As others have mentioned: leave them feedback. Holler at them.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html
https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html
What he/she said. You can no longer browse your iPhone library and hit play on the watch to start playing music on the iPhone. The Music app is only for the Watch now.
You control the iPhone with Siri and Now Playing, but you lose the ability to browse and see artwork now. Fortunately, you can access AirPlay options from Now Playing.
This is a ridiculously expensive app! $23 AUD! And I assume you can control music playback stored in that app instead of iTunes music library.Try NePlayer Lite. I connected AirPods to iPhone and am now able to play & navigate music from iPhone (through NePlayer Apple Watch app), maybe Apple will change their mind.
There’s a Lite version for free. It only works with non DRM files. albums! Works with Apple Music files. They are both much slower than the native watchOS 3 app though.This is a ridiculously expensive app! $23 AUD! And I assume you can control music playback stored in that app instead of iTunes music library.
I have chatted with an engineer at Apple after hours on Apple support. He has confirmed that iPhone music control will now be RETURNING to Apple Watch. I want to end this update with this. I never could’ve gotten here without you. Me a single customer could never been considered to even talk to the software engineering team let alone convince them to restore a feature. Apple is such a big company and I never could have thought this would’ve happened, I’d just like to say thank you again without a petition of about 1000 people I would have been a joke on the phone. I will officially declare victory on this petition is when an update with music function restored is officially released to public
I got an email message to a change.org petition to have the feature restored and Apple has agreed.