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Apple watch has stopped playing downloaded music

I have successfully played music on my apple watch many times before, without iPhone present. Now it won't play the downloads on the watch anymore. I click on play with apple watch and it just flashes and says connecting.


The watch is connected to my airpods as I can play podcasts from the podcast app fine.


This problem occurs intermittently. I have restarted the watch several times.

Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 7

Posted on Jul 24, 2021 5:20 PM

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Posted on Jul 24, 2021 8:24 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support

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Jul 24, 2021 8:24 PM in response to ScrotieMcBoogerBalls

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Apple watch has stopped playing downloaded music

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