Scottyboy99

Q: Music list in watch screwed up

I Use the watch quite a bit to view and shuffle my music. I never Bluetooth songs over to the watch, I simply listen through my iPhone as usual but utilise the watch music app to shuffle or look at my playlists. It does a good job of replicating exactly what displays on my phone.

 

however, on rare occasions the watch music lists can get screwy and as far as I can see the only fix is to unpair, pair and then restore from last backup. Always sorts it out. But it's a long drawn out process and takes ages as all the apps restore.

 

an example was the other night. I bought a couple songs on my iPhone. All normal on the phone but for some strange reason the watch displayed each song twice.so for recently added my phone listed each song the once but they were duplicated on the watch. I checked all my other devices such as iPad, Apple TV and iMac to see if they duplicated the songs in question and they did not. Only the watch. As it irritated me and I couldn't fix it (tried a few things including force quitting music app, restarting watch) I unpaired and re paired watch and after a long process of restore it was fixed and list was fine only showing once.

 

long winded but it brings me to my question - is there a way of forcing the watch to rebuild the music app song lists without needing to restore - it would be much quicker?

 

thanks

Wayne

Posted on Jun 20, 2016 11:16 PM

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  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Jun 20, 2016 11:25 PM in response to Scottyboy99
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    Jun 20, 2016 11:25 PM in response to Scottyboy99

    Hi,

     

    Make sure your Apple Watch software is up to date.

     

    On your iPhone tap the Watch app icon then tap General > Software Update

     

     

     

    **  This may or not apply to your situation.

     

    Learn More

    Your Apple Watch playlist is limited to 1 GB by default. In the Watch app on your iPhone, you can change this setting to 2 GB, 500 MB, or 100 MB. If you prefer to limit by song number, you can limit your playlist to 15, 50, 125, or 250 songs.

    From here > Listen to music on your Apple Watch - Apple Support