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After last update my Apple Watch no longer shows text messages as read after reading them on iPhone 11

I am pretty sure before this last update to the Apple Watch, if I read my text messages on my phone it would not show unread messages on my Watch. I am now having to clear the "unread" texts on my Watch.


Anybody else having this?

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Posted on Jun 8, 2020 11:34 AM

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Posted on Jun 8, 2020 12:29 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup. This deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Jun 8, 2020 12:29 PM in response to sargenthp

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup. This deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


Jul 7, 2020 9:40 PM in response to ncruz84

I contacted Apple Support about this same thing about 6months ago and they said it's a known thing. It took me three different support guys (and three hours of my life I'll never get back) to finally get one who knew there was no fixing it. Apparently they took off the sync feature of text messages. They told me there was a way to request this changed back through some sort of customer request form, but I can't remember how to do that.

After last update my Apple Watch no longer shows text messages as read after reading them on iPhone 11

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