No audible sound for Text Messages

[Kay H.]

I tried eveything mentioned here to get the silent mode on text messages to turn off (or to get sounds to turn on) on my Pixel 7

What finally worked was to turn off "Spam protection" and "Background tasks" in the Messages (app) notifications.

 

[fotyc]

This started happening to me in the past few days - I have a Pixel 6 Pro and some generic watch whose app doesn't have any mute notification settings. I want audible notifications when wearing my watch but not when using earbuds and for months and months this worked fine and then it stopped. Does anyone know why this might have changed? Thanks!
It's clearly related to the watch as I still get audible notifications for the things that don't get pushed to my watch.