As far as I can tell, iOS 14 hasn't fixed the issue, as I'm running the public beta and I've heard a number of notifications pop up on my phone but not appear on my watch today.
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Siri problems Apple Watch series 4 after watchOS6 update
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This fix does help, but the problem quickly returns. (Next time I'll do more thorough testing before opening my big mouth.)
More googling shows various iPhone models have many different sorts of connection issues--bluetooth and WiFi both--going back many years. Not just what is mentioned in this thread, but countless others. Having been a coder myself, and seen more than my share of convoluted logic, I can appreciate how difficult it is to fix such issues. Having to support so many different versions of devices and keeping them backward compatible makes everything all the more complicated.
Do you remember the Toyota acceleration/breaking issues of several years ago? The prosecution hired highly qualified experts to analyze the code in question to determine fault. Their finding was that it was impossible to tell whether or not the problem was in the code. The code was just too complex to make a determination. Think about that for a moment...
I once worked at a company which was responsible for a federal healthcare contract. (The company won with the lowest bid.) Determining veterans' military coverage was a primary objective of the software systems. I saw a lot of weird stuff in the year I worked there--very weird. In one quite memorable situation, I was to change code implemented the year before. A relatively simple task of essentially changing percentage values for various levels of coverage. But the code didn't exist. The prior year's requirements had simply not been done. When I told my supervisor about it, and asked what I should do, he simply replied, "do the best you can," and he flatly refused to discuss it further! Can you imagine being a building contractor and going to make changes to a home, only to discover an empty lot where the house was supposed to be? Then going back and telling the foreman that there was no house, and being told, "just do the best you can"?!! I remember commenting to a coworker that I was glad we weren't responsible for critical systems where people's lives were at stake. She sarcastically replied, "No, we just decide what health procedures are and aren't covered."
I must apologize for rambling and getting so far off the subject, but I thought some folks might be interested in knowing what goes on behind the scenes. Frankly, I'm truly surprised our technological world works as well as it does.
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WatchOS 7 Public Beta out today. Gonna download it tonight to see if it and iOS 14 solves these issues.
The new beta isn’t going to fix the problem. You are going to need to get a new phone. I know you don’t want to hear that but, it looks like that is the case. Apple isn’t going to fix the problem.
Not ready to call it fixed, but Siri definitely takes commands quicker with WatchOS 7.
Anything in particular I should try? Series 4 Apple Watch connected to a 2017 iPhone SE here.
Anything in particular I should try? Series 4 Apple Watch connected to a 2017 iPhone SE here.