How fast are notifications?

well...sometimes not at all...lol v1.0

 

It's really quick, almost instantaneous.
if handoff is enabled you won't get notifications while your phone is on.

Chibatastic

 

It depends...bad answer but here's the thing.

With continuity and hand off it is hard to gauge everything. I just got email on this MacBook and on my watch at the same time. However, some things you won't get immediately on the watch. It depends on what you are doing on your other devices.

So, if I'm texting back and forth with someone on my phone my watch isn't going to tell me they wrote back. I'm already looking at the phone. Similar to getting a phone call on your phone if you don't pick it up right away it will start ringing on iPad, Mac etc.

The order of things is actually very smart. If I'm not using any devices it feels pretty simultaneous.

 

I got 3 texts on my phone witch is plugged in by my bed and the display is off. It's been 5 min and nothing on my watch. However I got a Facebook alert almost instantaneously. So there you go.. I am reserving judgment until version 1.1.

 

This pretty much sums it up

 

Text message notifications are SLLOOOWWWW!! As in 10-15 second delay. I'm a huge Apple fan but this is absolutely unacceptable. Even my Pepple was nearly completely simultaneous. If you like hearing a text but not see who it is for 10 seconds, no big deal. But I hate that. And since I charged it, no text notifications at all. Oh well. Like they say... The price of 1.0. lol

 

Notifications are broken as hell. 0/10 to Apple for notifications. Their quality control sucks dick.

 

Software issue, not hardware. Expect this to improve over time.

 

My notifications aren't slow, paired with the iPhone 6+ on iOS 8.4. Could it be related to wifi speeds or anything? I have 100Mb/s.

 

The problem exists in the same exact fashion even when wifi is turned off. Also made no difference whether handoff was on or off. I realize that this is probably something that can be updated for improvement. At least I sure HOPE so... My pebble totally sucked when it came to staying connected and getting notifications when I first got the watch. Month or two later it was fine and got better and better with each update really. I'm expecting the same for my apple watch so apple better get on it ASAP!!

BTW... I've been timing the delay and it's averaged 12 seconds for me. 20 text attempts for an accurate average.

Another BTW.... mine is the 38mm sport. Anyone having this issue with the 42mm? I've read several for the 38 but have not noticed if anyone has it with 42.

 

I think it's software related. I have fitbit surge and the notification on that is instant. I noticed the delay on the watch was about 10-15 seconds slower vs the surge. I also noticed I was missing call notifications on the apple watch.

I read somewhere that if wifi calling was enabled it would not receive the notification on the watch. Strong limitation of the apple watch. The fitbit surge did not have this limitation so I would think this is a software limitation.

 

Did you mean iOS 8.3? Or did I miss an update...