Apple Watch: No Haptic Warning When Battery Hits 10%

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Apple Watch: No Haptic Warning When Battery Hits 10%

Since I upgraded to an iPhone Air and WatchOS 26, my watch no longer warns me when the battery goes below 10%. I use to get a haptic warning, but now I only see the warning when checking the screen. I tried to set Haptics to Prominent, which works for all other notifications, just not this one. I have restarted both the iPhone and the Watch. This has had no effect. Any suggestions? I'm hoping the solution is not unpair/repair the Watch to the iPhone because this is just a cumbersome process.

Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 26

Posted on Nov 10, 2025 4:33 PM

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Ingo2711

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Nov 11, 2025 4:40 AM in response to ChrisSOracle

The charging reminder is still enabled in the settings for Sleep?

There also might be other ways to get the notification for 10% battery life:

How to get a notification to charge Apple… - Apple Community

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Ingo2711

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Nov 11, 2025 8:40 AM in response to ChrisSOracle

I'm getting the battery charging warning once, when my battery drops below 20%.

After that I have to remember to charge the watch in time. And of course the warning before the Sleep Schedule, which I have disabled for my Ultra.

You can let Apple Techs know directly about this missing feature, if enough users do that, maybe we will see a change in a future watchOS update.

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ChrisSOracle Author

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Nov 11, 2025 6:36 AM in response to Ingo2711

Thanks for your response. This setting only warns you if you don't have enough watch battery for tracking sleep during a Sleep focus.

My issue is if the battery falls below 10% at any time of the day, there is no notification to make me aware of it, except for displaying a message on the watch face. There is no sound or haptic notification to accompany the message.

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