Youtube Music 'LINK' Download Apple Watch
Willa Stiff
From any screen in the Music app, tap in the top-right corner. If the watch face is showing, turn the Digital Crown up, then tap the currently playing song in the Smart Stack or tap at the top of the screen.
My apple watch 3 on 4.2.3 showed my AirPods as connected under general bluetooth settings but when I tried to play music from my apple watch an error kept appearing that apple watch could not connect to AirPods and asked if AirPods were out of range. The AirPods were definitely connected though as I could hear the start chimes on my running app.
This seemed to fix the problem, I tried various other things but the above was the only thing that seemed to work. Switching between iPhone and apple watch when using my AirPods now seems to work flawlessly.
Hey WDI, curious if your issue is the same as mine. - I hit play on my "synced" songs on my series 3 Apple Watch and the music starts for a few seconds and then stops. From there I hit play and the pause icon shows for a second as if the music is starting and then it goes back to play. The only temporary solution I have found is restarting the watch. It then works for that session but inevitably returns to not playing the next time I try to play music again. However if I play music from my phone it plays without stopping.-
I have looked for a solution but in typical Apple fashion, I find nothing. I guess I am just wondering if your issue is similar so I know: 1) I'm not doing something wrong. (I just recently got the watch and Airpods), and 2) There is no other solution at this time. Thanks for any light you can shed.
Another frustrating thing is Siri on the watch always plays Apple Music only, not iTunes Match music, and always from the iPhone when the phone is around, and often not close for a smooth experience.
Also, here is another example where the interaction between the watch, phone and AirPods is not smooth. If the phone is not a part of the equation, when answering or making calls on the watch with the AirPods the watch screen defaults to the phone app and the dial on the watch is volume for the phone call. This makes adjusting volume and controlling the phone call easy. However, when the phone is in the equation the call is always made or answered on the phone and the watch does not show the phone app. The call can only be controlled from the phone including volume so you have to go get the phone and use the phone to control the phone call and volume.
Again, all these problems seem to me being caused by Apple not figuring out how to make the watch 3 with cellular an independent device and still having a smooth interaction with the phone and throwing AirPods on top of all this makes it even more confusing.
Oh and one last thing. Here is an example of why I think the iPhone, Watch 3 with cellular and AirPods interaction is the problem to a lot of these glitches and annoyances. When I go running I never have my phone with me. As soon as I'm out of range of the phone all these glitches go away. Soon as I'm back around the phone they return. I'd say, some random percentage, I have a 95 percent smooth experience with the watch and AirPods when I'm away from my phone such as running.
I have this same issue and it's very frustrating because it is the use case I bought the Apple Watch for, for use in the gym. The only thing I've found that works is to turn off bluetooth on the Phone and then you can play the music stored on the Apple Watch through the AirPods, which isn't ideal because you might not get notifications.
I ended up wiping the watch and starting over. That worked for about 10 days. Now the pausing problem is back. It is only with music that is stored on the watch (which is the main point of having of these for your workout).
My wife and I both have iWatch 3 (mine with cellular, although not activated and her's without) Both watches are doing what is being discussed in this form. Honestly I'm quite unhappy as we bought watches and airpods so we could have phone free workouts at the gym. What we have found is we are ending up having no music workouts. Also - this dosen't bode well for upgrading from iPhone 6s to 10... At least with our iPhone 6s we can still go back to using headphones with a cord... COME ON APPLE - YOU SELL US ON YOUR PRODUCTS SEAMLESS INSTIGATION AND NOW MY OVER 1,000 DOLLARS WORTH OF PRODUCTS ARE USELESS FOR WHAT I PURCHASED THEM FOR.
Went to Best Buy today and talked with the Apple Rep. He had me turn off my phone and see if I could connect to the airpods via the watch and then access the music on my watch. This did work and seems to be working; Although not how these products are advertised to work it is a work-around at this time. He also suggested that we call Apple care and discuss this with them as they might have a solution he is not aware of. He also stated that was also a good way of logging the issue with Apple. Hope this gets fig out soon...
After a few months of frustration as all of you have experienced. I have had enough. I returned the watch (I had to explain that the watch doesn't work as advertised and showed them how the music doesn't play, even the music saved on the watch, wasn't streaming). I bought it for two reasons, running outdoor and music (Nike Run App ***** on the AppleWatch btw). I have visited the Genius Bar and they can't figure out why either. I have unpaired, reset, pair as new a few times with no luck of seamless operation. Shame, as it would be a great combo for outdoor running, AppleWatch, Apple Music, and Airpod. I am back to carrying my iPhone when I run. I am waiting for Series 4 and better OS. Hey Apple, it doesn't just work.
Exactly the issue I was having, and it turned out to be a network problem. The first clue came for me after switching out all of the hardware with the exception of the watch. I noticed the issue continued and occurred everyday around the same time (it worked fine until about 9-10am (high traffic times), and would continue to work intermittently until about 6-7pm. Called my carrier, and they confirmed this was a busy time in my area.
For option 1 - syncing music to Apple Watch you don't need an Apple Music subscription, but you do need to have added your music to iTunes. So to be clear you can get MP3 files from anywhere, including ripping them from a CD or downloading from other services or strange Russian websites (not recommended), then add them to your iTunes library using your PC/Mac and sync them to Apple Watch.
If you are an Apple Music subscriber then you get all 40+ million tracks available to you and certain mixes (such as the Favorites Mix or "Heavy Rotation") are automatically synced to Apple Watch without you doing anything (though you can turn them off in the Apple Watch app on iPhone in Music settings if you want). As with non Apple Music subscribers, you still need to add the music you want from Apple Music to your library, then you can sync them to Apple Watch.
Synced music on your Apple Watch is the most power efficient way of playing music but you do need some forethought unless you are happy with just the automatically added playlists. In reality I have added a few playlists and albums that I like and occasionally go in and add more, then forget about it. Things like "The A-List Blues" or "New Music" playlists are a dynamic ones from Apple so they change every week automatically, and when I am out running I get to hear new music without having to do anything - cool.
If you have an Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE, together with an Apple Music subscription then you can stream music directly from your watch, or play any Radio channel live directly from the watch. Battery life takes a hit for this though, so don't expect more than 90 minutes or so of constant streaming.
Oh sorry - you can either set a Workout Playlist in the settings for Workout in the Watch app on iPhone, and this will play automatically when you start the workout, or you can open the Music or Radio apps on the watch directly to play them, and then control them using the Now Playing screen which is also conveniently included in the Workout app (and many other apps).
Or you can use Siri via Airpods or the Watch directly, and ask her to play something for you. In my original Everything you need to know about running with Apple Watch post I was quite critical of using Siri, but I have to say in recent months it seems to have improved a little, and I find myself using Siri more often to control playback of music while running than before. The hope is that the new v2 Airpods coming out this year will improve things further.
This isn't the developers fault, it is the way Apple have implemented music playback on Apple Watch. I am really hoping that there is an announcement at WWDC 2018 in June that fixes this one and for all, and means I can add podcasts to the list of of things I want synced to Apple Watch along with my music playlists and albumns. Fingers Crossed.
However if you have a HomePod in your "pain cave" and want to control the music using Apple Watch while training on a turbo or treadmill perhaps this might come in handy. Of course you can also use Siri directly with HomePod but this post isn't about that, and sometimes I just get tired of talking.
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