Apple Watch Music Playback Stutter

[HeathH]

I’m having an odd issue on a Series 5 with cellular activated causing music playback to stutter or be intermittent. The odd thing is all the music has been downloaded to the watch (I have had a S0, S4 and S5 so very familiar with the software) and putting in Airplane mode or turning off WiFi and cellular fixes the playback issue.

It’s like it is trying to stream the music even though it was all copied to the watch. As soon as you put cellular back on starts stuttering again.

 

[mk313]

I have the same issue (although not Apple Music, I use iTunes Match). It only happens for the first song for me though and then it’s usually good for the rest of my run but yah, weird because all of the music is stored in the watch but it does act like it a trying to download it over lte.

 

[HeathH]

Ok. Well at least I’m not alone. It’s actually my wife’s and she comes back from a run complaining at me about it!

 

[Apple_Robert]

Make sure to file a bug report with Apple.