple Watch (You can restore from backup)
5. My Watch (iPhone App) - Mail: Mirror my iPhone

(On Apple Watch)
Settings - Sounds and Haptics: Haptic Alerts toggle ON and chose Prominent

Reboot Your iPhone and iWatch.

Please let me know if this solution works for You.

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mzanker said:
Do you have Lock Screen selected under ALERTS? This, plus sound and vibration works, provided that I have "Mirror my iPhone" selected in the watch app. On the notifications screen in the watch app for Mail, it says:

Mirror my iPhone (checked)

Custom

o Show alerts
o Alerts from FastMail, Office 365 email & VIPs
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For me it only works with Mirror off. I have two mail accounts and it then seems different than with one account. You could try it, but don’t forget to check the settings manually on the Apple Watch.
 
BodrogZs said:
Hi,

The following solution worked (at least for me) tested on several Apple Watches (series 4, watchOS 5.1.1 and 5.0.1)

(iPhone)
1. Unpair Your Apple Watch
2. Settings - Mail - Notifications - Allow Notifications - Sounds - Vibration: Choose one from the standard vibrations (I am using Accent)
3. Settings - Mail - Notifications - Allow Notifications: (Toggle ON), Banner style: Temporary, Alerts: All 3 styles ON.
4. Pair Your Apple Watch (You can restore from backup)
5. My Watch (iPhone App) - Mail: Mirror my iPhone

(On Apple Watch)
Settings - Sounds and Haptics: Haptic Alerts toggle ON and chose Prominent

Reboot Your iPhone and iWatch.

Please let me know if this solution works for You.

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Worked for me. Thx!
 
iOnAsJ said:
Worked for me. Thx!
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I am glad to hear that it is working for You too.

I think there something wrong with the paring process... (the settings are not syncing correctly)

Now I can only disable notifications and haptics for Mail and iMessages only if I unpair my Watch, disable notifications on iPhone and pair the Watch again...
 
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BodrogZs said:
I am glad to hear that it is working for You too.

I think there something wrong with the paring process... (the settings are not syncing correctly)

Now I can only disable notifications and haptics for Mail and iMessages only if I unpair my Watch, disable notifications on iPhone and pair the Watch again...
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Strange bug indeed. Hope they fix it soon, because mail notifications are quite important for everyone.
 
Mail notifications stopped suddenly on my S4 on watchOS 5.1.1 too. It's really annoying that Apple's taking so long so fix such a core issue. :mad:
 
This is happening to me too. But my situation is worse in that I want Sound=NO, Haptics=yes for mail, but want sound and haptics for all other notifications.

However I cant get notifications nor haptics on my new apple watch if I choose Mail CUSTOM (vs mirror iphone) to allow this configuration.

I used the workaround of putting my AW 4th gen (on 5.1.1, phone is on 12.1) in silent mode, in addition to the work around posted here to get the notifications/haptics working to begin with. But this makes the watch completely silent (but all haptics work) and not what I want.

I had a gen0 watch on watchOS 4.3.2 (since 5 isn't available on gen0) with email notifications working fine this morning with "custom" just the way I like them (no sound for email, yes for haptics and yes for sound/haptics for all other notifications) and during my setup of the gen4 watch today, this all came up (and I found this thread).

So in recap

iPhone 6s running iOS 12.1
4th Gen Apple Watch running watchOS 5.1.1

has issue.

Same iPhone 6s running iOS 12.1 with my old gen0 apple watch running watchOS 4.3.2, and the email notifications with sound (if I wanted) and haptics just fine. Swap over to the gen4 watch (out of the box it was on 5.0.1, had the issue, upgraded to 5.1.1, issue persisted) and here we are :(
 
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I have been getting a ding, no haptics, when I use mirror. If I change to custom I get mild, not prominent haptic. I have 3 email accounts on phone. I want both the ding and the prominent haptic. Frustrating.
 
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So weird how some of us need to use "mirror iphone" and yet some of us must do the exact opposite and choose "Custom." and of course I need custom but that is the mode thats not working.....
 
BodrogZs said:
Hi,

The following solution worked (at least for me) tested on several Apple Watches (series 4, watchOS 5.1.1 and 5.0.1)

(iPhone)
1. Unpair Your Apple Watch
2. Settings - Mail - Notifications - Allow Notifications - Sounds - Vibration: Choose one from the standard vibrations (I am using Accent)
3. Settings - Mail - Notifications - Allow Notifications: (Toggle ON), Banner style: Temporary, Alerts: All 3 styles ON.
4. Pair Your Apple Watch (You can restore from backup)
5. My Watch (iPhone App) - Mail: Mirror my iPhone

(On Apple Watch)
Settings - Sounds and Haptics: Haptic Alerts toggle ON and chose Prominent

Reboot Your iPhone and iWatch.

Please let me know if this solution works for You.

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Thanks a lot!!!
100% working now.
 
This issue just cropped up for me again!

Almost 2 months ago, I was experiencing the issue with no haptics for Mail.app on my AW. I ended up wiping and setting up both my iPhone and Watch and new, which solved the issue and then out of nowhere, I'm not getting haptic notifications on my watch again for ONLY Mail.app...

I didn't change any settings on the watch or iPhone for the issue to come again either. So frustrating! :mad:

UPDATE: Unlinking and re-linking the Watch fixed haptics for Mail.app.
 
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I updated today to WatchOS 5.1.2 and my email finally started to notify me on my Apple Watch 4 like it should. This is the first time it’s worked right since I got the Apple Watch 4.
 
kytiger said:
I updated today to WatchOS 5.1.2 and my email finally started to notify me on my Apple Watch 4 like it should. This is the first time it’s worked right since I got the Apple Watch 4.
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Came here to say the same. Finally! I'm much more excited about this than EKG.
 
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kytiger said:
I updated today to WatchOS 5.1.2 and my email finally started to notify me on my Apple Watch 4 like it should. This is the first time it’s worked right since I got the Apple Watch 4.
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Fixed here, too! Gone back to my watch OS 4 settings and it's all working like it should :)

On my iPhone I've gone back to no lock screen notifications and no vibration for mail alerts.
On my watch (series 3) I'm using custom notifications for my two mail accounts with sound and haptic enabled.

It's finally behaving like it should.
 
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