If I wanted to, how could I set the watch to never lock? Also, do you
have a passcode set on your watch?
On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:29:07 -0400,
Mark Baxter wrote:
Yep, that’s the behavior I have, too. Like I said, take a prowl through
VoiceOver Settings and see if there’s a fix there. The other thing you could
do is set your Watch to never lock, which I don’t recommend, but I have found
that the haptic response from the Watch is not as reliable as it could be.
—Mark BurningHawk Baxter
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On Jul 25, 2022, at 9:26 AM, John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For instance, I just sent myself a message from another phone and got
nothing at all on the watch, not even a haptic. Notifications are now
giving me a beep, so I can at least tell its a notification, but I
have to hit the crown and tap unread notifications to see it. This
is all when the iphone is locked.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:07:37 -0400,
Mark Baxter wrote:
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
Twitter: @MarkBurningHawk
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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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