Difference between notication on phone and on watch

App version: 3.8.0

Android version: 16, no custom rom

Device model: Pixel 9

Expected behaviour: Notification on phone and notification on watch show the same text or at least the same, correct podcast name.

Current behaviour:


The screenshot shows the notification on the phone. It tells me that “Streitkräfte und Strategien” has a new episode (correct).
The picture of my watch/fitness band shows a different text and also mentions another podcast name (11KM) which doesn’t have a new episode.
The band is a Mi Band 6 and the notifications get forwarded by the 3rd party app “Notify for Mi Band”.
The notification on the Band was always different from the one on the phone but it contained the correct podcast name
For other apps I get the same text on the watch and on the phone.

First occurred: a couple of weeks ago

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Activate notifications about new episodes for a podcast.
  2. Wait for such a notification
  3. Look at your watch and compare to phone.

Environment: i didn’t change anything but I think AntennaPod got an update arouns the time it started to occur.
“Unusual” devices you use: I use the Mi Band 6 not with the stock app but with a 3rd party app “Notify for Mi Band”.
The notification on the Band was always different from the one on the phone but it contained the correct podcast name

The one on your watch is the one that gets shown when still looking for new episodes, without one having been found yet. Looks like your watch gets that one and then doesn’t update it to the actual notification (even though it is actually a different, independent notification). As a workaround, you can try disabling the “updating” notification from Android’s notification settings screen. Alternatively, maybe you can configure the third party app to ignore the first notification

Yes, seems like it. This notification is only shown on the watch when there really is a new episode not when it is only refreshing.
I have to investigate further.

I was able to fix the problem with the refreshing notification in the 3rd party app, thank you

Now it’s like it was before. Still a difference between watch and phone but it doesn’t bother me much. I don’t know if it’s a bug or a feature.


Ah, that’s the “grouped” notification that you also get if you collapse the one on the phone

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