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Hello, in front of me I have Garmin Forerunner 645 and I'm gonna show you how to enable the
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phone notifications for this watch on the Android phone. 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 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
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permissions are allowed for the Garmin Connect application to send the notifications to our watch
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We can do it by finding the Garmin Connect application icon on our phone, pressing and
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holding on it to open this menu and we can tap on app info and here we can select permissions
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Now we need to allow certain permissions. As you can see we have allowed list and not allowed and we need to allow the call log
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contacts, phone and SMS. We can also allow the calendar if you want to
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So let's allow the permissions by tapping on permission, tapping on allow, going back
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again tap on permission, tap on allow, go back. Okay, and once you're done allowing the permissions remember call logs, contacts, phone, SMS
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Okay, once you're done you can close this menu. Now let's open the settings on our phone
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In settings we need to find the notification access. You can tap on the apps and notifications, then tap on advanced, tap on special access
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and tap on notification access. And in this menu you should see the list of applications
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Find the Garmin Connect, tap on it, tap on the switch, then tap on allow and it should
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be enabled. And once it says allowed you can go back to settings
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If you're using the newer version of Android, I believe 12, if you can't find the notification
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access, simply tap on search and type in notification access. It should redirect you to it
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Okay, once you're done and with the notification access and permissions we can open the Garmin
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Connect application on our phone that is paired with our watch. In the app we can tap on menu icon, scroll down, tap on Garmin devices, tap on R4 Eraner
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645 and here tap on the sounds and alerts, then tap on smart notifications
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And here we can customize the settings for the notifications. We can enable or disable the notifications during the activity or not during activity
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by tapping on the switches. We can also tap on show option to customize which notifications or which type of notifications
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is going to be displayed. And you have all notifications, calls only and texts only
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And alert, we have vibration and tones. So tones, so only the sound, tones and vibration, so both and vibration only
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And we can select the best option for our preferences basically. So customize this
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And you can also tap on privacy option and here you can select the action gesture or off
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I believe it's if you want to see the notifications and you have the action option selected, you
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need to press some kind of button to see them and gesture, you will need to perform some
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gesture to see the notifications. Okay, and once you're done customizing your notifications and they're enabled, you should
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be able to receive notifications on your watch. We could try to install the fake notification app
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So let's try. Okay, let's install it
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Open it. And this app allows basically to generate fake notifications. So we can add the notification
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Priority high. Let's change the icon. Okay. And tap the checkmark
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So we have the notification right here and we can tap to generate it
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It should be generating notifications. Oh, it did. As you can see, it appeared on our watch
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So it's working. Okay. So that's how you enable the F4 notifications for this watch on the Android phone
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