Gear S3 - Dismissing Notifications Q

[Stwutter]

Just got my Gear S3 Frontier yesterday. I had reservations about going from Android Wear to Tizen, but, thus far, I'm really impressed, and the build & look of the watch is fantastic.

However, I do have a query abut notifications, and dismissing them.

When I get a notification from, say, Instagram, and I look at it on my watch, is there a way to dismiss this immediately? What I find is that it's full screen if the 'Auto Show Details' is checked on the app, or the full message detail if it's unchecked. But, regardless, if you do the usual swipe up direct from that notification, it doesn't work. It seems the only way to dismiss this is to either wait for it to go and then open it by swiping or moving the bezel left, or to go back home and then go back into the notification. It just seems odd that there's no option to just dismiss this as soon as it pops up - maybe that is the case, but can anyone advise if this is so, or am I missing a setting that can change this? The other mildly frustrating thing (connected to the above) is that when you've dismissed all notifications, the watch doesn't automatically revert to the watch face. So if you get rid everything, and just leave it, the next time you look at you watch, it lights up and takes you back to showing you you have no messages. I find this a little odd too.

Small nuances on a great device but thought it was worth sharing & asking.

 

[ratsttam]

It should be the same on the s3 unless they changed something when they added the bezel motions, but on my s2, I swipe from the bottom to the top and it clears off the active notification.

 

[Stwutter]

It should be the same on the s3 unless they changed something when they added the bezel motions, but on my s2, I swipe from the bottom to the top and it clears off the active notification.

Cheers.

Yeah, it does that fine when I go into notifications from swiping left or using the bezel from the home/clock screen. But the Q was more when they first pop up - swiping up then does nothing (So, if I have all notifications cleared, then my watch vibrates, so I look at it. It shows the notification as full screen/brand new, but you can't just swipe up from there - but if you hit the home button, then left you can swipe up to dismiss). It just fills the whole screen and you just get that little haptic feedback telling you it's not an action.

 

[ratsttam]

Cheers.

Yeah, it does that fine when I go into notifications from swiping left or using the bezel from the home/clock screen. But the Q was more when they first pop up - swiping up then does nothing (So, if I have all notifications cleared, then my watch vibrates, so I look at it. It shows the notification as full screen/brand new, but you can't just swipe up from there - but if you hit the home button, then left you can swipe up to dismiss). It just fills the whole screen and you just get that little haptic feedback telling you it's not an action.

My bad. I misunderstood the steps you took. I have mine set to not display automatically so I've never come across that

 

[Stwutter]

I have mine set to not display automatically so I've never come across that

When you say this, can I ask what setting you mean pls?

 

[Stwutter]

Just as an update: I've noticed that, if you just ignore the notification that you can't delete straight away (about 20-30 secs I think), then the next time I look at the watch it's back to the watch-face, with the little orange marker on the left showing I have an unread.

As I said, it's no biggie, but I think this would be nice to be changed in a future update.

 

[optimummind]

Just as an update: I've noticed that, if you just ignore the notification that you can't delete straight away (about 20-30 secs I think), then the next time I look at the watch it's back to the watch-face, with the little orange marker on the left showing I have an unread.

As I said, it's no biggie, but I think this would be nice to be changed in a future update.

Don't you have the option of clicking on the 3-dots menu button then selecting delete?

 

[Stwutter]

Don't you have the option of clicking on the 3-dots menu button then selecting delete?

I do, but that would completely defeat the object of my initial post.

 

[daves221]

Just as an update: I've noticed that, if you just ignore the notification that you can't delete straight away (about 20-30 secs I think), then the next time I look at the watch it's back to the watch-face, with the little orange marker on the left showing I have an unread.

As I said, it's no biggie, but I think this would be nice to be changed in a future update.

That's the best I've figured out yet too on this..

 

[Snareman]

Coming from Android wear I've had this same frustration. I liked the way notifications shows up and could be dismissed much better with AW. I could scroll up through the notification just flicking my wrist and easily swipe it away. It seems to take more effort to do all of that on my S3.

 

[dotexey]

I had this exact though and found your post describing it the same way. Wish I had a solution to add, just wanted to chime in and add that there are more of us with the same complaint.

 

[daves221]

Same. I have to clear the display, then bezel left and clear the actual notification. Should be that if you clear the message when it first displays, then the notification itself is cleared. The other thing I miss slightly is the undo on notification clears, used that infrequently but was handy when needed. Overall very happy with tizen .. is better than aw in many ways, and the s3 is incredible.

 

[Stwutter]

I went back to my Huawei Watch in the end.

It's been odd going back to a 'small' watch after a month, but, for all it's supposed failings, Android Wear is just more intuitive and easier to navigate.

Yeah, the rotating bezel was a nice touch, and, if I were sitting at home, and wanted to check something out, navigating around the S3 was great. But the point of a smartwatch for me is to have quick, easy access to stuff on the go. The Huawei Watch has a touch to wake function that the S3 doesn't (I found myself missing that!), and lots of gestures to scroll thru stuff hands free, Google search as opposed to the dreadful Samsung version, loads more apps, easier dismissing of notifications. I do miss the form factor, and the integrated Samsung fitness stuff, but overall the switch was a bad one for me.

 

[daves221]

I went back to my Huawei Watch in the end.

It's been odd going back to a 'small' watch after a month, but, for all it's supposed failings, Android Wear is just more intuitive and easier to navigate.

Yeah, the rotating bezel was a nice touch, and, if I were sitting at home, and wanted to check something out, navigating around the S3 was great. But the point of a smartwatch for me is to have quick, easy access to stuff on the go. The Huawei Watch has a touch to wake function that the S3 doesn't (I found myself missing that!), and lots of gestures to scroll thru stuff hands free, Google search as opposed to the dreadful Samsung version, loads more apps, easier dismissing of notifications. I do miss the form factor, and the integrated Samsung fitness stuff, but overall the switch was a bad one for me.

Samsung pay?

 

[Stwutter]

Samsung pay?

Not sure it would have been a kicker anyway, but I'm in the UK, so it's irrelevant as it's yet to exist.

 

[keilflex]

Touch to wake I found out is a watch face thing. If you have the right watch face it works, if the watch face doesn't support it it won't. Like if you download the ,,eyeball watch face,,, just a big white eyeball looking at you slightly moving,, it has the touch to wake feature. And a few others I've noticed.