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Auto launch audio apps has stopped working after I updated to watchOS 9.4.
By the way, I think the watch should auto launch the Now Playing app and not the specific audio app.
Apple Watch Series 8
After iOS 10 (Apple Watch) with iOS 17 (iPhone) Now Playing only shows me what is playing, but I can't control volume, pause or play. I use apps other than apple music and can no longer use my watch for these! Help!!
apparently, iOS 16.5 and watchOS 9.5 fixed it.
BUT I still wish it would open Now Playing instead of the watch version of the app playing the content.
I found that turning my watch off and then back on seems to fix the issue. I was having to do this weekly, but the past month has been better, not sure why. Anyhow, give that a shot folks, hopefully it will get your Now Playing to start working again.
Noticed the same on my Series 8 after updating to 9.4 recently. It seems to work again for a short period of time after rebooting the watch before it goes back to this strange behaviour. According to people on reddit a full re-pairing process also doesn't fix this for good. Seems to be a bug with watchOS 9.4. Hopefully Apple will fix this annoying bug with the next update (9.4.1 or 9.5)
I had same issue. I unpaired watch (ultra) and repaired and audio apps are now automatically launching on Watch
It seems like a lot of 2s are having this issue now. Up until this, my only complaint was that I can no longer get through the day on a charge. Maybe I will have to retire this old beauty and upgrade😢😢
which Reddit sub is it?
It is r/applewatch. I‘ve seen people talking about the same thing over there the other day
I tried to re-pair it twice and restart it, but the problem happens again after a few days.
It looks like it happened since the 9.4 update, before that everything worked fine.
Resetting my watch and phone helped me
Only for a short period of time. Did it stop functioning again?
Still working after 24 hours. I’m running 9.4 on Watch and 16.5 on iPhone
Let us know in a week - most report this is only a temporary fix.
I need to restart my phone and watch every day in order to make it work again. Absolute PITA.
Two days in - looks like it’s working again. Finally. 16.5 fixed it.
Now playing on Apple Watch not working after update
