Mark, Can you clear up a couple things? I get that you don’t want message notifications at all, but you said you see the latest message every time you wake your Apple Watch. Even if you are getting notifications, I don’t understand how you see a message all the time? Notifications will go away after a few seconds if you don’t look at them, so that when you next wake the screen, you see your watch face. You can then swipe down with two fingers to access notifications you may have missed, or swipe up or down on any watch face item until you get “Notification Center”. But having a notification never go away isn’t expected behavior, in my experience at least. Can you explain in more detail what’s going on? This may help us to better help you.
As to the syncing of other data, can you tell us why you want to limit this? Of course, I understand not getting notifications. That said, if you simply disable calendar notifications, say, then you never even have to know that your calendar events are on the Watch. If, however, you ever need to ask Siri on your watch what’s next on your calendar, or you want to add the calendar to a watch face, the option is there. Contacts are equally helpful, letting the watch tell you, by name, who’s calling or texting. Again, you can turn all these notifications off, but the option will be there. You can also tell Siri on the watch to “text Pete” instead of trying to dictate a full phone number each time. I’m just not seeing the need to completely stop data syncing, if you can more easily silence notifications to do with the data you don’t want. If you want the Watch to be an activity tracker, it can do that. The problem is that all its data is constantly syncing to your iPhone. If you sign into one account on the watch, and another on the phone, I don’t know whaat might happen to this syncing. I also doubt you’d get your activity and health data included in iCloud backups if your phone refuses to accept it. Finally, your actual Watch will then be registered to a different account. That’s not a problem in itself, but it does make things more complex if and when you have to talk to Apple support. Finally, I’ll say this. The Apple Watch is a very good activity tracker, no doubt. But I can’t recommend enough that, as you get more comfortable with it, you give its other functions a try. I love tapping my watch screen to wake it, then using Hey Siri to text someone or control a smart home device. My phone can be in the other room, playing media I don’t want to interrupt, hooked to a bluetooth headset with a terrible microphone, or otherwise not convenient for Siri control. Yet my Watch handles things just fine. It’s also nice to customize the watch face to add the information you need, like upcoming calendar event, weather details, a timer, commonly used apps, activity rings, whatever you find useful. The more you explore everything the Watch has to offer, the more you might find you like it as more than just a health tracker. I’m not saying you should do everything right away, or force yourself to use something you don’t feel comfortable with. All I’m saying is that there’s a great deal of convenience and power on your wrist, and I wouldn’t want to see you miss out on the opportunities your new Watch can provide. > On Jul 4, 2017, at 2:37 PM, Donna Goodin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ah, sorry. I was thinking that's how I turned it off on my iPod, but that > was a long time ago, so sounds like I must have done it some other way. > Good luck, > Donna >> On Jul 4, 2017, at 12:50 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Donna, >> >> No suggestion is rubbish. (smile) >> >> The feature you are describing is called iMessage Forwarding. It is a >> wonderful feature that applies to non-iMessage SMS. This feature does not >> apply to Apple Watch, however. >> >> Mark >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2017 4:40 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Mark's New Apple Watch with One Big Question >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> I've barely started my first cup of coffee, so apologies if this suggestion >> is rubbish. :) I think you can configure this in Settings on your phone. >> Under Messages, there's an option to have messages received on your phone go >> to all devices signed in with that Apple ID. Seems like unchecking that >> might solve your problem. I think Simon is right. The problem is that by >> default your messages go to all devices signed in with your Apple ID. But >> there is a way to stop it, I did it with my old iPod Touch, which I only use >> as a music player. >> HTH, >> Donna >> >>> On Jul 4, 2017, at 1:23 AM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Everyone, >>> >>> I just got a new Apple Watch, today. >>> >>> So far, so good. I successfully updated the software and began >>> experimenting with the various aspects of the device. >>> >>> I have one luming question: >>> >>> I absolutely do not want any iMessages being pushed to the watch. How >>> can I stop this from happening. >>> >>> Just so you know, I went into the watch app, on iPhone, and disabled >>> Message notifications but, still, every time I wake the device, I see >>> the new message I received on iPHone. >>> >>> Oh, one more thing, is there a way to prevent the device from syncing >>> info from iPhone? I expect to use this device more like a watch and a >>> fitness tracker than a communications tool. 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