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Souffiane
Souffiane

Reputation: 33

Watchkit - How to schedule notification only for Apple Watch?

I have created an App with Apple Watch extension.

I would like to know if it's possible to schedule a notification that only appears on the Apple Watch. And conversely, can we schedule a notification to only appear on the iPhone?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1860

Answers (2)

cnoon
cnoon

Reputation: 16663

This is a great question, but unfortunately it is not possible at this time. Apple is trying to be very pragmatic about how they direct notifications. If you iPhone is unlocked, they assume you are looking at it and will route notifications there. If you iPhone is locked, then all notifications will be routed to your Apple Watch. They want to avoid duplicated notifications in both locations at all costs.

Currently there is no ability to force route remote or local notifications directly to the Watch only. If you feel strongly about this feature, then I would suggest you file an enhancement radar with the Apple Bug Reporting System.

Upvotes: 4

EnriMR
EnriMR

Reputation: 3970

In the official Apple documentation they said that:

Apple Watch takes full advantage of the existing interactive notification support on iOS. If your iOS app supports notifications, Apple Watch displays those notifications at appropriate times. When one of your app’s local or remote notifications arrives on the user’s iPhone, iOS decides whether to display that notification on the iPhone or on the Apple Watch. For notifications sent to Apple Watch, the system lets the the user know subtly that a notification is available. If the user chooses to view the notification, the system displays an abbreviated version of the notification first, followed by a more detailed version. The user can dismiss the detailed notification, launch your WatchKit app, or act on the notification by tapping an available action button.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/WatchKitProgrammingGuide/BasicSupport.html

So I think you can tell to iOS the behavior of your notifications (When one of your app’s local or remote notifications arrives on the user’s iPhone, iOS decides whether to display that notification on the iPhone or on the Apple Watch. For notifications sent to Apple Watch, the system lets the the user know subtly that a notification is available.)

Upvotes: -1

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