iOS Notification Forwarding comes to Amazfit watches in the EU

Amazfit Balance 3, Balance Ultra and Cheetah 2 Ultra now support iOS Notification Forwarding in the EU. That means iPhone notifications can do more than appear on the watch, users can act on supported alerts from the wrist.

Why this changed

This follows Apple’s EU interoperability changes under the Digital Markets Act. Apple added a Notification Forwarding setting in iOS 26.3 under Settings > Notifications, then iOS 26.5 became the wider EU rollout point for third-party wearable features.

The idea is simple. Compatible non-Apple watches can receive iPhone notifications in a richer way, while the watch maker still needs to enable support through its own app and firmware.

What changes on the watch

So what is actually changing? Notifications on Amazfit Balance 3, Balance Ultra and Cheetah 2 Ultra no longer need to behave like copied phone alerts. They can now become something users deal with from the watch.

On supported notifications, users can reply, dismiss or trigger the available action without pulling out the iPhone. The exact options depend on the app and notification type, but this is the important shift. The watch now has a route to interaction, not just mirroring.

That includes actions such as replying to an iMessage, accepting or declining a call, silencing a call or interacting with a third-party app notification from the wrist where supported. Users can also disable notification forwarding for individual apps, which is useful if they do not want certain alerts appearing on another device. Amazfit users should also see more complete notification content on the watch, rather than the more limited alert mirroring they had before.

This fixes one of the more obvious weak spots for Amazfit users on iPhone. Fitness tracking, health metrics and battery life already worked well, but notifications often felt like a one-way feed.

Apple Watch still has deeper iPhone integration. But this removes a real daily annoyance for Amazfit users on iOS.

What about other Amazfit watches

The next question is which other Amazfit watches get the same iPhone notification support. The likely answer is models on the latest Amazfit software track.

That points to Balance Ultra, Bip Max, Balance 2, T-Rex Ultra 2, T-Rex 3 Pro, T-Rex 3, Cheetah 2 Pro, Active 3 Premium and Active Max. These are the watches already on the Zepp OS 6 rollout schedule, so they are the obvious group to watch for the same iPhone notification upgrade.

The logic is simple. Apple has opened the iOS side in the EU, while Zepp Health still needs to support the feature through the Zepp Health app and watch firmware. Watches on the latest software track give Zepp Health the cleanest path to do that.

For iPhone users, this makes the current Amazfit rollout more useful than it first looked. The headline additions are training tools, recovery context and interface changes, but better notification actions may end up being an upgrade people notice more.