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Stand & Watch OS Notifications Bypassing Sleep Schedule & Sleep Focus

I had an AW SE and recently upgraded to AW Series 12. On both watches, despite my sleep schedule being set and sleep focus on, I still get stand notification at 3:50am every single night, and also Watch OS notifications (update is available or update did not install), both of which completely bypass my schedule & focus settings.


I have tried every trick I've come across and nothing works.


To confirm:

  • I have a sleep schedule set from 10pm - 6:30am every day.
  • I have sleep focus set
  • Intelligent Breakthroughs is OFF
  • Allow notifications - people & apps are set to NONE ALLOWED
  • Silence notifications is set to ALWAYS


I have tried deleting my sleep schedule and sleep focus, shutting down, then re-adding. That didn't work. Watch & phone are all updated to the latest OS. I can't figure out why these are getting through and bypassing my settings, but I'm getting real tired (literally) of this waking me up, I've stopped wearing it at night completely which really defeats half the purpose of even having the watch.

2 replies

Hi there


Please try this

  • Open the Watch app on your iPhone.
  • Tap My Watch, then go to Activity.
  • Toggle Stand Reminders to OFF. (You can re-enable this in the morning if you track your daily standing hours, or leave it off permanently)


I’ve done that, which stopped the stand reminders stopped - but it doesn’t negate the fact it was happening in the first place.


Also - the last 2 nights I’ve been woken in the middle of the night by other notifications getting pushed through. Currently wide awake at 3am because I got a message in WhatsApp that came through to my watch, and the night before from the school bus app at my kids school.


Neither of those are on my “allowed” list and both completely bypassed sleep schedule and focus.