Apple Watch workout notification keeps pausing music

I turned off the “Voice Feedback” setting on my watch workout setting and it fixed the issue. That setting has a bug that shuts music off when it activates. This is fine for me cause I don’t care for Siri to interrupt me when I’m in the zone on my work out

That would be maddening. I've found that if you physically transfer music to your Series 7 watch and play it from the watch (no phone nearby), things work correctly. Also if you are playing music stored on your phone, things work correctly. But things do not work properly for any streaming service I've tried. I have Series 7 GPS (no cellular) and iPhone SE (new model).

I cannot believe that so many folks are facing same problem... I think I got the solution: GO TO YOUR WATCH APP ON IPHONE, THEN DISABLE NOTIFICATIONS FOR ACTIVITY AND WORKOUT... it worked for me today as I was frustrated for last 4 weeks since I started working out.. hope it helps

As another data point:

I just went for another run with iWatch only (no phone, and my iWatch is GPS-only), while playing music stored on watch using standard music app. Announcements worked properly (reduced music volume, announced, turned music volume back up).

Perhaps this issue is only while streaming. (For me the issue occurs while streaming through Sirius/XMradio app)

No. And I have read others who have the same issue. I’ve brought it to Apple’s attention but there is no answer. It seemed to happen in one of the IOS 15 updates. As I said, I get the mileage audio updates only when I’m using Apple’s fitness stories but not for music or a podcast.

I have not found a fix. My workaround is to say "Siri, play," and most of the times she will restart the paused streaming music.

This is frustrating.

Hello ChrisMeer,

Thank you for reaching out about using Spotify pausing during your workouts. For this particular issue, you would want to reach out to Spotify about the options avaiable to you with the steps in this link: How to contact an app developer

Cheers!

I had a similar issue. Working out playing from an apple music playlist on the apple watch 7 (gps) music kept pausing all the time. Not a single song would finish uninterrupted.

After one auto pause and press play again, I noticed music playing that was not on the watch so I realized it was connecting to my iPhone that was at least 50 feet away behind a concrete wall in the gym locker.

I turned bluetooth off on my iPhone and it has not happened since.

I don’t have spotify but I hope this helps!

Since November 2021 I am in exchange with a senior apple support person, sent numerous diagnosis files using various iOS versions. Meanwhile I did a factory reset on my iPhone 13 pro, my Apple Watch 6 and i even had the possibility to test different firmware versions on (different) AirPods.

…all without any success.

Last month I got a mail asking me to keep the software always up2date.

thats all, unfortunately

The same issue happens to me at youtube music and several radio apps so cause is apple

@sharon_419

Perhaps you can pass this thread to Apple Support, or open a ticket if you can.

I submitted a “ticket” at www.Apple.com/feedback

I suggest everyone experiencing this issue do the same.

I can confirm this with my new Apple Watch 7. It happens on any music playing, not just Spotify. After every status update, I need to manually press play to continue listening to the music that was paused.