If you've had other watches in the past that have had the ability to make a chime sound every hour and thought that this feature isn't on the Apple Watch - think again. With a little setup, you can learn a little about getting hourly chime notifications turned on and working.
Steps
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Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. The Apple Watch app is shown as a silver watch (the view is from the side) with an all-black background.
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Navigate the menus to get these chimes. Tap the "Clock" item. You may have to scroll down a bit to find it. Depending on what your menu looks like, it should be between "Calendar" and "Contacts" in the list.Advertisement
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Turn on "Chimes". Tap the switch to the right of "Chimes" until the switch turns green.
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Select the sound that you'd like your watch to play. Tap the "Sounds" option and select either "Bells" or "Birds". It will default to "Bells", and there are no previews for either one from your phone and you'll instead be looking and waiting for the chimes.
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Make sure you are wearing your Apple Watch, and that it is unlocked and ready to receive notifications. Unlike normal non-digital watches which sound the chime regardless of status at all hours of the day - whether on your wrist or off, the Apple Watch will sound these notifications only when it's unlocked and on your wrist.
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Understand the makeup of the hourly chime. The hourly chime is easy to miss. Sometimes the sounds are loud enough to hear, while other times the chime is hard to hear. However, the "chime" also comes with "haptic feedback" of only one vibration which can be felt regardless.
Warning : Be careful if you feel like silencing your Apple Watch via the Watch's menu box, as this will make neither the chime nor the haptic feedback give you the responses you desire until you turn the sounds back on.
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Realize that there's no physical preview of any notifications for the hourly chime and it won't add these notifications into the Watch's notifications center. If you miss it, you may hate the watch for not providing backup. Take the cue from the watch the first few times and provide a secondary source of clocks until you get used to the hourly chime and the way it feels and sounds.Advertisement
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