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… -
Hey Guys,
Im new to the Suunto ecosystem, coming from an Apple Watch user for many years. I just couldn’t handle the battery life of the Apple Watch, especially when on multi day moto trips etc and my 2 choices were Garmin and Suunto, and after a bit of comparison the Suunto won.
Very happy with the Suunto overall, however, my biggest “gripe” at this point is the lack of granular notification control. Has there been any news on if anything might change from Suuntos side on this?
Thanks
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Same problem here. COROS lets you enable or disable notifications by app, so you can choose which ones you receive on your watch
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I still don’t understand why Suunto does not change this since other apps handle this better. So it is definitely possible.
I use the workaround that Milan described above. But it means that I need to change it again and again when new apps are installed which provide notifications. Really annoying.
But beside that I am really happy with the Run, taking the price level into account aswell.
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With iOS, Garmin allows you to block app notifications per app, and you select it on the watch. When a notification comes in, you can either clear the notification or block notifications for that app altogether. They also have focus modes which gives you even more granular control…but that’s another conversation.
I’m much more a fan of the Suunto ecosystem, otherwise I’d be using a Garmin, but there is some catching up to do on this side of things.
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@Milan-Šádek I looked into this workaround, but unless I am mistaken, this makes it so you don’t get notifications on your lock screen.
So, when my phone is at my desk facing up and it vibrates, I cannot see what the notification is for unless I manually swipe up from the center of the screen.
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