Apple Music stops playing after one song on Apple Watch

Having the same problem with my Apple Watch Ultra 1 after upgrade to OS 26. I mostly play music during workouts with the Apple workout app running with feedbacks during the training session. Playing music works fine the first time right after a restart but the problem occurs again next time I workout. I manually need press the “forward” button in the player to go to the next song. Not sure if using the training app with feedbacks running in parallel with listening to music may have something to do with it?

Having the same problem with my Apple Watch Ultra 1 after upgrade to OS 26. I mostly play music playlists during workouts with the Apple workout app running with feedbacks during the training session. Playing music works fine the first time right after a restart of the watch but the problem occurs again next time I workout. I manually need to press the “forward” button in the player to go to the next song. Not sure if using the training app with feedbacks running in parallel with listening to music may have something to do with it?

I’ve had the same problem for such a long time. Apple Watch had been perfect for my running until this happened. I would have to try to skip close to the end of each song.

The lengthy process of unpairing watch and phone, and deleting the music app (this one caused much panic after all of my music disappeared, and was stored on iTunes on an old laptop)

these “solutions” only worked for a short time.

A new watchOS update happened to have appeared this morning, as I’ve come looking for the solution, once more. It specifically mentions this problem.

Fingers crossed this is a fix.

Also it happens on both Airpods and external Bluetooth. When mountain biking I use a jbl go and now after every single song I have to wake the watch and tap next.

This same thing is happening to me on my Ultra 1. I restarted the watch a week ago, and it seemed to "fix" it, but when out for a run today it started doing the same thing again. As others have said, very annoying when you are mid-run and it worked perfectly until WatchOS 26.

Same issue with me. Every time the song gets to the end, it won't go to the next track automatically. Also, if i'm running and getting audio prompts from fitness app about my pace each km, it pauses the song and doesn't resume it after the audio prompt has finished. Quite annoying.

My watch software version is up to date. Using Apple Watch Ultra 1.

Great that you found a fix for you. But I don’t listen to Apple Music anywhere else except my watch, so apparently I need a different fix. (Just posting so Apple doesn’t think the problem is fixed for everyone after reading your solution.) 😀

I have the same issue. Go to gym, start music playlist and after one song it stops playing songs from the playlist! Very annoying to have to "manually" advance to next song! Very annoying to have to restart Apple Watch after starting a workout! Very annoying that this long time issue isn't fixed! Quality is not what it use to be... just my observation.

This issue STILL exists even after s/w version 26.2 update! However, now if I start a playlist when I go to the fitness center, it will play 3 songs - THREE SONGS!!! before it stops. Apple software releases get worse & worse! They're tied for First Place for Worst Software Releases with Microsoft. I suppose the "talking heads" at the top of the proverbial "food chain" thinks it's better to NOT perform Quality Assurance/Quality Control processes to save some bucks for stake/stockholders. Horrid!

This didn’t fix it for me either, like everyone else it’s stopping every 3 songs and then defaulting back to the first one it played when tapping play on my Powerbeats Pro 2. I’ve tried every fix including removing all music and reinstalling the playlist afresh. It didn’t work, not even for a day.

I’m using the Ultra 1. Apple really needs to sort this as I’ve started seriously considering a garmin alternative.

The same problem in my Apple Watch Series 7 since IOS 26. It’s annoying!

Same issues here

Me too! Can someone please answer with the fix?

i have the same problem, ios 26, ultra 1. so annoying !

The new WatchOS fixed it.