Not getting watch notifications for SMS messages

Since the 20.x firmware versions I no longer get full screen watch notifications for regular SMS messages, even when smart messages for text messages are enabled in the watch settings. The sms messages still shows up in the notification glance, and when an sms arrives, I can still see notification count on the watch face go from 0 to 1. So the sms notifications arrive to the watch, but the watch no longer vibrates and shows them full screen. Phone call notifications and other app notifications still work as before. 

Has anyone else noticed this or is it just my watch? I've tried force-rebooting the watch with no effect.

  • I do have the feeling I miss quite a few notifications. For me mostly from whatsapp.

    Problem is, I really cannot tell I miss them because I don’t feel the rather week vibrations or there is a bug that causes no vibration alerts.

  • In my case there's definitely no alert , since I can watch the watch face notification count change and no alert appears for sms messages. 

    With WhatsApp it may also be caused by WhatsApp itself. It doesn't trigger a new phone alert if a prior alert happened just a short while ago (at least on Android).