How to Manage Notification Grouping on Apple Watch

 In this article, we have discussed about the ways using which you can manage Notification Grouping on Apple Watch. To prevent n number of alerts from cluttering the lock screen or complete Notification Center, Notification Grouping comes into play. If all the alerts are present in well-organized stacks according to your apps and or nature, it will be easy to navigate through and get access to any of the specific notifications needed in a bit more convenient way. Furthermore, you can also manage Notification Grouping with watchOS 7 on your Apple Watch. Doing this will help you use your preferred way of stacking the on-screen alerts. If you want the alerts to re-appear in their traditional form, you can disable the way you have stacked them.

Manage Notification Grouping on watchOS

Before we proceed on to how to manage Notification Grouping, let’s discuss the difference between By App and Automatic notification grouping so that, depending upon your requirements, you can opt for the one that’s right for you.

So, what’s the difference between By App and Automation Notification Grouping? To find the answer to this, we have listed several points you can go through. Similar to iOS 14, notifications are grouped by watchOS in two ways: By App and Automatically. In the “By App” mode, all the notifications are grouped in a single stack per app. However, in the “Automatic” mode, the notifications get stacked based upon the following nature: time, contacts, thread, discussion, and more. Hence, it totally depends on the user, which notification grouping mode he prefers to use.

Some users would like to group notifications in a single stack per app for apps related to finance, personal, activity, and expense tracking. This model provides users, convenience to check alerts in a clutter-free manner, from an app, in a single stack. It also ensures that the users don’t have to go anywhere else to find the required alerts of an app.

The other users might prefer using the “Automatic” mode, and that too mainly for the apps like reminders and news. While using the automatic mode, watchOS uses a machine-learning mechanism in order to monitor how a user interacts with the alerts and stacks the notifications to obtain a tailored experience. Depending on your preferences, the user can select his desired notification grouping style for apps. With that said, let’s get started with the steps, how the user can manage Notification Grouping on watchOS:

Choose the Preferred Style of Notification Grouping on watchOS

Please be noted that watchOS allows users to manage notification grouping per-app basis. So, you have to dig into every app in order to fine-tune its setting.

1. First, open the Watch app on your paired iOS device.
2. Further, click on the tab “My Watch.” You will find it on the left side on the bottom of your device’s screen.
3. Now, press the option “Notifications.”
4. Then, navigate to the app that is in question (the one that supports notification grouping).
5. Post navigating to the app, you need to click on the option Notification Grouping.
6. Finally, you need to opt from the three options listed below:
7. Off: You can select “Off” to disable Notification Grouping for this particular app.
8. Automatically: This mode is selected by default. However, if it has been changed previously, you can select it to allow watchOS stack notifications for this specific app.
9. By App: You need to select “By App” if you want all your notifications to be grouped in a single stack by watchOS.

So, these were the details regarding how to manage Notification Grouping on watchOS. Now that you are well aware of the options available, you may select your preferred one that meets your requirements. With that said, it would have been of great help to the users if watchOS would have offered users to select the system-wide notification grouping style. Thankfully, Apple has brought it in watchOS 8. However, watchOS 7 has also met almost all the expectations of the users. All hail to the features like battery health, sleep tracking, hand wash detection, and more. All these features make watchOS 7 a great platform for Apple Watches.

So, what’s your opinion about the latest watchOS version? What would you prefer to see in the experience in the watchOS 8? Do let us know in the comments section below:

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