Haptics for new messages work best when the phone that the Watch is synced with
is locked. I, too, have noticed that sometimes the New Message haptics and
alerts are not reliable, but they work best when the phone is locked or when
your phone’s messages window is not in the foreground. You may be able to
customize the way VO responds when a notification happens in the Watch’s VO
settings, but like I said, once you become familiar with what each haptic
means, you might find that a silent notification is preferable. When my wife
and I are walking together somewhere, and I’m holding her hand, I can tell her
what her watch just notified her of by feeling her haptics go off. *grin*
—Mark BurningHawk Baxter
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On Jul 25, 2022, at 9:00 AM, John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for your quick response.
Well, I set it to give me notifications when wrist is down, but it
just gives me the haptic and for messages I usually get nothing at
all. I can test by sending myself a message from another phone, but
mostly I get nothing and for notifications, I get some haptic and
nothing more. I have an alarm app which sends me a nice sound for an
upcoming event, but the watch tells me nothing with vo and I want it
to at least say that is happening.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:49:34 -0400,
Mark Baxter wrote:
Hi, John.
I’m not sure I clearly understand. Apple Watch locks itself after your wrist
is lowered, or 30 seconds, of if you cover the face with your palm, by
default. When the watch is locked, VO does not speak up, instead, as you
have noted, a haptic vibrates, and you then must tap the watch face, or
raise your wrist, again depending on how you have it set. Once you unlock
the watch, VO should start speaking, usually the time, but sometimes
whatever is on your watch face. There is sometimes a “unread notifications,”
at the top left of your watch face, and a double-tap on that will bring up a
list of those. The other way to reach the Notification Center is to swipe
down twice until you hear VO say Notification Center, then double-tap to
open it.
You will eventually learn what each type of haptic means; the one used for
messages is different from the one used for other notifications, for
example. They are all different, and indeed all customizable to some extent.
Let me know if this helps, or specify what further help you need, and I’ll
be happy to provide more information.
—Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Twitter: @MarkBurningHawk
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 25, 2022, at 7:29 AM, John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi. I just bought an apple watch and it is not working properly with
voiceover. What it is doing is that if a message or a notification
comes to the iphone when its locked it goes to the apple watch, but vo
says nothing, all I get is a mysterious haptic and there is not a way to
tell what is going on. If I go to the messages app, I can see the new
message, or if I go into notifications, sometimes I see those, but I
have to guess at it and its very annoying.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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