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Reminders app not working for kid's "family setup" watch

Kid has an apple watch that has "family setup" through my iPhone. No matter what I do, notifications for reminders do not show up on the kid's watch. Notifications for reminders DO show up on kid's iPad. But the watch gets no notification at all - no sound, no haptic, and not even a record of the missed notification when you swipe down on the watch to see old notifications.


I went in to "notifications" in settings, and "Reminders" doesn't even show up there, so there's no way to toggle notification settings for the Reminder app.


Any help would be appreciated. Thx.

Apple Watch SE

Posted on Jun 11, 2023 5:00 PM

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Posted on Sep 4, 2023 10:00 AM

This is an issue that a lot of families wish that Apple would address. Currently, a watch that is a “family device”, like a stand-alone watch for a child that is set up through a parent’s iPhone does not have access to the same settings menu in the Watch app that the parent’s watch has in that same menu.

Yes, I verified this through Apple support.

I see this an Apple pressuring everyone to have a dedicated iPhone attached to every watch. What Apple is refusing to accept is that families could simply want watches for their children instead phones, until they are old enough, responsible enough, etc.

The functionalities that we’re looking for, to help our children succeed, are not available to us, simply because of this limitation with Family Devices.

So the Reminders app will not the send the notifications that our children badly need, because we don’t have access to the Notification settings.

Apple really needs to fix this.


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