Podcasts not downloading to Apple Watch

I have a new Apple Watch 5 and since I’ve had it it’s never been able to download a full podcast to the watch. I’ve tried restarting both and I have all the latest updates. I charge them both together but I just get the ‘updating message’

the same is true for music.

please advise.

Apple Watch

Posted on Feb 14, 2020 2:03 AM

Similar questions

Podcast I am doing what the internet says but I can't seem to get podcasts to download onto my Apple Watch. I have my Watch connected to charge and am selecting custom on my phone. Am I missing something?
786 3
Can I force download a podcast to Apple Watch? I would like to listed to a news podcast when I run in the morning, without my iPhone. The podcast is released early in the morning, around the time I wake up, so my watch doesn’t have time to auto-download it. After I wake up and have my watch on, is there a way that I can force my watch to download the podcast? It would be a pain to have to take my watch off, go back upstairs, put it on the charger and wait for it to download (as I have no control over exactly when the watch will download it). When I tap on the podcast (it has the little empty cloud symbol) it begins to play immediately, which I assume starts the download process, though there is no progress bar or indication if it completely downloaded. The last time I tried this, the podcast stopped about half way when I was listening to it. I wish Apple considered a situation like mine where a podcast is released after regular overnight charging and a person then wants to listed to it from their watch. A simple “Download now” option would address this. I’d be happy to manually download the podcast if Apple gave me a means to do so, and to know it’s been fully downloaded. Giving the watch the ability to play podcasts and music without a phone is great, but not giving us more control over that process, when we need it, is a failure on Apple’s part.
8713 3
Podcast not available on apple watch I have tried to get podcasts on my watch, but I can’t seem to find the podcasts app in the my watch section of the Apple Watch app.
447 1

3 replies

Mambaman68 Author

Level 1

20 points

Feb 15, 2020 12:57 PM in response to mambaman

Ok I’ve found the solution: I had the watch on one of those multi chargers. Seems that the download doesn’t work when it’s on that. I switched back to the Apple Watch charger and it proceeded fine (albeit rather slowly)

mambaman

Level 1

6 points

Feb 14, 2020 2:39 AM in response to Community User

I have done all of that already thanks

Feb 14, 2020 2:38 AM in response to Mambaman68

This might help;

Listen to music, podcasts, and audiobooks on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

Podcasts not downloading to Apple Watch

Welcome to Apple Support Community

A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.

Learn more Sign up