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Cannot stop notifications sending to watch

4172134
over 1 year ago

I have a Forerunner 255.

I recently got a new phone, a Samsung Flip 5

Ever since I installed the app, I now get random push notifications to my watch - ie whatever notification my phone get (banking, Ring doorbell, SMS etc etc etc) gets pushed to my watch,

 I have the watch set to Notifications Off.

The frustrating thing is that sometimes notifications only go to the phone, but then suddenly I'll get a whole bunch to my watch as well.

Please advise

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  • 0 over 1 year ago
    4172134 said:
    I have the watch set to Notifications Off.

    Which ones did you disable exactly? There are "Phone" notifications (notifying you about connections / disconnections), and there are Smart Notifications for the notifications of diverse apps on the phone. I suspect you only disabled the "Phone" notifications.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    Hi, 

    Thanks for the reply.

    I don't know of any setting that says 'Smart Notifications'

    I have both notifications settings on the watch set to off. These can be found at:

    Notifications and Alerts > System Alerts > Connection Alerts

    Phone > Notifications

    As stated in the original post, both of these are set to Off.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4172134

    As I wrote - those are just the Phone Connection alerts (both paths are in fact the same option). You have to disable the Smart Notifications. I can only give you the path on my own watch, which may differ from yours. If not the same, check the user manual for your model.

    On the watch as well as on the app, I have two different access paths:

    • device menu » Phone » Smart Notifications
    • device menu » Notifications & Alerts » Smart Notifications
  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    There's no smart notifications menu on the 255. It just says, Phone > Notifications

    Is this the setting you're referring to?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4172134

    No, it is not. As I wrote - have a look into the user manual for your model, and search it for the term "Smart Notifications"

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    OK. Found it. It's not called Smart Notifications, it's under:

    Phone > Notifications >During Activity....

    Not the most obvious place but it looks like this might the setting I'm looking for,

    Thanks for your help :)

  • +1 over 1 year ago in reply to 4172134

    That one is just for the (smart) notifications during logged activities. There should be also another item "General Use" (at least so it is on my watch), for enabling/disabling the notifications when not recording any activity.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    Got it! Many thanks again :)

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4172134

    Yes, underneath 'During Activity' there's another setting, 'General Use'