Question Google Messages keeps notifying me "Device pairing your messages are available on the device you paired."

[classact]

Google Messages keeps notifying me "Device pairing your messages are available on the device you paired."

I searched the web and saw plenty of suggestions on disabling notifications in various ways ("web" notifications, etc) but none of those work for me.

If I disable "web" notifications I no longer get the red star over the app title in the Windows Chrome browser tab where I have Messages opened. I rely on that to let me know I received a text when working on the computer. All other ways to disable notifications result in not knowing I received a text.

This is really annoying. It can occur many times per hour. Surely there must be a way to make it stop without disabling notifications that I do rely on.

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[spARTacus]

I also often get this notification, but I guess I'm not as annoyed about it as you are. Have you tried disabling notifications for "Background Tasks" or "Other", in the other category of notification settings for the Messages App?

 

[classact]

I don't know what version of Android others are using but I've dug through every possible area of notifications settings including for the Messages app and even the "web" notifications setting that's hard to find and, as I said, none of it helped other than things that end up disabling the notifications I do need.

This is a ridiculous bug if you ask me. And yes it's extremely annoying. I'm running three businesses and need notifications to be at least resonably efficient, and I would like the ability to disable useless ones let alone useless ones that seem to pop up as often as every five or ten mintues for half an hour or an hour at times like this one does for reasons I can't fathom.

There is probably no way to stop it. Hopefully they'll provide a way to control it in a subsequent OS update.

Meanwhile, I'd be thrilled if someone can help me find a way.

I should perhaps point out that I recently added a smartwatch to my phone's Bluetooth pairing. Oh, wait -- it didn't pair with normal Bluetooth pairing but rather some direct method with the Zepp app they had me download, then a QR code scan to link the watch and the phone.

I don't "think" this is what's causing the notification to keep popping up so much since it never was that much of an issue before but maybe the watch is reminding me of it often even though it's only there on the phone in the notifications section one time. Still, there has to be a way to stop it, and nothing about the watch seems to give me that kind of granular control over this one notification without disabling a lot of other notifications I do want to see.

It's an Amazfit Bip 6. Again, the phone is a Samsung S24 Ultra, running the most current Android version. On Verizon.

Thanks!

 

[classact]

It seems the notification appears on the phone's notifications tray every time I go to the Messages tab in my Chrome browser in my Windows computer -- which is darned often. There's no setting there that I can find that will enable me to stop this. The only option even close is "Get alerts for new messages" and obviously I need that on.

Kinda nuts getting a notification on the phone and thus also on the watch every time I go to the Messages tab in the browser. It's not like I've closed Messages and opened it again. I'm simply clicking to see the tab again.

Any idea how to go to a Chrome or Messages forum to ask for ideas and at least put in a request for an update?

 

[spARTacus]

I get the notification on the phone. I can understand the logic for why the notification exists - to let the phone owner know they have settings/services configured for messages from the phone being synced to another device or to web. The notification doesn't really bother me. For me, it's not really different than a standing notification to let me know when I have Do Not Disturb on. I don't get this specific notification propogated to my watch. However, my watch and phone are both Samsung and there is a companion Messages app on the watch, and the Wearable app is pretty good (on the phone) for fine tuning things between Phone and Watch. So, my arrangement might naturally work a bit better than yours. If constantly receiving this notification on the watch is what bothers you the most, then maybe there's some deeper settings between the phone and watch for your particular watch model that can help, for what phone notifications get propogated to the watch or not.

 

[classact]

Thanks. I have drilled into every conceivable nuance of available settings and messaged back and forth with Amazfit tech support and there is apparently just no solution. The notifications to the phone don't keep reminding me with alerts once it's already in the notifications area on the phone, BUT the pass-through notifications and resultant alerts on the watch are so frequent that it is indeed very annoying and distracting.

I love everything else about this watch and it seems very highly rated for the price point (second only to Apple , which of course I can't use on Android, and also second only to Samsung Galaxy Watch).

I would have gone for a Samsung Watch 7 but the round form factor seems extremely contrary to my primary purpose which is reading messages as they come in. The Amazfit is rectangular and is great for messages.

I have zero interest in the health and fitness aspects of any of these devices, only messages and other basic, common functionality.

For this one reason alone, though -- these persistent Device Pairing notifications/alterts -- I may try the Samsung.

Any thoughts on the degree of compromise with the round form factor for reading messages on the watch?

I run a couple of businesses and do various Chinese-arts types of workouts regularly, so the watch showing me the messges as they come in really is an important tool for efficiency.

I have a round Garmin fenix 3 and the messages display is minimal compared to the rectangular Amazfit.

What do you think? Live with the Device Pairing annoyance, or try the Samsung 7 and hope messages are okay?

 

[classact]

Looks like next Samsung watch releases will be late July or early August so I guess I'll wait and try one of those.

 

[spARTacus]

I don't heavily use my watch for productivity. However, I hadn't even thought about the round form factor for it before, in terms of perhaps not as ideal as a rectangular watch for reading more of complete message lines at a time. Hopefully, someone that uses their watch way more than I will chime in with some opinions. Or, maybe it goes to show it doesn't make a big difference.