Buzz style on the watch
Choose how your watch buzzes when a talk starts and stops: Light, Medium, Strong, Heartbeat or Like my watch.
Your watch buzzes when a talk starts and stops, for the Raise ready tick and for the KeyUp Talk shortcut. Buzz style sets how it feels.
Buzz style
Buzz style sets how your watch buzzes when a talk starts and stops, for the Raise ready tick and for the KeyUp Talk shortcut. It starts on Strong buzz, so nothing feels different until you change it. It never changes the call for help, calls or warnings, which always buzz at full strength. Talk vibration must be on.
Watch
- Swipe up, tap Settings › Sounds and vibration › Advanced. Buzz style is next to Talk vibration: a tap picks the next one (Light buzz, Medium buzz, Strong buzz, Heartbeat, Like my watch) and buzzes once so you can feel it.
- Light buzz, Medium buzz, Strong buzz: how hard the watch buzzes. A watch whose motor cannot change strength makes the buzz shorter instead.
- Heartbeat: each buzz becomes two quick soft pulses, like a heartbeat. One heartbeat means you are live, two mean your mic is off, as with the other styles. The short ready tick stays a tick, and the long “can’t talk now” buzz stays one long soft buzz.
- Like my watch: KeyUp plays its buzzes as a notification vibration, so your watch’s own notification vibration settings apply. KeyUp keeps its rhythm (1 buzz when you are live, 2 when your mic turns off), because Android does not let apps play the pattern you picked for your watch’s notifications.
- Like my watch on a Galaxy watch: the Notification vibration strength you set on the watch applies (Settings › Sounds and vibration on the watch). The Vibration pattern you picked there (for example Short and light or Heartbeat) cannot be used by apps, so KeyUp keeps its own rhythm. If you want a heartbeat feel, pick Heartbeat in KeyUp.
- Like my watch on a Pixel Watch: the watch’s notification vibration setting applies (Settings › Vibration on the watch, where your watch has it).
- Like my watch on any watch: when the watch is on Mute, when its notification vibration is off, or in some power saving modes, the talk buzzes are off too, just like your notifications. Pick a strength (Light, Medium or Strong) if you always want to feel them.
Phone
Buzz style is set on the watch only. The phone’s You › Talk › On my watch has More on your watch.
Web app and iPhone
Not in the web app or the iPhone app.
Still stuck? Email [email protected]. Tell us your phone and watch model and what you tried.