Watch Connected for Calls only

[Squiddie]

I've had my Watch5 for some time now and under my Bluetooth settings it said, 'Connected for Calls, Notifications.' Ever since this update, it strictly says, 'Connected for calls.' I can't reply to messages or texts from the watch, which is mildly frustrating considering I use my watch in place of when I can't be on my phone. I've factory reset my watch a handful of times now, unpaired, repaired, deleted cache, etc. You name it, I've probably done it. Am I missing anything? Any way to fix this? Is this because of the update? Help ☹️

[Derpturtle]

Same issue here. I started noticing this last week with a Galaxy S23 ultra and a galaxy watch 5 pro. 

[Carrie261]

Same thing just happened to me today. Was there a software update that may have caused this? I even reset my watch ..at first I was able to sync with my phone but it totally disconnected from bluetooth about an hour later. 

[Derpturtle]

Today the notifications started working again for me all of a sudden.

The Bluetooth section still does read connected for calls only. 

[frank_1919]

same here. i bought the galaxy watch 7 because i thought i'm having an issue with my galaxy watch 5. 

[frank_1919]

Good day, 

My Galaxy Watch 5 is only connected for Calls. Every time i reply to messenger it will send but when i check on my phone it wasnt even sent. I've just bought a new Galaxy Watch 7 thinking it would fix the issue, but still the same. has anyone here manage to fix this issue? i havent found anything that fixed this issue. 

[realaud]

It's not the watch. You have to uninstall facebook messenger from the phone and install an older version. Something in a recent messenger update removed the ability to respond to FB messenger messages from the watch and Meta has not seen fit to fix it despite complaints. You need version 485.0.0.58.111 which you can get from apk mirror. You have to turn off auto update both in the play store and in the app settings. There is a previous thread about this.

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-Watch/Unable-to-reply-to-Facebook-messenger-notifications...