"stop watching on your other device" error playing a movie

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"stop watching on your other device" error playing a movie

I ran into the "stop watching on your other device" error when I tried to resume playing a movie on my AppleTV device.

The movie was rented from AppleTV/iTunes.

I had been playing the movie on an iPad. Even though I didn’t download the movie to the iPad and had quit the Apple TV app on the iPad and later even quit the iPad and restarted, I kept getting the error on my AppleTV.

The fix was to open the AppleTV app on the iPad and start playing some other movie. I then shut that down and, presto chango, the original movie was now available to play on my AppleTV device.

Apple TV 4K

Posted on Jul 15, 2021 8:19 PM

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christineherndon

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Aug 15, 2021 8:12 PM in response to lilia808

Go to whatever main device you use, mine was my phone, go to your account and there should be a button that says Clear Play History. It doesn't delete anything just basically clears watch history and then the issue will be resolved!!

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Jul 31, 2021 1:44 PM in response to creatingwrite

In case if the above doesn’t help, it didn’t for me.

I went on the “Movie ITunes” on my Apple TV, found the movie I rented on Apple TV, pressed play, then pressed “play from the beginning” and it worked.

provided Apple TV app is closed on the iPad.

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lilia808

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13 points

Aug 5, 2021 6:27 PM in response to creatingwrite

Same problem here. I logged out of all devices and i keep getting the same error message. I am now unable to watch my FAST N FURIOUS 9!! Any other suggestions?!