Apple Watch complications not showing notifications

The Apple Watch complications included with the Pushover Watch app are designed to display data from our Glances API, not our general Messages API.

This separate API was created for a few reasons:

  1. Messages (notifications) are generally much longer than the amount of data that can fit in most Apple Watch complications which are limited to one or three short lines of text, or sometimes just a single number.
  2. Messages can be received at any rate, while Apple Watch complication updates are severely rate limited by watchOS.  Attempting to update a complication every time a notification was received may cause the Pushover application to exceed its complication "budget" on watchOS and stop updating.

To update text on a Watch complication, you will need to send a request to our Glances API endpoint or use a supported service such as IFTTT to make a Glances API request on your behalf.

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