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Receiving notifications twice for SMS

For some reason with my Vivoactive 4 connected to my Samsung S22+ I get double notifications for text messages. The first notification will come in as normal, two quick vibrations and message shown on screen, then a few seconds will pass and the notification will repeat itself. When I swipe to view all of my notifications the text is only there once so it is not like I am getting two sets of notifications sent to the watch. I verified that I only have one texting app allowed to send notifications in Garmin connect and I cannot find any settings that would cause this to happen. Is anybody else experiencing this? Has anybody fixed it?

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0 phris over 2 years ago in reply to RJK in Madison

Same, I think it's really only an issue with Google Voice. Gmail, Signal, and Slack all seem to be fine.

Nevermind, I just noticed it with Messenger too.

0 tonygraz over 2 years ago

It happens with Android 12 and google messages app.

0 RJK in Madison over 2 years ago in reply to tonygraz

If you have time, I'd appreciate if you all - phris and tonygraz - would chat support and open a ticket. They basically said 'no other reports, talk to your phone manufacturer.'

0 Mikegfx4 over 2 years ago in reply to RJK in Madison

This happens for me in google messages. No other apps seem to have this issue but I have most other notifications turned off.

0 Kevin over 2 years ago in reply to RJK in Madison

just with Google Voice for me

0 6888426 over 2 years ago in reply to RJK in Madison

I'm seeing this exact same behavior for Google Voice, from my Pixel 6.

0 skywalker993 over 2 years ago

Vivoactive 4 on the new Pixel 7 Pro running Android 13, getting duplicate notifications for almost every single Messages (SMS) notification. Buzzes and shows the message, then a few seconds later it'll buzz again with the same exact notification. I check my phone and there's only the one.

0 the4thapostle over 1 year ago

Getting the same behavior. Pixel 7.

0 phris over 1 year ago

Okay, so I have a partial solution, that at least gets rid of the blank "Voice" notification after every text. In Google Voice settings, there's "Manage Notifications". For some reason, it had my account listed twice, so I disabled one of them and haven't really seen any difference. But scrolling down, in the "Other" category, there are "Voice background tasks". Disabling these means that I only get the blank "Voice" notification texts when I have text messages from multiple people waiting and the phone thus condenses them into a stack.

It's not perfect, but it's a lot better. "Voice background tasks" was showing as "About 50 notifications per day" and turning them off has substantially improved my Garmin experience.

0 RJK in Madison over 1 year ago in reply to phris

That is a good suggestion that will help some folks. Thanks!

I have switch to a Galaxy S22 from Pixel 5 and haven't seen the issue since.