Latency with communication especially message sounds from phone to watch at least

Not exactly sure when this behavior started but I can't understand why it's happening in the first place. If i'm watch TV, it makes sense a message coming in isn't going through my phone speaker with the audio of a show. My watch decides when it wants to ping and when it doesn't. Just now, my phone had an unread message. I wasn't doing anything so my text alert should've gone off. Is anyone experiencing anything like this and if so, has your Mac been effected? I'm running the latest on everything. Hope someone can make sense of this.