

On and off settingsįor applications in the second group, there is no menu page to click on there is only a simple on / off switch. If it’s on (green), the app will mirror iPhone notifications to the watch. If it’s off, it won’t. The first one simply reflects the notifications on your iPhone: if you receive a notification on your iPhone, you also receive it on your Apple Watch. It is the default. Custom settings, on the other hand, allow you to set a different notification scheme than the clock. The activity has five separate switches for its reminders, challenges, and other types of alerts. Some other apps on this list offer the ability to choose between ‘Mirror and Custom’ settings. Sometimes this is a one-time setting – maps, for example, only allow you to have turn alerts as a notification, while heart rate only offers notifications when your rate is high.


In the first group are all the pre-installed apps created by Apple, with unique or complex notification settings of some kind. Tap on an app and you’ll see a menu page with additional options. Open the Watch application on your iPhone, make sure you are in the ‘My Watch’ tab (select this in the lower menu bar) and click on ‘Notifications’. Below the top two switches, you will see that the apps are divided into two groups. Change notification settings for each app
