If your Apple Watch is not delivering audible notification alerts as expected, then the following steps may help:
If you have not yet done so, update your iPhone and Apple Watch to the latest software, starting with your iPhone:
3) Mute iphone, and then call iphone from different number. Watch should chime/beep, which helps locate.
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4 pointsFeb 28, 2017 8:37 PM in response to Briansyddall
Actually all you gotte do is go to find my phone app and play a lost sound on it and just look for the sound I just did it and I fond mine
If you are on your own iPhone and try to play a sound for your iPhone in Find My, it will not play a sound, at first. You will get a vibration warning, then the sound should start after that. My sound appeared after the vibration and the receipt of the email saying that Find My played a sound on my iPhone.
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4 pointsFeb 2, 2022 10:23 AM in response to ChrisJ4203
I did get vibrating and did not hear a sound even though it said it was playing one. Any other suggestions?
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229,045 pointsFeb 2, 2022 10:37 AM in response to Jarynsmom
So you did not receive the vibration or the sound? Are you signed in with the same Apple ID? Try going to www.icloud.com/find, then log in with your Apple ID and attempt to play a sound there.
I’ve been trying so hard to find my Apple Watch which I seem to have misplaced, I remember bringing it into my house which is a start but when trying to find the exact location, are use the play sound function on the find my iPhone app to hear it play a sound. The watch when I last had it was on silent I believe so I turned that off in the app on my phone and turned off the haptics and notification noise. The watch is still not playing sound, the find my iPhone function is not working. Is this a fault in my watch or is a problem people seem to have?
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Apple Watch Series 4
Posted on Jan 31, 2022 6:20 PM
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I misplaced my watch and tried to use my “find my” app from my iPhone to locate it. It said it was playing sound and I got email confirmation every time it “played” but there was no sound. I eventually found it and although all other sounds and notifications work I hear nothing when I try to ping my watch from the find my app. I’ve seen this question asked on here before but there wasn’t a solution yet. Any ideas now? If it matters my watch is a series 3.
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Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 7
Posted on May 11, 2021 8:27 PM
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Now from the list of your Apple devices tap on the Apple Watch you want to play sound on.The Watch should appear on a map along with other Apple devices owned by you.Tap on the Watch icon.
Finally from the menu tap on the ‘Play Sound’ button.This should start playing a pinging sound on your Apple Watch, which would help you in finding where it is.
Hello, my watch is not on mute, the sound is rather loud when a phone call or message comes in. But when I use the "Find my" app, select the watch and click "play sound", it shows as "now playing" in the app, but the watch remains silent. I've seen others describe this problem but I have not seen a usable solution. All the sound settings on the watch are on.
I'd also like to know if it's possible to play the "Find my" sound when the watch is on mute, because I probably won't remember to unmute it before I misplace it. I don't want my watch to make any noise, only when I want to locate it with the "Find my" app.
Suggestions welcome.
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Apple Watch, watchOS 4
Posted on Oct 18, 2021 1:03 PM
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Oct 18, 2021 1:51 PM in response to teylyn
The sound should play regardless of whether or not the watch is muted.
The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:
How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Restart your iPhone - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.