Music won’t download to Apple Watch

I’m running iOS 17.2 and WatchOS 10.2. When I use the Watch App on my phone to try to download music to my watch, it doesn’t work. A sort of faded-out icon of the playlist that I tried to download shows up in the Music app on the Watch, but when I tap on that icon, nothing happens.

I’ve tried restarting both phone and watch, unpairing, resetting, deleting and reinstalling the Watch app, etc. It used to work fine, I’m not sure when or why it stopped.

Apple Watch Series 9

Posted on Dec 18, 2023 9:28 PM

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