Android 15 – ‘Sensitive notification content hidden’

A while ago my Google Pixel 8 Pro is updated to Android 15. But after doing so I suddenly got messages on my smartwatch with the message: ‘Sensitive notification content hidden’.
This occurred when getting SMS or Mail messages (somehow Whatsapp mostly worked).

After googling around the internet I found the solution that worked for me.

One first thing you could try is change some settings in your phone:

1. Disable Enhanced Notifications:
2. Go to your phone’s Settings
3. Navigate to Notifications
4. Turn off the “Enhanced notifications” option

For me this did not work, but luckily I am a developer and have the ADB installed. This can be used to debug Android devices, but also for changing settings for apps using de adb command.

Step 1: Set up your computer

1. Install ADB:
   • If you don’t already have ADB installed, download it from the Android Developer website.
   • Alternatively, you can install ADB using a package manager:
     • Windows: Install the platform-tools or use Chocolatey:
       choco install adb
     • Mac: Use Homebrew:
       brew install android-platform-tools
     • Linux: Use your distribution’s package manager. For Ubuntu:
       sudo apt update && sudo apt install adb
2. Add ADB to your system path:
   • Make sure the platform-tools directory is in your PATH so you can use the adb command globally.

Step 2: Prepare your Android phone

1. Enable Developer Options:
   • Go to Settings > About Phone.
   • Tap Build number 7 times until it says “You are now a developer.”
2. Enable USB Debugging:
   • Go to Settings > System > Developer options (or just “Developer options” depending on your phone).
   • Enable USB Debugging.

Step 3: Connect your Android phone (using USB)

1. List connected devices:
   adb devices -l
   This command shows a list of the devices connected using USB.
   ex:
   3B181XYZJG005DA device usb:1-1 product:husky model:Pixel_8_Pro device:husky transport_id:75
2. Check installed packages on phone
   adb shell pm list packages
   This will return a list with packages installed like:
   ....
package:com.paypal.android.p2pmobile
package:com.android.systemui.auto_generated_rro_product__
package:com.adobe.scan.android
package:com.huawei.health
package:com.android.providers.partnerbookmarks
package:com.google.pixel.camera.services
package:com.google.ambient.streaming
....
3. Run a command to enable receiving sensitve notifications
   adb shell appops set com.huawei.health RECEIVE_SENSITIVE_NOTIFICATIONS allow
4. Reboot the phone
   After running the command you should reboot the phone and you should be able to receive
   messages again on you watch when you phone is locked.
   
   
5. [Optional] Verify whether the settings is set correctly
   adb shell appops get com.huawei.health
   This will return all the settings for the com.huaweu.health app.
   You should see the setting to be set to allow.