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If the notification is routed to the watch, will the iPhone also vibrate?

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yalag

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I just thought of this today. If I get a tap on my wrist of a new message, does my iPhone sound/vibrate also? This would be SUPER annoying. I keep my phone in my pocket. I don't want multiple places on my body tapping and ringing, it would drive me nuts.
 
yalag said:
I just thought of this today. If I get a tap on my wrist of a new message, does my iPhone sound/vibrate also? This would be SUPER annoying. I keep my phone in my pocket. I don't want multiple places on my body tapping and ringing, it would drive me nuts.
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It should only route to the phone if you are not wearing the watch.
 
I can't wait until people test it out. I would want my watch to notify if I have it on. We should be able to do both or either one.
 
On my pebble, it does vibrate on both. I don't mind it actually. The pebble has a couple second delay of the notification too, so its almost like I get a heads up that I'm about to get a text to check.

Also since the pebble does not have a speaker so its nice to get an audible notification when the phone is not on vibrate.

It does seem like it would be annoying, but I've had my pebble for over 2 years and it hasn't bugged me.

I'm sure there will be a setting though.
 
Armen said:
It should only route to the phone if you are not wearing the watch.
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I remember reading this as well, so if you phone is in your pocket, it will buzz your watch. And if you're presently using your phone, the watch won't buzz. I think this was from one of the tech reviews.
 
Agree. I do not want my phone to make any sounds if the watch is ON.

I LOVE that you get a red dot on the display telling you there are missed notifications in case you did miss one.
 
John Gruber said on Twitter if your phone is off it will route notifications to your watch; if the phone is on notifications will go to your phone.
 
Rogifan said:
John Gruber said on Twitter if your phone is off it will route notifications to your watch; if the phone is on notifications will go to your phone.
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Not very practical.

Say I walked away from my phone, its display goes off after 5 minutes, and several very important notifications come through during those 5 minutes. That means I'll miss them since Watch will never alert me.
 
Armen said:
Give me a few minutes.

Edit: sorry still looking. I read this somewhere and cant quite pin it now.
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I think this might be it:

If your iOS app supports notifications, Apple Watch displays those notifications at appropriate times. When one of your app’s local or remote notifications arrives on the user’s iPhone, iOS decides whether to display that notification on the iPhone or on the Apple Watch.
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Source: Notification Essentials

And it looks like from this screenshot of the Watch app on the iPhone (from 9to5) that the way it decides is if you're "actively using your iPhone."

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So, it seems like:

-iPhone unlocked, Watch in any state: Notifications go to iPhone
-iPhone locked, Watch on wrist and unlocked: Notifications go to Watch
 
PBF said:
Not very practical.

Say I walked away from my phone, its display goes off after 5 minutes, and several very important notifications come through during those 5 minutes. That means I'll miss them since Watch will never alert me.
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What's the alternative? Having them go to both the watch and phone? I suppose it could be tied to ones auto-lock setting where if the setting is more than 2 minutes or whatever the notificafions still come to the watch. But how many people have their auto-lock setting to 5 minutes or more?
 
rorschach said:
I think this might be it:



Source: Notification Essentials

And it looks like from this screenshot of the Watch app on the iPhone (from 9to5) that the way it decides is if you're "actively using your iPhone."

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So, it seems like:

-iPhone unlocked, Watch in any state: Notifications go to iPhone
-iPhone locked, Watch on wrist and unlocked: Notifications go to Watch
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So what happens when my iPhone and Apple Watch are both locked?
 
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