Galaxy Watch 5 owners please.

FlyingFish · 6 Mar 2023 at 17:55

I just need a sanity check before I do all the factory reset malarkey.

I've moved from a Galaxy Watch 3 to the 5 Pro. Obviously from Tizen to Wear OS.

It's all setup just how I want it, but I seem to have a notification 'problem' that I can't fix and wondered if it's a normal 'feature'.

On my old Watch 3, every time I got a notification (from any app) I could turn my wrist to look at my watch, it would light up and show me the notification without any other input. Then I could decide if it was worth my time to go any further etc.

On the Watch 5 Pro, all it does is show me the clock face with the orange dot when I look at the watch, I then have to swipe to see the notification, which obviously involves my other hand. I think I've tried all the settings, but none get the watch to show me the notification just from looking at the watch with the turn of the wrist.

Surely this can't be right?
I want to be able to glance at the watch, and it show me the current notification It's just chirped about.

Cheers

FlyingFish · 6 Mar 2023 at 22:22

Right, I think I've got to the bottom of this.
It would seem that whether or not the watch does this is entirely dependant on what sound mode the watch is set to.

So, on silent the watch will not open a notification page when an alert is received, it will only show the notification indicator dot on the clock screen (if enabled). Even if the phone is on noisy. Turning your wrist to look at the watch face will not show the apps notification, only the watch face (clock).

If the watch is set to vibrate or noisy, then it will show the app notification as intended when you move your wrist to look at the phone.

Daft :rolleyes:

Participant · 7 Mar 2023 at 05:16

That is pretty stupid.

I'm still on a TWP 3 and really like it. I'm keeping an eye out for the upcoming TWP 5.

Kanpai · 7 Mar 2023 at 09:25

Seems quite logical to me, if my watch is on silent I won't know when a notification is received either way unless I'm actively using my watch, so when I check the watch later and see a dot I know that notifications arrived, this is the same logic that works with the phone when in silent mode and not in use.

Or am I missing something here?

FlyingFish · 7 Mar 2023 at 09:43

For me I don't need two sets of chimes and or vibrations going off every time I get a notification. It just sounds silly

Just having the phone do the chime is enough. But as the phone lives in my pocket, all I want to do is look at my watch with the flick of the wrist and see what's happening, no other intervention. Why silent mode has to change what the screen shows is beyond me.

I've got do not disturb setup for the quiet times, which the watch syncs to the phone for.

I'll leave the watch on vibrate and that will have to do for now.