Notifications Post update 1.01

[its Dale]

Is that an issue or a feature?

With my Pebble, it just mirrors the notifications. I still get the sound/vibration on my phone, but I can look at it on my watch. I was hoping my Apple Watch would do the same thing. I don't really want it to replace my phone notifications... I just want a faster way to glance, and see if I should bother getting my phone out to acknowledge it.

its an issue. Per the Apple Site, the notifications will only go to the watch when the phone is locked (screen off). when the phone is unlocked (screen on) the notifications will go only to the phone.

 

[flur]

ctrl-alt-delete. lol

Holding down the home button and the power button until the apple logo shows.
For the watch, holding both the crown and button down until it does the same.

Thanks! This seems to have worked. *fingers crossed* I've only gotten one text since but no sounds from the phone on that one.

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Someone posted in another thread that un-pairing and re-pairing the watch will fix this. I did that, and it did fix it, but wow, what a hassle. It took forever, my watch crashed, I had to reboot as new and restore it from a backup, re-add my Apple Pay cards, etc.

UPDATE:
Re-pairing my watch to my phone did NOT fix this for me. I'd thought it did, because all my other devices in the house stopped dinging when I got a message, but it turns out my phone was still getting them first. I tried the airplane mode + restart fix from joyapplefan, and that seemed to fix my HR issue, but not messages.

The reset-both-devices fix from Scott-n-Houston seems to be working for me.

 

[matt550]

My notifications are fine. My battery percentage won't change though. At 100 all day. Reset Watch. Was at 82 %. Hasn't moved since

 

[papbot]

Thanks! This seems to have worked. *fingers crossed* I've only gotten one text since but no sounds from the phone on that one.

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UPDATE:
Re-pairing my watch to my phone did NOT fix this for me. I'd thought it did, because all my other devices in the house stopped dinging when I got a message, but it turns out my phone was still getting them first. I tried the airplane mode + restart fix from joyapplefan, and that seemed to fix my HR issue, but not messages.

The reset-both-devices fix from Scott-n-Houston seems to be working for me.

It seems like we're all just chasing our tails. Some things work for some of us and some don't. The un-pair/re-pair worked for the messages issue for me but as I said led to many other problems. I even did the hard reset move as well to try to fix some other things that arose afterwards. I'm pretty much back to normal ( fingers crossed ). The only thing left now is the erratic palm cover maneuver to get back to the time face screen. Sometimes it works quickly, other times it takes 5 seconds or more to work. I don't think that's fixable on our end and I'm not trying any more so-called "solutions".

 

[DDustiNN]

Don't worry, you'll be just fine with the watch functionality.

If your watch/phone pairing is working correctly, when you get a notification that you've set to go to your watch, the watch will tap/make a sound and the phone will stay dark and silent. When you get a notification that you have set NOT to go to your watch, your phone will light up/vibrate/make a sound and the watch will stay dark and silent. When you get a phone call, it's party time - everything taps/vibrates/makes noise, etc.

Right now *some* people are having an issue where messages go to the phone (and/or other devices) and then go to the watch on a lag. That's not how it's supposed to work. A restart might fix, or a re-pair might fix if a restart doesn't do it.

The latter is exactly what I want. I want my phone to chime/vibrate when I receive a text, keeping the screen off, and I want that same notification to display on my watch. This is exactly how I have it working on my Pebble, and what I was hoping my Apple Watch would do (if it ever ships...).

Is this not possible on purpose??

 

[cosmic68]

I tried that and it worked for some notifications, but not all, including iMessage.

I was able to fix it by hard resetting both my phone and watch. After the resets (not power on and off, but resets) the functionality is back to normal for iMessage and other notifications.

Well done-this worked for me too. I had the same issues as you. In fact-dare I say it, this update hasn't been brilliant for me.

 

[flur]

The latter is exactly what I want. I want my phone to chime/vibrate when I receive a text, keeping the screen off, and I want that same notification to display on my watch. This is exactly how I have it working on my Pebble, and what I was hoping my Apple Watch would do (if it ever ships...).

Is this not possible on purpose??

In the latter scenario the screen lights up. I don't think you can get the phone to make a noise but not light up in any of the available scenarios. So yeah, that's not possible on purpose. You could send feedback to Apple asking for that option though.

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Well done-this worked for me too. I had the same issues as you. In fact-dare I say it, this update hasn't been brilliant for me.

I've only been in the Apple ecosystem for a few years, but this was the worst update I've experienced. My watch worked better before the update. To be fair, though, I usually wait to see everyone else's problems, and this time I got excited and jumped in. I won't be doing that for the next update.

 

[stoomc]

My experience is if the watch is off your wrist, all notifications go back to the phone and not on the watch. I know this because I charge my watch over night and my phone has all the notifications ready for me to look at in the morning, while my watch has nothing. Then when I put my watch on and unlock it, all the notifications thereafter go to my watch.

Thanks for the reply. However I'm wondering what happens when wrist detection is off, what happens in this scenario?
Do notifications come through to phone and watch at the same time?

 

[andylel]

I've had this issue pre and post update. Two things that fix it consistently for me are 1) turn of message notifications on the phone then turn them back on again ... Or ... 2) restart only the phone. Either works and only one is necessary.

 

[BD1]

I've had this issue pre and post update. Two things that fix it consistently for me are 1) turn of message notifications on the phone then turn them back on again ... Or ... 2) restart only the phone. Either works and only one is necessary.

Restarting only the phone did not work for me. Where to turn off message notifications? In apple watch settings app or settings in general?

Edit: Figured it out. On iPhone Setting->Notifications->Messages->Turn off then on Allow Notifications

This worked for me. Thanks.

 

[AppleWatchGuy]

Unpairing fixes it for sure. And no it's not an issue new to 1.0.1. But you probably triggered it with the watch/phone reboot. Rebooting is the cause of this bug. I reported it to Apple support.

I wish there was a solution that works consistently without unpairing though.

 

[Scott-n-Houston]

Unpairing fixes it for sure. And no it's not an issue new to 1.0.1. But you probably triggered it with the watch/phone reboot. Rebooting is the cause of this bug. I reported it to Apple support.

I wish there was a solution that works consistently without unpairing though.

I don't think that's correct. I got the issue just after my update. Now, maybe the reboot from the update caused it, but why did it get fixed when I rebooted both my watch and phone?