Filter notification on iOS
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Hi,
I’m totally new to Suunto and received my Suunto Run only yesterday. It’s my first running watch, coming from a hybrid Withings ScanWatch. Until now I’m really impressed.
So I activated notifications on the watch. Since I use a company iPhone (also for private stuff), this leads to a lot of notifications from Outlook and Teams that I want so see on my phone but not on my watch. I miss the feature to limit the apps that I want to receive notifications from in the Suunto app. E.g. limit this to GMail and messengers like WhatsApp.
Does such a feature exist and I’m just to dumb to find it?
Regards
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@SimonDe Hi Simon, to prevent notifications from appearing on your watch, go to Settings > Notifications and, for each app, disable Notification Center and enable Banners instead.
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Thanks Milan, I’ll give it a try. But it sounds like a workaround if this can only be achieved with playing around with iOS’ notification settings.
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@SimonDe iOS has its limits or better say a different approach than Android, there you can do lots more e.g. reject a call with a predefined message, mark a task as done, etc. Suunto can do only what Apple allows them.
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But Withings gives the user the possibility to select which app notifications he/she wants to see on the watch. They even implemented it as an empty white list if I remember correctly. So I had to explicitly select the apps whose notifications should be forwarded to the watch.
I would assume Suunto could implement it the same way.
If a ablcklist or whitelist approach is used is probably something you could debate on, but filtering out messages on iOS seems to be possible. -
I do not think there is much of/any option to filter notificationswith iOS… on or off. But I could be wrong.
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@Milan-Šádek the same as Garmin says, but it is only half of the truth. You can do the simple (or lazy) approach, to send every notification to the watch as you get them from the notification center. But you could also implement a filter between the notification and the push to the watch. Or even inside the watch.
I get that iOS possibly limits you to find out what apps are installed, so you cannot choose in the beginning. But I remember the Galaxy Watch Active2, where I could define on the watch that I never want to have a notification from “this app” again, as I got a notification there. So it would be possible to build a blacklist even directly in the watch, if the notification is pushed to the watch directly from iOS…
As @SimonDe says other companies go that extra mile…
