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Garmin Connect Android Notifications broken

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11 days ago

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. 

  • 0 5 days ago

    This is so frustrating. I loved that my watch still vibrated when I got calls/message when my phone was in do not disturb (which is all day at work). If I wanted the watch to be in do not disturb I would tell it so. 

  • 0 5 days ago

    I have found somewhat of a solution to this problem. If you are just using the dropdown menu to toggle "Do not disturb" on it does not fix the problem; however, if you are like me and you use "modes and routines" to set "Do not Disturb" for work or other schedules, this will fix the problem.

    In your settings, go to "Modes and Routines." Instead of telling it to enable "do not disturb," in the "stay focused" section, under "Other actions" click "More actions for this mode" and select "Sound mode and volume" and you can silence all call and notifications. I have done this and my phone is silent while my watch still vibrates. Honestly, I think I might prefer this now that I see that I can change my work schedule. If I take a nap, I was having to turn DND on my phone AND watch to not get woken up, but I can still get notification on my watch if it's a scheduled mode. 

  • 0 5 days ago in reply to 3986702

    Thanks for thatPray.

    This could work as long as you have a Samsung Galaxy phone, since Modes and Routines is a feature available only on Galaxy devices running Android 11 or higher with One UI 3.1 or above. For non-Samsung Android phones, it might work using a 3rd-party automation app.

  • 0 5 days ago in reply to seilogramp

    Oh, good to know! That sucks that there's no work around for other people :( 

  • 0 5 days ago in reply to 3986702
    3986702 said:
    there's no work around for other people

    There might be, but I can't test it on my old-ish Samsung phone with Android 10 and One UI 3.0.

    seilogramp said:
    For non-Samsung Android phones, it might work using a 3rd-party automation app.
  • 0 5 days ago

    Same issue. Pixel 9 pro Android 16. To fix this go to the do not disturb settings. There is a list of apps which can interrupt. Click on that, go to selected apps settings and add Garmin Connect. Looks like you can select which notifications from Garmin Connect can interrupt but I've just allowed all notifications. Seems to work.

  • 0 5 days ago in reply to rkolewe

    Hmm, adding Garmin Connect to apps that are allowed to interrupt DND does not allow smart notifications of other apps to go to my watch on my Pixel 7. I have to turn off DND and turn my ring and notification volumes down, and turn off vibrate.

  • 0 5 days ago in reply to overridex

    I'll try both of these potential solutions. It's quite hilarious that if, to get notification alerts on the watch whilst not having the phone alerting in some way you now to set up the entire opposite! What developer doesn't understand the use case here and see the irony?! It worked perfectly for me before. 

    As another anecdotal experience, I'm seeing a difference in behaviour when in activity and out. I no longer can get any alerts at all out of an activity, but get some app alerts during an activity. 

  • 0 4 days ago

    Instead of Do Not disturb in Android you could set to no sound on calls and notifications by using the volume button and then selecting the no sound on the top of the bar