Nike Run Club app on watch and airpods not working together

I was having the same issue! When you open Spotify on your Apple Watch, in the bottom right corner it has either a phone icon (which means Spotify is playing from your phone) if you click it, you can choose which device to play Spotify from. Select your watch, and then there will be a watch icon. Then open NRC and start your run and you should be able to hear the coaches voice too! I hope this helps!

I am having this same issue. When I load Nike Run Club on my Apple Watch series 6 it will play Spotify through my headphones but it will play audio from the Nike App (motivational comments/when to run/walk) through the Apple Watch speaker. How can I fix this?

I am having the same issue on my newly bought Series 6. The music (Apple Music / Spotify) does play through the bluetooth headphones but all announcements of NRC on the Apple Watch happen on the Watch speaker. So frustrating.

When I try this - I don’t seem to have an option to play on watch only play on iPhone - any ideas?

I had the same issues this morning with the audio feedback speaking trough the watch and not my AirPods Pro on NRC.

But I also notice that when I tried to reconnect the AirPods from control center on Apple Watch the audio feedback worked properly via AirPods. Then after a few minutes running the following audio feedback of the NRC came from the watch speaker again

I have the same issue my airpods are connected straight to the watch and spotify works from airpods but NRC is still only sounds from the watch

Gabby's solution in the thread solved my problem

Hi there annfromxenia,

We understand you have a question regarding the audio from the Nike Run Club app playing through your Apple Watch speaker and not your headphones, and we'd like to see if we can help.

Are your headphones paired to your Apple Watch or your iPhone when this occurs?

If you pair your headphones to your Apple Watch, does the audio then come through as expected? Here's how: Use AirPods and other Bluetooth accessories with Apple Watch

We hope this helps!

I am having the same issue since I updated my phone and watch... the Nike run club app USED to come through my AirPods without any problems AND be able to have Spotify music playing simultaneously. However, once I updated to the new IOS I no longer get any sound from NRC except from the watch speaker itself. Did Apple make an adjustment to the new operating system to eliminate phone/watch/Spotify/NRC/AirPod compatibility? If so, PLEASE fix this because my runs have become a lot more annoying to myself and those around me (outside my 6’ radius of course)...

Im having the same issue. What worked for me was to unpaired my earphones from my iPhone so my Apple Watch can detect it. It is the only solution I could find but I think is so annoying to do that each time I want to listen music from my watch. Cheers!

Hi pairing your EarPods with your watch solves the problem. Both NRC and music (I use Apple Music) can be heard in the EarPods simultaneously (music volume is automatically lowered when NRC tracker provides updates and resumes afterwards). I realize that when I next activate my EarPods they automatically reconnect to my watch. So no worries here for me and disconnecting them to reconnect to phone us a simple 2 step process so this works fine for me.

It seems other notifications will also sound in EarPods provided the related app is also installed on watch.

annfromxenia,

Thanks for that information.

To confirm, if you pair your AirPods directly to the Apple Watch, and not your iPhone, and play the music through there instead of your iPhone, does the audio then come through as expected?

Check out this resource for more information: Connect Apple Watch to Bluetooth headphones or speakers

Cheers!