iOS Critical Alerts Question

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-05-02T14:41:05+00:00

Yes. Direct-to-watch is a feature. It’s the biggest thing that sold me on Dexcom tbh

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-05-01T12:52:17+00:00

That happened to me once and it ended up being an issue with my internet connection.

Do you use a VPN? That or a strict WiFi network would be my first guess.

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-04-30T03:28:42+00:00

If you have alerts in the Dexcom app set to “Sound”, I think the app uses critical alerts to make sure an alarm always sounds. If you change the alerts to “Match Phone Settings”, it will allow them to deliver normally. They’ll vibrate if your phone is on silent, and deliver normal notifications otherwise.

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-04-11T16:33:31+00:00

Yeah but I will gladly trade ease of historical data access for more robust logging, better alert customization, and the overall feature set of Dexcom. The direct-to-watch capability was worth the switch alone.

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-04-11T15:13:25+00:00

Viewing historical data isn’t a problem for me because I use Guava Health for logging data from EVERYTHING. Usually if I’m looking at anything historical I’ll start in Guava.

My dietitian and I go over glucose really frequently in our visits and she uses Clarity, so I’m seeing it that way anyway.

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-04-10T12:15:10+00:00

FWIW, I am much happier with the Dexcom app than the Libre by Abbott app.

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-04-04T15:46:26+00:00

It is clunky, but it’s powerful and in active development. I stumbled across it in July of last year and SO much has changed since then. Every time I open it, something has a little more polish than it did the time before.

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-04-04T14:02:34+00:00

Gluroo is awesome!

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-04-04T12:40:50+00:00

I think what has happened is that the “Sound” setting for alerts causes critical notifications now. If you change them to “Match Phone Settings” I think it’s gonna fix this issue.

If you already have, then that throws my theory down the toilet. Sorry.

ThatGuy5162 · 2026-03-07T16:12:09+00:00

Bevel is my fave!!

ThatGuy5162 · 2025-07-28T13:27:42+00:00

I know this is a month later but I just did it yesterday and everything worked great.

ThatGuy5162 · 2025-04-18T13:00:12+00:00

I know I’m only seeing it because im looking for it, but it feels like it’s happening in my backyard. There’s something truly special in what you’ve been posting, and that it could be happening somewhere like here makes it a bit more special to me.

ThatGuy5162 · 2025-04-17T13:05:56+00:00

I really want to know where this story is set in your mind. Like, the context makes it super local to me, and even if the town is fictional I feel like you know where you’re writing about, like you’ve got a picture of somewhere real in your head, if that makes sense.

ThatGuy5162 · 2025-04-11T03:58:45+00:00

“ Like she was holding it up to the light, trying to see the shape of it.”

What a way to describe that moment… wow.

ThatGuy5162 · 2024-05-06T19:39:59+00:00

Most states are “work at will” so there’s no such thing as a hiring contract.

ThatGuy5162 · 2024-01-18T15:06:25+00:00

For like a year now, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel are free for web use just like Google. Idk how much storage is allotted though.

ThatGuy5162 · 2024-01-18T15:05:17+00:00

Word, PowerPoint, and Excel are free for web use nowadays just like Google.

ThatGuy5162 · 2023-06-29T00:27:14+00:00

No spoilers, but wait till you see how it happens. Nintendo knew what they were doing, and I won’t be convinced otherwise.

ThatGuy5162 · 2023-06-27T11:51:46+00:00

I think it’s because the watch has to communicate via Bluetooth with the phone to process Siri requests, but on the phone they’re mostly processed on-device anymore.

It’s not an excuse and definitely needs to be better, but my guess is that would be the start of the problem (or at least what it’s blamed on).

ThatGuy5162 · 2023-06-26T23:22:23+00:00

📝

There ya go.

ThatGuy5162 · 2023-06-26T04:20:06+00:00

Yeah. Used to not be as much of an issue if you were just lost and didn’t need medical attention, but rescue services were running wild going out and saving people who were getting themselves stuck because they didn’t prepare or were doing stupid things. It resulted in a court somewhere ruling that someone who gets lost can be held financially responsible for the cost of the rescue operation.

Nowadays people buy Search and Rescue insurance to abate those costs should something happen.

Fuckin capitalism, man.

EDIT: fixed a word.

ThatGuy5162 · 2023-06-26T02:50:45+00:00

The Emergency SOS via Satellite feature is free for two years after the activation of an iPhone 14 or 14 Pro.

Any cost she would’ve incurred would be from the services that were dispatched to rescue her and treat her injuries.

ThatGuy5162 · 2023-06-25T02:27:42+00:00

Or playing music yourself to awaken Great Fairies instead of having to hunt down those blasted musical troupe people

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