How to Silence Your Apple Watch to Mute Notifications

Do you want to silence your Apple Watch to mute those seemingly never-ending notifications? Then you have come to the right guide. It is important to receive notifications regarding messages from the office or phone calls from home.

However, it can sometimes be very intrusive when focusing on your work or taking a quick nap. With the Apple Watch strapped to your wrist, you are with it around the clock.

Normally, the iPhone and the Apple Watch are in sync, so any notification on the iPhone (or the iPad) will be reflected on the Apple Watch. However, the continuous blinking of notifications can be quite irritating. Thankfully, to simplify the user’s life, Apple offers sufficient controls to silence the notifications on the Apple Watch.

How to Silence Your Apple Watch

Here are various methods for turning off your Apple Watch so it won’t disturb you with notifications.

1. Silence the Notifications from the iPhone

Here is a cool trick you can enable from the iPhone settings to use on the Apple Watch: It will stop the ringing of any notification.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Go to Sounds & Haptics.
3. Under its settings, navigate to Cover to Mute and enable it by flipping the switch beside it.

When any notification alert appears on the Apple Watch, simply cover the watch with your hands. Do it for three seconds and the notification will stop.

While it is a neat little trick to avert notification alerts and silence your Apple Watch, it may be distracting if notifications keep appearing occasionally. You cannot leave your work every time and waste a few seconds covering up the watch.

2. Silence Your Apple Watch Using the Control Center

You can silence the notification alerts on your Apple Watch by accessing the control center settings within the watch.

1. Swipe upwards on the display of the Apple watch. The Control Center will appear.
2. A bell icon denotes notifications. Tap on it, and it will turn pink. The bell icon now has a line on it, which indicates that silent mode on the Apple Watch has been enabled.
   

Make sure to turn off the Haptic alerts. Otherwise, you will feel the haptic vibration even if you hear no sound for an incoming notification. This can be distracting at a meeting, in the classroom, or while sleeping.

Here are the steps to turn off the haptic vibrations on your Apple Watch.

1. Launch the Watch app on your iPhone.
2. Next, tap Sounds & Haptics.
3. Tap the switch beside the option Haptic Alerts to disable it.

3. Enable Theater Mode on Apple Watch

Apple Watch offers a helpful feature called Theater Mode. When enabled, it will turn the screen dark until you manually tap on it or press the watch’s crown. The Raise Wrist to Wake Screen feature is disabled when you activate Theater Mode.

1. Swipe up on the Apple Watch and open the Control Center.
2. Navigate to the Theater Mode icon and tap on it to enable it. (The icon has two faces symbol)
   
3. When you want to disable Theater Mode, follow the above steps again and tap on the Theater Mode icon to disable it.

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4. Enable DND and Silence Apple Watch Notifications

Finally, the classic way to get rid of all noisy notification alerts. Yes, you must enable the Do Not Disturb or DND as it is popularly called. When DND is active, your smartwatch won’t let out any sound or light up the screen when any notification appears.

There are exceptions to Do Not Disturb that you cannot bypass. When DND is enabled, heart rate alerts, alarms, and timers will remain unaffected. However, any notification related to these elements will be quite loud.

To enable Do Not Disturb mode on Apple Watch,

1. Access the Control Center on the Apple Watch by swiping up on the watch display.
2. Tap the moon icon,, which represents the Do Not Disturb feature on Apple Watch. This icon toggles between enabling and disabling Do Not Disturb.
   

Wrapping Up

Notifications are important, but never at the cost of your work, meetings, classes, or sleep. You must decide when you do not want to be distracted by notifications from your gadgets. Use the tips in the guide to silence your Apple Watch alerts.