Help! No Messages Notifications on Apple Watch

I can't seem to get notifications on my watch for Messages. I have made sure all Messages notifications are on on the Watch app, but nothing is working. Messages show up on the app on my watch, but there isn't a notification or haptic to let me know. No focus is not on, my phone is not on silent, and the notifications are all on. What am I doing wrong?

Apple Watch Series 8

Posted on May 4, 2023 7:58 AM

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May 6, 2023 9:44 AM in response to tracyjake712

I am also experiencing this. This has been an intermittent issue for about a year for me. I miss message all the time because the phone doesn’t make a sound, because I’m assuming, it thinks the Watch is notifying me. I get no dot, no haptic, no sound.


But just as frustrating, it does this on the phone too if I’m not wearing my watch. It delivers silently. No sound (unless I physically have the phone unlocked doing something), no haptic: but I do get the badge on the app.


My settings are all correct on phone and the Watch. I have (another) call with Apple Support tomorrow to try and resolve, but it’s not the first time this has happened, and won’t be the first time they can’t resolve the issue if we don’t tomorrow.


All my other notifications work as they should: emails, WhatsApp, Sleep, Health, music etc etc. But Messages? Nope.


I’m beyond frustrated with it as it’s been going on for so long. I’ve even been through the painstaking task of setting both devices up from new, getting everything set up exactly how I always have it. Might work for a week or so, then it just stops again for new reason. Found out earlier that Messages alerts were turned off from my partner-I’ve *never* done that, because she’s the one that messages me the most: but it had been activated. Not by me!

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Mar 27, 2024 5:55 AM in response to Dan the 480 Man

I am having issues with the Health app and pretty much everything else not sending any notifications to the watch since this last update. Around the same time I changed my Apple ID email address and everything seems to be fine with that except maybe that is part of the problem with the Notifications? No clue. I have a couple of critical alerts for taking medication that I would really like to have working properly. They work on the phone, but if I’m not near my phone, I want my watch to remind me.

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May 17, 2023 2:03 PM in response to Dan the 480 Man

So, I’m response to this, and a very lengthy but helpful call with Apple Support, we still didn’t have a solution, other than, erasing both the Watch and the Phone and setting up as new. I really didn’t want to do this as I’d done it before and it took ages to get my phone back to how I liked it.


So, I signed out of *everything* that used iCloud, even on my iMac. I then signed back in to iCloud one device at a time. Then, I signed into Messges on my Mac, and when I did that, all my Message notifications on my Watch and phone stopped working. So, I signed out of Messages on Mac, and they started working again. I have a 2014 iMac, and it would seem that there may be a compatibility issue between my phone, Watch and iMac. Leaving it signed out has solved the issue-not a solution, but I rarely use my iMac anymore, so not a problem for me.


Might be worth you trying similar and seeing how you get on.

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