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User profile for user: creatingwrite
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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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User profile for user: christineherndon
christineherndon
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Posted on Aug 15, 2021 8:12 PM

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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