
I have turned of wrist notification, but there are feature sacrifices. They have me a shaky explanation of why you want it to work the way Apple has designed the text notification scheme. If you turn "wrist detection" off, the text notification plays on both devices. In those threads, there were some work around suggestions. Why the design of the text is different is a mystery to me.Įven a bigger mystery is why Apple has not addressed this issue since there are threads about this issue since 2015. It is hard to hear when volume is set high and prominent is ON. When you turn silence OFF, then there is a "ding" on the watch but no sound on the phone. So now, by default, there is no text notification. Further, the default appears to be silent mode ON when pairing the watch. It turns out that when paired to an apple watch, the phone does not make a sound notification for incoming texts when the phone is locked.

I was not getting any sound notifications on my phone 12 when the phone is locked.
