Remote control Itunes on my mac from my Apple Watch

I updated to watch os 11 today and found that it doesn't seem to support remote control of Itunes on my Macbook anymore?! (Even though my apple watch and Mac are connected to the same wifi the macbook doesn't appear anymore in the remote app on my apple watch)

The only option is now my Apple TV and the new user guide for apple watch only talks about how to control apple TV : Control Apple TV with Apple Watch - Apple Support (JO)


I am SO disappointed! This is the main reason I bought my Apple watch serie 9. To be able to remotely control the music in my itunes library.


Is there anyone out there that know if it's true that apple just dumped this future or is there a way to make it work again? Or another watch app that cna do this?


And if they really took away the support for this, please apple, bring it back in the next update !


The whole point of having an apple watch is to seamlessly communicate to and from your other apple devices. Why take away a beautiful and super practical function?


Please consider bringing back support of remotely controlling your macbook when it's playing music from itunes.

Apple Watch Series 9, watchOS 11

Posted on Sep 17, 2024 7:13 AM

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Sep 24, 2024 1:31 PM in response to jonatan85h

I have the same issue after updating to 11, I use to be able to connect to shared Music libraries on my MacBook Air and a shared iTunes library on a pc, but now it only searches for AppleTV which I don't have.


My computers, iPhone and Watch are all fully up to date on the newest OSs, everything worked until the watchOS update.


At the moment I can still use the remote app on my phone to control the other libraries, but a large part of the appeal of a smart smart watch is not having to fish your phone out of your pocket every time you wanna do a quick simple task.


This seems like a really bad regression, and I think they did it on purpose because they change the icon from a simple play button to an image of the AppleTV remote.

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