Audible - Finally

Agree, this is great news. I enjoy listening to audiobooks when I run and can now do so without carrying my phone. I tried the app out yesterday and seems pretty well done. I like how it shows the progress in transferring the audiobook to the watch, something you don't get when loading podcasts. I find it frustrating that to load podcasts you have to have it on the charger and it just seems to load whenever it feels like it, with no progress visible.

Only issue I have, and maybe I just haven't set it up right, is that that my progress in the book isn't retained when I transfer to the Apple Watch. For example, last night I transferred a book that I'm nearly done with on the iPhone to the Apple Watch. When I play it on the watch, it starts from the beginning.

I'll look into further to see if there's some sync setting that I'm missing.

 

Awesome news! So glad to see this is happening as I've been emailing them for a while about this feature. Thanks for letting us know!

 

Yup, I'm having the same experience. No sync between watch and phone.

 

I had to go to the audible app itself to update - it was not in my general app update list

 

The first time I synced an Audible book to my Watch, I had to manually find my place on the Watch. (Although admittedly that may be because I was so impatient to start using it.) However, since then--and I am on my third Audible book on my Watch, the Watch is always in sync with Audible on my iPhone.

I am thrilled to have this app on my Watch and to be able to listen to an audiobook without my phone.

 

I’m glad this app is there and works so well. I am on a trial run with it now and it works very well. Probably won’t keep the subscription as I think the service is overpriced for what you get.

I’m using Scribd and it offers me more for less money. Alas, there is no Watch app for it.