Pixel 2 and Wearables

[Android Central Question]

My one and only issue I take with the pixel 2 is its notification system, or rather how it's being displayed on my wearable. It seems that the Pixel "reminds" you of all your other unread messages in its respective app (Whatsapp, Telegram, LINE) so that you don't miss out on any of them.

It seems like a great idea, until it starts spamming my smartwatch;

a simple example you had 3 active chats in WhatsApp, each with 3 unread messages; should I receive an additional message from whichever group, ideally the smartwatch would notify me of just this message.

Instead, what I get would be that message first, before a flood of "reminders" from the other unread/unacknowledged messages bury that new message. meaning I would get 10 notifications ( 3 + 3+ 3 old messages + 1 new message), compiling the number of notifications as it grows.

This issue gets pretty annoying when you're doing certain jobs and you need to be attentive to all groups (possibly because you're managing them) and you're waiting for a cue to be sent via the app.

I'm not really saying that Google is at fault, it might be because of the smartwatch I'm wearing (MyKronoz ZeTime), does anyone else is have this issue? I'm thinking about changing out my phone/wearable as a result.

 

[anon(79257)]

While I don't use Facebook or Whatsapp, I've never had this issue with my Pebble 2. It will send all notifications in order received and will have an indicator of how many total there are if there are previous notifications for the same person within the app (Telegram). I don't usually have multiple conversations going on, so I can't really help there. But I do occasionally have other outstanding notifications from other apps (yahoo mail, gmail, etc...) and I never get the behavior you describe.

Perhaps there is a setting in the watch's software (either on phone or in the watch) that pertains to reminders or frequency of notifications? Is there a setting in Whatsapp and the other apps for either of those? I can't find any setting in the OS for "reminders" behavior. There is a repeat notification option in Telegram, which I have switched off.

 

[hallux]

I see similar occurrences with my Huawei Watch. I saw it with my Nexus 6p before getting my Pixel 2 XL, and I'm seeing it with the Pixel now. My main culprit is my work email, using a sand-boxed Gmail app for work email, sometimes when I change the "read" status (or delete) of an email on my Outlook client on my PC, the watch goes crazy with reminders of some subset of messages in my inbox.