My carrier finally enabled my Apple Watch to turn on cellular after over a year. I’m trying to use the Music app during my workouts (leaving my iPhone phone behind), but I’m really annoyed that if I play any album, it plays the song I started with, ends, and doesn’t progress to the next song. I have to click on the skip next button. I even erased my Apple Watch Ultra 1, restored it like new, but the problem still persists. Can anyone help me figure out what’s causing this? It’s driving me crazy and pretty much nullifies the only reason I need cellular data.
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WatchOS26 Music App is driving crazy
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Did you find a fix? Mine isn’t connected to cellular but has the same behavior with playlists downloaded to the watch.
My Apple Music has been basically unusable lately. I’ve always had cellular on my Apple Watch and have been able to stream music without my phone just fine. But for the past 2–3 weeks, it’s stopped working.
When I try to play a song, it just spins and never starts — then eventually the app just crashes. I’ve tried everything: my phone is off, Wi-Fi is off on the watch, and it has a solid LTE signal. I know data is working because Audible streams without any issues.
I haven’t changed anything on my end, but suddenly Apple Music just won’t work. And even if I somehow get a song or playlist to start, it usually crashes after one or two tracks. Super frustrating!
When I try to play a song, it just spins and never starts — then eventually the app just crashes. I’ve tried everything: my phone is off, Wi-Fi is off on the watch, and it has a solid LTE signal. I know data is working because Audible streams without any issues.
I haven’t changed anything on my end, but suddenly Apple Music just won’t work. And even if I somehow get a song or playlist to start, it usually crashes after one or two tracks. Super frustrating!
I have the same problem on Apple Music and Podcasts. It seems to be a syncing problem with the phone: it wants to sync the progress of the podcast or play count in Music and fails. A hard reset of the watch (hold in the digital crown and side button until it reboots) and rebooting the phone simultaneously fixes the problem for me, at least for a few weeks.
Exact same issue here.
This is such a cluster-****.
Apple has no idea what these bugs do with people’s trust.
I am thinking more and more to get rid of all these unusable toys and even get rid of Apple‘s ecosystem as well.
This is such a cluster-****.
Apple has no idea what these bugs do with people’s trust.
I am thinking more and more to get rid of all these unusable toys and even get rid of Apple‘s ecosystem as well.
This type of issues are ridiclous. Figure out that Apple had figured out how to have playlists and album 25 years ago, with the launch of the first iPod, where you could play music and then the device understood after one song was over, the listener would want to listen the next song. There is no excuse for it to happen in 2025. The music app is a mess. Sometimes it plays from the watch, sometimes it plays from the iPhone, and is still a mystery how to set it one way or the other, besides going out with the watch outside of the phone’s reach.