Galaxy Watch 4 Notifications - Showing Clock Over Notification

[lschoen]

9/14/21 Update: after reviewing the feedback of many others, intermittently blurring the screen is clearly an intentional software function that has existed since the GW3 (but curiously, not on the GWA2). I am hoping the following feature request makes it to Samsung: please remove this feature and allow us to protect our own privacy through use of a combination of existing features: AOD, lift to wake, wake on notification, and individual notification control. Comment below if you agree. Thank you!

Original post:

Hi all,

Received my GW4 last week and have been using it every day. Curious issue: sometimes (but not every time) when a notification is received, I look at the watch and it quickly blurs the notification and displays a generic, digital clock over the top. I have to hit a button to go back to the notification. There doesn't seem to be any discernible pattern to when this happens-- happens in any app, any time; even happens for one Whatsapp message, then not for another message immediately following. I even tried a factory reset and am still seeing the issue. Anyone else seeing this?

Settings: screen always on-YES, wake for notification-YES, lift to wake-NO, screen timeout-30.

[Thommy79]

Same problem Here! It drives me nuts...

[Benzfan33]

Turn off aod seems to eliminate the issue until a fix 

[Barba Ivan]

I hate that option too.

I love AOD and i love that the wach show the msg automaticly but i dont want to use rise to wake. I hope that they will remove that ugly popup clock

[LordK]

Also hate this feature, please remove it.

[Benzfan33]

Just turn off aod it works fine 

[LordK]

I like AOD, I hate this feature, so I dont want to turn off AOD

[nitram777]

I also want to use AOD and read Notifications more than few miliseconds.

And I don't want my screen to always go active on turning wrist as this consumes more power than only AOD.

Actually, notifications are useless for me (and many others with this setting). 

Please fix that, Samsung. Btw: No statement yet from any official? 

[Bandy_ta]

I also hate this! Please make it optional!!!

[Schteev99]

Jeez. It can't be turned off? What is the point of the watch? I bought this specifically to see notifications. Seriously.. I'll give it until the ne t update and if this is not fixed I'm moving to Apple. 

[socram]

Yes, same here. This is the worst bug being sold as a feature I discovered so far. Unfortunately, there is no information from Samsung until when (or if at all) this will be fixed. Obviously, Samsung doesn't care about it's customers at all and this will be the last Samsung watch I bought, sadly, because I really like the design of the watch.