When my Mac is turned on, my iPhone / Apple Watch refuse to ping me for iOS Notifications such as Calendar notifications. I get the notification on my Mac but my Apple Watch will not ping me. From what I can tell everything is setup correctly to receive notifications on my phone and my watch but when the Mac is on, it steals notifications. How do I disable this so that my watch still buzzes me even when my Mac is on?
IOS – Mac silencing consuming / stealing notifications from the iPhone / Apple Watch
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You can turn them all off, turn off all but Ringtone (receiving phone calls), or keep them all on.
Note: Any events that are not listed here can be turned off from the apps that produce them.
This is not possible (at least on a non-jailbroken phone).
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Best Answer
This might blow a lot of people's minds. After spending hours trying to figure this out with no answers online, here's the answer I figured out.
The problem is that Calendar notifications are by default configured to be "Alerts" rather than banners. When you have a notification set to an "Alert" the device you currently have open (in the order of Mac > Watch > Phone) will steal the Alert from your other devices and you will never be notified because it showed up on your Mac. Thus, the trick is to set the Calendar notifications to be Banners rather than Alerts. In fact, you should set all of your notifications for all apps to be Banners because the Alert style breaks the whole purpose of your Apple Watch. The whole point of the Apple Watch is that it's on your body and lets you know when you need to notified. But if you have any notifications set to Alert rather than Banner style, your notifications will be stolen away from your Watch by your Mac.
I'm puzzled by the lack of documentation and information on this subject from Apple.