Message notifications not working consistently

Oh good. At least I'm not missing anything over my Pebble while waiting for my Apple Watch.

 

mine is fine. no issues

 

I've found out that mail notifications at least won't come over if your phone is on. Fooled me for a while.

 

its DAY 1 for a FIRST GEN product. Expect a software update soon.

 

This.

Same with messages. I'm so busy in the Watch app setting stuff up, that when it bings on my phone, the watch does nothing. I thought something was wrong.

 

I think notifications go to the device your using first just like they do when your on a iPad or mac. people who don't have many apple devices might not be used to this

 

Do you have messages open on the iPhone iPad or Mac ?

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I think if your staring at your messages app on the Mac , the watch won't tap you

But I don't have a watch to test this

But that's how it works if the iPhone messages app is open

 

if I'm using messages on my mac and get a new one it doesn't ding my phone unless I ignore it. Same on most apple devices and vice versa I would think. if you ignore it, it starts dinging everything.

 

So I actually think this might be a feature, when I would be texting or doing something wearing my pebble and getting messages my wrist with just constantly vibrate. If the screen is on with the iPhone I don't get a buzz on the watch which actually I prefer

 

correct it just dings what you are currently using. if you ignore it and don't read it, it will then ding other devices after a bit.

 

That's perfect. If I'm on computer or phone I don't need my watch to tell me the same thing I'm looking at. If they've got that worked into the whole continuity that's great. I wondered why I wasn't getting everything at first and figured out I was in the same app on laptop.

I gave up on Pebble early on because it was like drinking from a firehose.

 

That just worked for me. I was responding to a message in iMessage and another message came in from someone else. I didn't go to it immediately and it then went to my watch.

My problem is that there is at least one mac, iPhone, iPad around and with continuity I get a lot of pings all over....phone calls can get annoying when they all start ringing.

 

I think its setup to start the convo with a notification and not keep notify you of an on going message convo. that would drain the battery faster

 

lol yup i have 2 iPads the watch a mac and the phone. if i ignore a message they all start pinging

 

Same here.

 

Same Here

Come on Apple Really??

 

Same. Notifications on the watch are so broken it's easier for me to use my phone.

 

And here!

 

If you're on your phone why do you need the watch to go off and let you know you got a mail or a message. You can see that because you're on your phone!

I think some of you want it going off for the sake of it to justify your purchases.

 

I thought mine was doing the same as well. To make sure I turned the watch off then back on. Not noticing any issues now.

Another thing to note---The vibration is light to me esp wearing a milanese band even when set on Max. So now I have on the hepatic heavy vibration and sound. Everything seems to be coming through when phone is off..


FYI I made the same mistake about the emails not coming through when phone is on. That led me to the turning off/on. I prefer apple do it this way. With samsung got too many beeps or vibrates even while on my phone to the watch

 

Anyone figure this out? Just got mine and message notifications don't seem to ever work and email notifications are spastic at best. This is the primary reason I bought the watch and it doesn't work?