7mo ago

I have an iPhone 13 and an Apple Watch series 9. For the last few weeks my phone has not been lighting up and making a sound when I get notifications.

A Senior Advisor at Apple Support told me a few minutes ago that if I am wearing the watch the notifications go there and not the phone, and that’s how it was designed and there’s nothing I can do. I’ve had the watch for a good few months now, and I could totally be crazy, but I do NOT remember this fuckery being the case back then. Am I nuts?

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They should still appear on your iPhone even when wearing the Apple Watch, but I don't think the iPhone will vibrate/play a sound. It will however when you're not wearing your watch.
- Yeah, they’re there usually, but the phone does not light up or do anything, so there is no way to know
  
  The way you're supposed to know is that your watch plays a sound/vibrates.
  
  I guess I like knowing things the way I want to, and not the way Apple says I am supposed to know them.
  
  Valid point, I'm just telling you how it works. To my knowledge, there's no setting to make your phone play a sound/vibrate while wearing your watch. Maybe if you turn off notifications entirely on the Watch for each app, but I haven't tried.

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