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Can't dismiss text notifications

Former Member
Former Member over 8 years ago
Is anyone else having an issue like this? A recent update broke the text notifications on my vivoactive HR. I get two notifications per text message... One i can dismiss and one i can not. It seems like the problem is only with text messages. The only way to get rid of the one notification is to restart the watch. Everything seemed to work fine before the update. I'm running Android 5.1.

I do have a third party text app (Textra), but all other text apps are disabled and should not be sending notifications. Besides this, everything worked fine before the update.... So I'm thinking it might be a software issue.

I already reset the watch and reinstalled the Connect app, but that didn't work. Any other ideas or is this a known bug? I don't feel like resetting my phone unless absolutely need.

Thanks in advance!
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 8 years ago
    Is anyone else having an issue like this? A recent update broke the text notifications on my vivoactive HR. I get two notifications per text message... One i can dismiss and one i can not. It seems like the problem is only with text messages. The only way to get rid of the one notification is to restart the watch. Everything seemed to work fine before the update. I'm running Android 5.1.

    I do have a third party text app (Textra), but all other text apps are disabled and should not be sending notifications. Besides this, everything worked fine before the update.... So I'm thinking it might be a software issue.

    I already reset the watch and reinstalled the Connect app, but that didn't work. Any other ideas or is this a known bug? I don't feel like resetting my phone unless absolutely need.

    Thanks in advance!


    Try going into your phones settings and turn off SMS permissions for the Garmin Connect App, SMS notifications will still get displayed on your watch.