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Welcome. In front of me I have Garmin for a runner 55 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 phone on the watch
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Before we start, if you want to receive the notifications on your watch, your watch needs to be paired with a phone via the Garmin Connect application
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Once the devices are paired, we can continue. and now we need to make sure that the required permissions are allowed for the Garmin Connect application
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to send the notifications to our watch. So to do it, find the Garmin Connect icon
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present hold on it to open the menu, then tap on the app info
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and here select the option called permissions. And now we need to make sure that the required permissions are enabled
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So we need to enable the call log, phone, and SMS if you want to receive the notifications about the calls and SMSes
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So if you want to use those notifications, tap on call logs, allow it, go back, tap on phone
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allow it, go back, tap on SMS, allow it and go back
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Also contacts, allow it and go back. Okay, if you want to receive the notifications about the calendar events, for example
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We need to allow the calendar permission. And once you enable or allow the permissions
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which is calendar, call, logs, contacts, phone and SMS. You can close this page
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And now we need to make sure that the notification access is enabled for the Garmin Connect application So let open the settings on our phone Settings
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In settings, tap on apps and notifications. Then tap on Advanced. Scroll down, tap on special app access
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And here find the option called Notification Access. On this page, find the Garmin Connect on the list
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Tap on it. tap on the switch, tap on allow, and once it says allowed
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right here, we can close the settings. And now we can open the Garmin
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Connect application on our phone. In the application, we can tap on the menu
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scroll down, tap on Garmin devices, tap on the Forerunner 55. Here we can tap on sounds and alerts
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Then tap on smart notifications and here we can customize the notification settings
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Let's tap on general use first. And here we can stop on show and we can select calls and text only, calls only or off
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If you select calls and texts only, it will only show the notifications about the calls and texts
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If you select the calls only, it will only show the notifications about calls
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And if you select off, it will disable them. you select all, you will receive the notifications from the calls, texts and applications
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Okay. Next we have privacy option and here we can select press start and gesture
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Honestly, I'm not sure what it does, but I believe you will need to perform the action to see the notification
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So for example press the start button or gesture the use the wrist gesture to display them And next we have alert and here we can select tones vibration and tones and vibration
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If you select tones, you will hear the beep when the notifications arrive
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If you select vibration, the watch will vibrate. And if you select both, the both things will happen
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And if you select none, nothing will happen. Basically, you will only see the pop-up on the screen
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Select the one you like, like this. and then go back to the smart notifications menu
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And here we have the during an activity. So basically, if you select the general use
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you customize the notification settings for your watch when you're not tracking the activity
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So when you're not running, cycling and stuff like that. And during activity allows you to customize the notification settings
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for that specific moment when you're tracking your activity, like running and cycling and stuff like that
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So tap here, tap on show, select one of the options, alert
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select one of the options and then go back and at this point we should be able to
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receive the notifications on our watch so I'm going to send myself a message on Discord okay
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we should be able to receive the notification let me reopen the Discord
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close it Okay, I think I know what's the problem
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Okay, let's try now. No. Weird. We can try another thing. another thing we can basically try to
