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Personally I find notifications on a watch to be exceptionally annoying so I almost always have my watch set to sleep mode. The only thing I use the watch for is to tell the time, track my sleep, heart rate, and steps. I'm not sure if sleep mode affects the accuracy of the tracking but it does make my battery life last for a good 2-3 days.
I'm in the same boat being extremely annoyed with notifications on the watch. But I just disabled them completely on my Garmin
There's a setting under Notifications & Alerts > Smart notifications > Status (switch to off). In the Garmin app
They are also a huge battery drain. I wish Garmin put the effort into their iOS app that they did with their Android so as to be able to filter notifications by app. Eg, I want iMessage notifications on my wrist, but I could care less about IG notifications, and I actively turn off bluetooth to save my battery life when my wife is forwarding me reel after reel...
i disable all notifications except texts from my spouse and phone calls (from anyone). that’s my suggestion, it’s good balance. :)