How to deliver Apple Watch notifications quietly

Your Apple Watch makes it slow to triage unwanted notifications equally presently equally they striking your wrist. Starting alongside watchOS 5, you lot tin elect to convey notifications from a specific app delivered quietly. With tranquillity delivery, the notification goes straight to your Notification Center on Apple Watch as well as its associated iPhone, without showing upward on the spotter display or making a sound. This is a non bad agency to halt those annoying or unwanted alerts without needing to fiddle alongside your notification settings inwards the companion Watch app on iPhone.

When you lot haven’t used an app for a while, Siri suggests that you lot plough off notifications for that app, which is super nice. If you’d similar to triage your notifications correct at that topographic point as well as then, however, you lot tin exercise thus inwards 3 ways: alongside Instant Tuning, via Notification Center or past times adjusting your notification settings inwards the Settings app on your paired iPhone,

Delivering Apple Watch notifications quietly

Method #1: Instant Tuning

To triage your notifications on the fly, role the Instant Tuning feature.

1) First, swipe left over a notification or notification grouping equally presently equally it arrives on your wrist, or press firmly alongside Force Touch, as well as thus tap the three-dotted Manage icon.

2) Now select a desired notification delivery option:

• Deliver Quietly: Notifications are sent straight to Notification Center on both the spotter as well as the telephone without making a audio or displaying whatever alerts.


• Turn Off on Apple Watch: Stop the app from sending whatever notifications.

Choosing Delivery Quietly ensures you lot won’t larn inundated alongside pesky notifications from that app going forwards but tin silent banking company jibe them out via Notification Center. In other words, this toggle prevents an app’s notifications from buzzing your wrist or lighting upward the display.

You tin also press a notification alongside Force Touch to give away the Manage menu

According to Apple’s description of Delivery Quietly:

If you lot don’t wish to hear sounds or haptic alerts for that app, tap Deliver Quietly. Notifications for that app become straight to Notification Center on both your Apple Watch as well as iPhone, instead of showing you lot a notification alongside a audio or haptic alert.

Deliver Quietly does merely that on both your spotter as well as telephone unless this is a stock app that supports withdraw delivery to Notification Center, inwards which instance its notification settings tin live on adjusted on each device independently (more on that later).

Deliver Quietly also affects iPhone notifications

If you’d similar to triage alerts from within Notification Center, you lot tin exercise that too.

Method #2: Notification Center

To triage a notification after the fact:

1) Bring upward the Notification Center overlay past times swiping downward from the top of your spotter face. If you’re currently using an app, you lot don’t postulate to larn dorsum to the spotter human face upward to access Notification Center: tap and concur the display top, hold off for the Notification Center grip to show, as well as thus swipe down.

2) Swipe left on a notification or grouping of notifications, as well as thus striking the three-dotted Manage icon.

3) To halt audio or haptic alerts, tap Deliver Quietly.

Sliding over a notification gets you lot to the Manage carte du jour faster

All alerts from that app volition live on routed to Notification Center on both your Apple Watch as well as iPhone, instead of showing a wrist notification alongside a audio or haptic warning (alerts for stock apps tin live on adjusted separately on the telephone as well as the watch, but to a greater extent than on that later).

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Would you lot similar to continue seeing app notifications on your iPhone but non on the watch? No problem, choosing the pick Turn Off on Apple Watch volition exercise the trick.

Method #3: adjusting notification settings

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For surely stock apps, you lot tin customize how they display notifications as well as elect to convey their alerts delivered straight to the Notification Center on your wrist.

The next stock Apple apps back upward withdraw delivery to Notification Center:

• Activity


• Breathe


• Calendar


• Mail


• Messages


• Podcasts


• Reminders


• Wallet


• Walkie-Talkie


• Wallet

To pick out how these apps force notifications to your wrist, exercise the following:

1) Open the companion Watch app on your paired iPhone.

2) Tap the My Watch tab.

3) Choose Notifications from the list.

4) Select an app, tap Custom, as well as thus pick out an option:

• Allow Notifications: The app displays notifications inwards Notification Center as well as the spotter alerts you.


• Notifications Off: The app sends no notifications.


• Send to Notification Center: Notifications are sent straight to Notification Center without the spotter making a audio or displaying the notification. This is literally the same equally selecting Quiet Delivery via Instant Tuning.

But wait, how exercise you lot revert to prominent notification delivery?

Delivering Apple Watch notifications prominently

As mentioned, the Deliver Quietly characteristic silences notifications from an app or grouped notifications on both your telephone as well as watch.

To encounter as well as hear silenced alerts again, access the Notification Center overlay on Apple Watch, swipe left on a notification or press it alongside Force Touch, as well as thus striking the triple-dotted carte du jour as well as pick out the pick that Deliver Prominently. Keep inwards hear you lot tin also exercise this on the wing when the notification arrives, thank you lot to the Instant Tuning option, which is agency easier.

You’ve deleted the warning as well as at nowadays it’s nowhere to live on industrial plant life inwards Notification Center?

No problem, merely re-enable the app listed underneath the Mirror iPhone Alerts From heading inwards My Watch → Notifications within the companion Watch app on iPhone.

If this is a stock app that supports tranquillity delivery, pick out it from the listing nether My Watch → Notifications inwards the companion Watch app, as well as thus pick out the pick Allow Notifications.

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By the way, the spotter defaults to mirroring iPhone alerts. To have the spotter as well as the telephone role their ain notification settings, pick out the pick Custom instead of Mirror My iPhone inwards your notification settings inwards the companion Watch app.

Summing up

To recap, this is what the triaging options do:

Deliver Quietly

Disables the next switches in Settings → Notifications → [App Name] on iPhone:

• Lock Screen


• Banners


• Sounds


• Badges

Here’s what the toggle setup for Deliver Quietly looks like.

And these switches larn enabled automatically:

• Allow Notifications


• Notification Center

It’s also delisted from My Watch → Notifications underneath the heading Mirror iPhone Alerts From in the Watch app.

Alerts for stock watchOS apps tin live on managed independently of iPhone

For stock apps, Deliver Quietly enables Send to Notification Center inwards My Watch → Notifications → [App Name] in the Watch app without affecting their notification settings on iPhone.

Deliver Prominently

Enables these switches in Settings → Notifications → [App Name] on iPhone.

• Allow Notifications


• Lock Screen


• Notification Center


• Banners


• Sounds


• Badges

Here’s how Deliver Prominently adjusts the iPhone warning settings.

Furthermore, the app is automatically re-added to My Watch → Notifications underneath the heading Mirror iPhone Alerts From in the Watch app.

For stock apps, choosing this enables Allow Notifications in My Watch → Notifications → [App Name] inwards the Watch app without affecting their warning settings on iPhone.

Turn Off on Apple Watch

Disables My Watch → Notifications → [App Name] underneath the heading Mirror iPhone Alerts From inwards the Watch app, equally evidenced past times the screenshot embedded correct below.

For stock apps, choosing this pick enables Notifications Off in My Watch → Notifications → [App Name] inwards the Watch app without changing the app’s notifications settings on iPhone.

Keep inwards hear i thing: if an app is ready for tranquillity notification delivery as well as you lot manually re-enable both Banners and Sounds inwards Settings → Notifications → [App Name] on iPhone, doing thus volition right away plough off Quiet Delivery on both the telephone as well as the watch.

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Lastly, sliding the switch Allow Notifications inwards Settings → Notifications → [App Name] on iPhone to the OFF position stops all alerts from that app on both the telephone as well as the watch.

And that’s how you lot triage notifications on your Apple Watch similar a pro.

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