watchos26.1 ruined short look tap to view notification AGAIN.

Watchos26.1 has ruined short-look "tap to view" notifications again.

This issue was fixed on watchos26.

With the short look setting on, on os26 where it says "notification" you would get a brief headline of the start of the message/notification you received. Now it's back to just saying notification until I tap on it.

IF I have the short look notification setting turned OFF and an Imessage notification comes through... it opens the entire message thread instead of showing I have a notification from said contact. This is extremely frustrating and ive tried every setting to stop this from opening the full thread and to just display a short look of the notification!! I thought maybe the imessage notification preview setting may have been bugging it, but nope. I HATE THIS.

I have a series 10 watch with a iphone 12.

Apple Watch Series 10, watchOS 26

Posted on Nov 13, 2025 4:37 PM

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watchos26.1 ruined short look tap to view notification AGAIN.

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