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Garmin Connect Android Notifications broken

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Starting with the October 8th 2025 5.18 Android release, notifications sent from phone to watch no longer vibrate the watch.

I wear a Garmin Forerunner 255 and use a Google Pixel 9A with the latest version of Android as well as the most up to date security release. 

 If I set a timer or alarm on the watch, it will vibrate at the conclusion of said timer/alarm, but all notifications received on the phone sent to the watch simply do not vibrate it.

It is not related to “do not disturb”, that setting is turned off.

I downgraded to the 5.17.2 and the watch started to vibrate on phone notifications again. Therefore, as far as I can tell it is a software bug with Garmin Connect version 5.18.

EDIT: This seems to be related to Androids own "Do Not Distrub", previously Garmin Connect would ignore Androids Do Not Disturb setting, but now it is following it.

I have tried to escalate this to the Garmin Android Dev team (reachable at [email protected] - I'd suggest people also try to reach out), but the person who responded to my emails was unable to understand the issue, even after pointing them to this forum post & others on social media. 

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    I see a lot of people saying it works correctly with 5.19.  However, taking note that not a small number of people wanted the new behavior.  While I do prefer the old behavior, the correct fix isn't choosing for us.  Instead, it would be allowing us to choose with a toggle to either follow the phone's DND or not.  Hoping that Garmin sees this as the correct way to address it at some point in the future.

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    I have the same problem and it is very inconvenient for me because i need to have phone in the mode "not disturb" all the time but i still want to have notifications on my watch. Notifications on the watch are more discret. 

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    I agree. If it is this easy to make the change, a toggle for the behavior should not be hard. They already have the option to choose which apps to notify on the watch, it should be trivial to have a "follow phone DND settings" toggle. 

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    After update to 5.19 DnD was et up on the watch directly. After disabling it I got previous behaviour. Check this...

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    I can confirm v5.19 now available on the google play store in Australia this morning 7th Nov fixed it ie, the behaviour is back to how it was in v5.17.2. I upgraded the app to v5.19 and now when my Samsung S25 is in DND mode, and my Fenix 7s Solar is not in DND, I correctly recieve notifications on my watch

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    I thought I did something to screw up my settings! I won't admit how many hours I spent trying to update every single app to bypass DND, while also keeping notifications silent, in order to try and get my watch to respond. Finally, I turned my phone off DND for probably the first time in 5 years as I was missing a ton of text messages/calls that my watch would normally tell me about. 

    Lesson learned to look in the forums next time before assuming it's me Rofl

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    I’m seeing the exact issue with my Garmin + Pixel setup. After the update notifications go to the watch but no vibration is triggered. Phone DND seems ignored, yet the watch stays silent.

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    5.19 fixed it but I noticed 5.19.2 is now available on the play store, can anyone confirm it works ok?

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    Frankly, the reverting back to the old mode, without actually providing the option for users to sync with DND on the phone is SO stupid. Many of us, specially shift workers, doctors, first responders, etc. have been wanting the option to sync for years. It is SO helpful, for many, to not have to manually set watch DND too, one additional task, when you're tired and you have already set phone's DND. For many, auto DND doesn't make sense either and syncing is the best way. If you're someone who's been waiting for this feature, please reach out to Garmin support so that sync option is added to the settings and not turned on by default (so folks don't freak out like they did on this thread).

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