This "now playing" red button... How do I get rid?

I actually really like this addition into Watch OS, however I completely get what you are saying.

I don't know of any way to completely remove it but it only happens when music is playing. In other words even if the song is "paused" it shouldn't be up there.

 

I’m having the same issue. I hope it’s a bug and will go away. I had the green call notification on my watch earlier for like 10 minutes after I hung up. Made me second guess whether I hung up or not.

 

What is the point of it anyway? The music is playing on my phone, not the watch, and I know it's playing because I can hear it.

 

I find it annoying and pointless

 

It also happens when watching videos.

 

I find it annoying too, but I have disabled the automatically launch music app function so it is necessary for me to call out the music control. I just think that if it is not red it would be much better.

 

Had the same problem, this solution worked for me, too.

 

No good alas if Carplay decided to turn on music automatically (seems no way to stop it) as it then triggers it on the watch.

 

Pause music on watch before turning off headphones. If you fail to do this you can turn watch off and back on and it removes Now Playing.....

 

I have never seen this now playing icon. I play music on my watch from my phone and use my AirPods. When I finish playing music, I stop it via the watch and remove my AirPods.