{"id":426374,"date":"2026-01-22T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:29:10","slug":"galaxy-watch-do-not-disturb-shortcut-is-broken-samsung-confirms-fix-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426374\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Watch &#8216;Do Not Disturb&#8217; shortcut is broken, Samsung confirms fix is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/galaxy-watch-8-classic-23.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Practically every modern wearable wants you to keep it on 24\/7, in order to continue collecting data while you sleep. That makes Do Not Disturb modes vital, and unfortunately for Galaxy Watch users, a bug in One UI 8 is currently causing havoc with your go-to shortcut for pausing notifications.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/sammyguru.com\/samsung-confirms-galaxy-watch-do-not-disturb-issue-offers-workarounds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SammyGuru<\/a>, Galaxy Watch users that have paired their wearables with a Samsung device have noticed Do Not Disturb issues after updating their phone to One UI 8. Essentially, enabling DND from the watch\u2019s built-in shortcut is only capable of staying enabled for a few seconds before turning itself off. According to Samsung\u2019s official confirmation of this bug, it affects every Wear OS-based Galaxy Watch device, from the Galaxy Watch 4 up through last year\u2019s Galaxy Watch 8 series.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the good news: Not only is Samsung working on a fix, but Do Not Disturb still activates on both your watch and your phone as long as you activate it from your phone specifically. That\u2019s only a minor incontinence as you wait for a proper fix to roll out to your wearable, and it\u2019s not even the only workaround. You can still properly enable DND on the watch itself \u2014 you\u2019ll just need to head directly into settings rather than tapping a shortcut. As SamMobile points out, you\u2019ll find this under the Notifications section within your watch\u2019s preferences.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s no specific timeframe for when this update might roll out, <a href=\"https:\/\/r1.community.samsung.com\/t5\/%EC%86%90%EC%89%AC%EC%9A%B4-%ED%95%B4%EA%B2%B0-%EB%B0%A9%EB%B2%95\/%EA%B0%A4%EB%9F%AD%EC%8B%9C-%EC%9B%8C%EC%B9%98-4-5-6-7-8-%EC%8B%9C%EB%A6%AC%EC%A6%88-%EB%B0%A9%ED%95%B4-%EA%B8%88%EC%A7%80-%EC%84%A4%EC%A0%95%EC%9D%B4-%EC%A0%9C%EB%8C%80%EB%A1%9C-%EC%A0%81%EC%9A%A9%EB%90%98%EC%A7%80-%EC%95%8A%EC%8A%B5%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4\/ba-p\/36605549\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an acknowledgement from Samsung<\/a> certainly points to an expedited process. In the meantime, it might just take you a few extra seconds longer than usual to trigger DND as you\u2019re headed to bed.<\/p>\n<p>More on Samsung:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_669_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764374954_276_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/43RjEnY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-701536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769106550_421_iMazing_-WWDC25_9to5mac_750x150@2x-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"140\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Practically every modern wearable wants you to keep it on 24\/7, in order to continue collecting data while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-426374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}