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Welcome. In front of me, I have Garmin Instinct 2S
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and I'm going to show you how to enable the phone notifications for this watch on the Android phone
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Basically, if you want to receive the notifications from your Android phone on your watch
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Before we start, if you want to receive the notifications from your phone on your watch
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your watch needs to be paired with your phone via the Garmin Connect application. Once the devices are paired together, we can contact
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And now we need to make sure that the required permissions are allowed for the Garmin Connect application to send the notifications to your watch
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So, find the Garmin Connect application icon. It can be on the home screen or in the app menu
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So find the icon and press and hold on it. And once you see this pop-up, tap on the app info
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Here tap on permissions and make sure to allow the permission for the SMS, phone
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call logs and that's about it you can also enable contacts once
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if you want to so to allow the permission simply scroll down find the not allowed
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category tap on the permission you want to allow, tap on allow and then go back
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and it going to jump up to the allowed category so once you allow the call logs contacts phone SMS and I believe that about it
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you can close this menu. Now you can open the settings on your phone
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In settings, we need to find the notification access. The easy way is to tap on search and type in notification
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Oh, my bad. Notification access
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and then tap on search and it should show you the notification access
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and you can tap on it. You can also simply look for the notification option
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notifications rather, and then select notification access. Find the notification access menu
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and once you find it, make sure that the connect app is allowed
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To do it, tap on the Connect app and make sure that the button next to the app
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is enabled. So tap on it, tap on Allow. And once the button
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is enabled, you can close the settings. And now we can open the Garmin Connect application
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on the phone. Tap on the menu icon to open the menu
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Scroll down, tap on Garmin devices. And here we can select our Instinct 2S
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from the list of devices. On this page scroll down find the notifications and Alerts option and select it And then tap on smart notifications And here we have couple options We have general use during activity and signature
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Tap on general use first. Right here we can turn on and off and customize the notifications for the general use of your watch
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So when you're not tracking activity on your watch. And we can turn them on or off
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Once you turn them on, you can tap on calls. and here you can enable or disable the status
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so if you don't want to receive the notifications about calls you can disable them or you can enable them if you want to see them
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and you can also enable the tone and vibration so basically sound and vibration for the notifications
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and you can do it for different notifications types so we have calls text apps so let's customize the texts
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like that and then the apps like this and once you're done
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with the types of notifications you can tap on privacy and here you can select one of the options
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we have press a GPS button or risk gesture or off and then we have the
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timeout option so basically how long the notification will stay on the screen until it disappears and you can type on
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timeout and select one of the options okay next we have the during activity so when you tracking activity on your watch and again you can turn them on or off You can turn on or off specific types of notifications
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or enable or disable these sounds or vibrations for them. So customize this to your liking
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And once you're done, you should be able to receive them
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So let's say I'm done. I can close the app now and let's say I'm going to receive the message for example from Discord
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so I'm going to send myself a message on Discord. Give me second. As you can see we got the notification on our phone and also on our watch
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And we can dismiss it, we can mark it as red. We can reply, you can block the app if you want to, and stuff like that
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Okay. And that's how you enable the phone notifications for this watch on the Android phone
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