On your Apple Watch or iPhone running iOS 17, there is an option that you can enable to receive timely notifications for scheduled notifications. If you’re wearing your Apple Watch, the alert from the Medication app will sound on your watch.
However, this hasn’t been the case for the past few days as many users are complaining about the Medication App Notification Bug on their Apple Watch and iPhone running iOS 17. Users have been raising their concern that they get the notification on their iPhone first and after a 15-20 second delay, this alert appears on their Apple Watch.
All the other app alerts from other apps are appearing on the Apple Watch as they used to, which means the issue is with the Medication app itself. Interestingly, even the recent OS releases, the iOS 17.1 and watchOS 10.1 updates did not do any good. If you’re looking for a workaround, then this guide will be helpful. In this guide, you will get to know how to fix the Medication App Notification Bug on Apple Watch and iPhones running iOS 17.
How to fix Medication App Notification Bug on Apple Watch and iPhones running iOS 17
While there isn’t an official workaround that will make the medication app notification only on your watch like it previously used to, you can still stop the redundancy of the app notifying you on your phone first and then on your watch by tapping on the “marked as token” option in the prompt that pops up on your iPhone. Doing this will make the prompt pop up on your watch again.
As for the official stance on this matter, the developers haven’t acknowledged this issue yet. One of the reasons for this could be that only a limited number of users of reported this issue. If you’re on the receiving end of this issue, then ensure that you’re filing a bug report at the earliest.
