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xelways
xelways

Reputation: 3

Apple Watch Instant Notification

Is it possible to send instant notifications to Apple Watch from an iPhone app? The Apple Watch guide says "Apple Watch displays those notifications at appropriate times". So looks like there is no guarantee that the notification will be instant. I'm developing an iOS app that provides navigational notifications so those have to be instant.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 234

Answers (2)

Richard Bao
Richard Bao

Reputation: 415

You can schedule/fire a local user notification to make it shown on the Watch, with limitations:

  • Users may turn off notifications of your app on Watch.
  • Notifications are only sent to Watch when the paired iPhone is locked, and the watch is on the wrist.

Upvotes: 0

bgilham
bgilham

Reputation: 5949

Unfortunately WatchKit doesn't support it at this time. Not only can you not guarantee when the notification will appear, you can't even guarantee it will show up on the Watch. The OS decides which device is active and routes the notification there.

Upvotes: 0

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