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.

[socram]

Thanks a lot for sharing this! It is quite pathetic that someone needs to create a free software because Samsung is incapable of doing so.

[Thommy79]

I know it's not a fix, but if you activate AOD and lift to wake, the clock will disappear as soon as you lift you wrist...

Better than nothing and solves the problem for me and the additional battery drain is not noticable!

[socram]

Have a look at SnowmanCD5's post. This is by far the best fix you can get.

[Barba Ivan]

Omg, this is the best solution so far. Is a shame for samsung and a wonderful thing for us users that exist someone who is willing and capable to solve this issue. 

Thanx SnowmanCD5's for sharing this.

One other question for those who have tested this app... I can't fond the option to extend the duration before the clock appears again?

[socram]

This has to be set in the phone app. Click the three dots on the upper right, then select "Keep awake". 

[Barba Ivan]

Maybe is my phone but i don't have that settings

 

[socram]

You installed the version from the play store which is the old one. Get the most recent version from the website as apk as described in the blog post. 

[B3rt]

Have same problem here.

I first installed it on my phone and watch from the google store, then i downloaded the app from website, removed it from my phone and installed the downloaded one again on my phone, so it has the latest version on my Phone.

I then used the 3 dots and activated keep awake and set it to 60 seconds, also enabled the rights to read messages.

When i receive a notification on my watch it still blurs after a few seconds, so it does not work for me or i miss something...

[Barba Ivan]

Try remove it from your watch then install it again. 

O be previse what i did: When i tried to download the phone app i have registered as a tester and downloaded it from google store, and i had the option to install it on my watch. Maybe there a mismatch if you use the old one.

But again i'm not the expert...

[B3rt]

i removed it and installed it again via the watch app store, but the version on the watch is still 2.08 on my phone it is 2.11

Hoe did you register your self as tester, i cannot find that option