Gear S3 intercepts outgoing Whatsapp voice calls from Note10+

[HairyScot]

Hi,

I have my Gear S3 (SM-R760) connected via Bluetooth with my Note10+ (SM-N9750).
Everything works fine apart from one annoying issue.

When I initiate an audio call with Whatsapp on the Note10+ the watch gets control of the call.
I cannot find any setting that might deal with this.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can prevent this?

[inspired_chef1975]

You should try to disable Bluetooth that connect to watch then phone will be directly to your phone. Hope make sense

[HairyScot]

Found the setting in the Wearables app under notifications:-

I had "Show while using phone" turned on.

[inspired_chef1975]

Try turning off incoming call under notifications. Try to go to phone BT setting and there next to the Gear S3 an option to turn off voice and contact sharing. When I turned off voice over Gear S3 the watch ceased to ring. Hope it help.

[HairyScot]

Thanks for your inputs.

[inspired_chef1975]

That is wonderful new.