Suddenly getting delay between lifting wrist and notification popping up on Apple Watch

Hi!

Going through the support page wouldn't allow me to utilize chat support and I cannot call right now, so I'll try this instead.

I just got an Apple Watch 9 (41mm) in April, so it's a little over 2 months old now. This is my first time ever having a Smartwatch, so I'm new to it all but I just recently noticed a change on my device that is seriously bugging me. The watch is up-to-date, as far as the software goes.

So normally, I could feel the vibration of an incoming notification on my wrist, lift my wrist up and the notification would come up on the display almost immediately, I never had to wait to see a notification. Within the last week or two, I've noticed that there is a pretty solid delay in the notifications becoming visible on the display. I'll feel it vibrate, lift my wrist and then the notification won't pop up for a few seconds. While I realize it's not a SUPER long delay, it's long enough that I have obviously noticed a difference in response time and I was missing notifications for the first few days because I thought they just weren't popping up on the screen at all and I'd put my wrist back down before they were popping up. The watch IS recognizing the motion of me lifting my wrist: just now, when lifting my wrist without a notification active/waiting, the display immediately lit up and the clock/battery icons both expanded. So it's obviously recognizing that my wrist is lifted, but the notifications themselves are delayed in coming up on the display.

I have not been able to find this complaint anywhere; I checked the Apple Community, Reddit, Google, etc and I cannot find THIS particular issue. And again, the Apple site wouldn't let me get support via chat so I'm trying here. Does anyone have any suggestions, advice, etc?

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