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Can't sync music, stuck on pending
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Allow for any music in the cloud to first be downloaded to your iPhone, before it then transfers to the watch....
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I'm having the same issue. The weird Thing is it's only one playlist. I created a new playlist (of existing songs) for use at the gym. Everything is downloaded but I always get "sync pending" when trying to sync to the watch. I have tried ton of other playlists and all sync fine and super quickly. I've tried creating a new playlist right on my phone.
I thought maybe a song was corrupt (even though each plays fine on my phone) so I tried adding one song at a time with no luck.
I've even tried syncing a playlist, making sure it went through to the watch properly, then going back and copying the songs I want to that playlist and then I get the error.
I'm stumped.
Guess the Genius Bar
Cheers
J
I'm having the same issue. The weird Thing is it's only one playlist. I created a new playlist (of existing songs) for use at the gym. Everything is downloaded but I always get "sync pending" when trying to sync to the watch. I have tried ton of other playlists and all sync fine and super quickly. I've tried creating a new playlist right on my phone.
I thought maybe a song was corrupt (even though each plays fine on my phone) so I tried adding one song at a time with no luck.
I've even tried syncing a playlist, making sure it went through to the watch properly, then going back and copying the songs I want to that playlist and then I get the error.
I'm stumped.
Guess the Genius Bar
Cheers
J
Well that's not the case really. Because I can sync any other playlist without a problem. Just this one. :-(
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And I'm not sure where you are getting that from because I don't see it in the graphic you posted. Is there somewhere else I should look?
Cheers
J
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And I'm not sure where you are getting that from because I don't see it in the graphic you posted. Is there somewhere else I should look?
Cheers
J
Yup, see the second paragraph. I fully admit that mastering this little guy requires a will that I haven't needed since I got my first Mac.
I was also momentarily confused by this when I tried syncing but sure enough it worked when I plugged the watch in.
I had trouble, too. My problem turned out to be that I was trying to sync a playlist larger than 1 gig. A gig is the most music you can hold in an Apple Watch. Also, it's not easy to find out how much data is contained in your playlist, but start by considering that.
So, you might want to try to sync a shorter playlist which you know is less than a gig. If that works, that was your problem.
So, you might want to try to sync a shorter playlist which you know is less than a gig. If that works, that was your problem.
I'm having this issue, and have it set to 2GB, and my watch charging all night, and just trying to sync one playlist that is less than 2GB. I did a soft reset on the phone, and that didn't help. It just says 99%, then goes back to sync pending, although the watch shows that it's charging.
The simplest of tasks make my life so difficult. But thank you so much. this helped a lot.
this is what worked for me after having had both watch and iPhone charging and not seeing sync pending ever go to > syncing. Forced quit and it was at 3% when I relaunched the app.
Thank you, that was what worked for me, I had the iwatch on 50% and even more but didn't started to synchronise until you connect it to power
They need to come up with a way to transfer over bluetooth or allow the watch to download via wifi / cellular to the cloud. I also was disappointed that I couldn't play other radio apps over cellular on my AW3 and they had to be connected to my phone. The more I can not rely on my phone, the better and more awesome this watch can be.