Apps send notifications to keep you informed—meeting invitations, messages, and Activity reminders are just a few examples. Your Apple Watch displays notifications as they arrive, but if you don’t read one right away, it’s saved so you can check it later.
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By default, the notification settings for the apps on your Apple Watch mirror the settings on your iPhone. But you can customize how some apps display notifications.
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, then tap Notifications.
Tap the app (for example, Messages), tap Custom, then choose an option. Options may include:
Allow Notifications: The app displays notifications in Notification Center.
Notifications Off: The app sends no notifications.
Send to Notification Center: Notifications are sent directly to Notification Center without your Apple Watch making a sound or displaying the notification.
Apps that support direct delivery to Notification Center include Activity, Breathe, Calendar, Mail, Messages, Podcasts, Reminders, and Wallet.
For each app on your Apple Watch that supports notifications, you can choose how notifications are grouped.
Tap an app, tap Custom, then tap Notification Grouping. Options include:
Off: Notifications aren’t grouped.
Automatically: Your Apple Watch uses information from the app to create separate groups. For example, News notifications are grouped by the channels you follow—CNN, Washington Post, and People.
By app: All the app’s notifications are grouped.
Tip: When you get a notification, you can quickly mute your Apple Watch by resting the palm of your hand on the watch display for at least three seconds. You’ll feel a tap to confirm that mute is on. Make sure you turn on Cover to Mute in the Apple Watch app on your iPhone—tap My Watch, then go to Sounds & Haptics.
When you raise your wrist to see a notification, you see a quick summary, then full details a few seconds later. For example, when a message arrives, you see who it’s from first, then the message appears. To stop the full notification from appearing unless you tap it, follow these steps:
Turn on Notification Privacy.