Apple Watch Week: How Notifications Work

Every time a new notification appears on your phone - such as an SMS, Facebook comment or PayPal transaction confirmation - the watch informs the user about it.

The phone does not answer during this time, so as not to duplicate notifications and not go crazy from it. The exception is voice calls, which is understandable - they have a much higher priority.

Luckily, it doesn't work in a binary way.

The user has full control over what appears on his wrist. In the Apple Watch app on iPhone, you can enable or disable the cloning of specific notifications from your phone to your watch.

After a moment's thought, I left them all. The wrist is a really good place to receive this information - and if it becomes too intrusive, you can mute it or turn on the "do not disturb" mode.

Receiving notifications is fabulously simple.

Apple didn't choose to light up the watch screen every time a new notification appears, which was probably dictated by the need to save energy .

That's not a problem though. When you receive a vibrating signal about a new alert, just raise your hand slightly and the screen on Apple Watch will light up and show the last notification.

There's nothing stopping you from looking through the list of all notifications.

It's not always possible and not always appropriate to turn your wrist and see who or what demands your attention. Apple Watch allows you to view a list of all your notifications from the watch face screen.

The list is activated by swiping from the top edge. Notifications can be expanded and, for example, check the content of the email or perform one of the actions - delete the message, mark it as unread, etc.

Synchronization works fine.

Apple clones the content of the notification center from the phone to the watch and alerts come instantly. However, it is enough to take the phone in your hand for the watch to stop vibrating, and alerts will be available only on the phone.

The icing on the cake is the ability to mark all notifications as read. The same status can be seen on the watch and on the phone. For this purpose, the force touch gesture is used: pressing the screen harder.

It's strange that the iPhone doesn't have this function.

The following materials have already been published as part of the "Week with Apple Watch" series:

We would like to remind you that several other materials about Apple Watch have previously appeared on Spider's Web: