Now playing on Apple Watch not working after update

Seems like my watch can't find the watch to play it in Now Playing. the only thing showing up is the AirPod and it does not control them. I done everything mention and tired to resetting and having to rebuild wallet, etc...this is a royal pain in the ***...

Same issue over here 👋🏽 At this point I’d be happy with being able to see what’s playing, even if I can’t to control the music from my watch. I thought it had something to do with the fact I’ve got a first generation Apple Watch but as so many others have reported issues it can’t be that.

One day about a month ago “Now Playing” just stopped. I upgraded my iPhone to a newer model and there were no issues. Then after a couple of weeks “Now Playing” stopped working as intended. It doesn’t auto launch anymore either.

I’ve tried all the troubleshooting suggestions, including resetting my Apple Watch and reassigning it to my iPhone but to no joy.

Any support would be greatly appreciated.

As I am having the same problem, I am keen to try what you suggest. Unfortunately I don't understand what you write:

What do you mean by "unpair watch from the app?". Which app? Do you mean remove it from the watch?

I don't understand what you mean by "restore from backup". I confess to knowing nothing about watch backups.

It is r/applewatch. I‘ve seen people talking about the same thing over there the other day

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.

Now instead of not popping out at all it does and works for some time until it get stuck on “Loading…”, great fix.

Then why I need to kill Music app every day on my watch in order to have it auto start and change volume properly?

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It's not working for me and I have Apple Watch version 10.1.1 and the latest iOS version 17.1.2

Same thing is happening to mine!!! SOS

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