How to stop News notifications?

Do you have any other news apps on your phone? I have several, both local and national, so had to disable notifications for all of the ones I didn't want to mirror to the watch, otherwise I was getting a dozen notifications every time another celebrity died

 

I know you can go into the News App and shut off notifications from various sources, under Favorites, but I realize that doesn't really answer the question, since it will cease the nofiications from that source on both the watch and the phone.

However, if there are any you find unecessary for both, you can stem the barrage of alerts from the app.

 

This might be a problem with News.

I welcomed notifications from National Geographic for a while, then decided to switch them off, but continued to receive them.

I switched off NatGeo notifications within News, switched off News notifications within Settings, and even added NatGeo to my Disliked list within News. The notifications kept coming.

I did an erase and install on my phone and that fixed it.

 

Try settings,notifications,then scroll to the app you want to stop,and turn off notifications.

 

Well,that's one of the things smart watches for. Guess the easiest for you is to trade in the watch and buy a fitness measure band instead. The Apple Watch is designed to let you read notifications with the phone in your pocket,if you don't want that,the watch is just a very overpriced fitness band,you should have looked up this before just running off to buy one.

 

Just go to notifications on your Apple Watch and turn off which apps you don't want notifications on your watch

 

I am sure you know you can silence the bings, by placing the watch in silent mode and only getting the haptics, but of course that is universal. If you want it to bing for other reasons, that would be silenced as well.

But since you seem to have issues other than the news notification bings (stand count), have you tried resetting the AW and setting it up as new rather than restoring from a backup?

I had an odd issue last month that was resolved by doing that and it has been good since.

 

Bummer. I wonder if deleting News and re-installing it would help in it behaving properly?

 

Uh, no. One of the Watch's best features is its ability to exercise granular control over notifications, including receiving only a subset of what the phone receives. OP's issue is that this is not working on one particular app.