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Is there anything I can do to speed up the sync with my brand new, shiny Apple Watch? So far, 3 of 121 songs have synced and it has been over 7 minutes. Feels like we're back in the 90s with dial up!
Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 4.2
I don't know if this will help with your issue or not, but it is trick which works with the "Watch Player" podcasts app, so might be worth a shot?
Before trying to transfer anything to the Apple Watch turn off the Bluetooth via the "settings" app on the iPhone, NOT the slide-up "Control Center" as that doesn't fully disable Bluetooth, which is a whole other issue! No need to change anything on the Apple Watch.
Make sure Wi-Fi connectivity is still enabled for both iPhone and Apple Watch, and that they are both on the same Wi-Fi network, then sync the content. This forces the watch to use the much quicker Wi-Fi connectivity rather than the slow as **** Bluetooth connection.
Once finished remember to turn your Bluetooth back on!
I have found that in the case of the Watch Player app, that hour long podcasts (around 75mb) transfer in a few seconds, rather than what seemed like hours using the normal method.
As I say it might not be the answer to syncing songs, but it could be worth a try. Hopefully Apple will stop neglecting such basic functionality with the watch and address this crazy situation with a software update.
Same problem here .. iPhone 7, series 3 LTE watch. Sync goes at about one song every 15 minutes. A total joke.
I'm getting sick of these basic flaws in Apple tech that they dont seem to care about. The OP was back in March. Where is a fix for this Apple?
I found a solution that takes 4 to 5 seconds per song. It forces the watch and iPhone to sync over wifi. In my case it was on my home wifi. This has to be wifi that your watch has been linked to.
1. Make sure you are close enough to the router for the watch to pick-up the wifi
2. Switch off the Bluetooth on your iPhone under the phone settings
3. Slide up from the bottem of your watch and make sure the green phone icon that indicate a connection to your phone is relaced by blue concave lines indicating wifi signal. There will be 3 if you have full signal.
4. Choose the playlist/s you would like to sync in the apple watch app on the iPhone under music
5. Now place your watch on the charger
6. Give the watch between 30 and 60 seconds to start the sync of music
7. You should be able to view the progress on the apple watch app on the iPhone under music
8. The songs should take between 4 to 5 seconds per song to sync to the watch over wifi
9. Remember to switch on Bluetooth after the sync completes
I hope this helps.
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH! At first, my watch would not upload any music. I was stuck at "updating 1 of 68 songs". But after I followed all of your instructions, the songs actually started to load. Thank you again for posting your solution as it fixed my problem.
My wife experienced the slow transfer of songs as well and your solution to make sure she was on 2.4 ghz network and turning off BT worked immediately, transfer times went from minutes to seconds. Thanks for the tip.
Turn OFF Bluetooth to sync way faster. It works wonders.
Be sure the watch and phone are on the same WiFi network. The watch can’t be on “Home” and the phone on “Home-5G.” It may or may not work on coffee shop or airport WiFi where they separate connected devices.
Steps:
1. Have your music on your phone ready to sync showing pending or have it syncing to the watch already.
2. Turn Bluetooth completely off. If you do it though control panel and the button changes from Blue to Gray you are still connected to the watch. Go into settings and turn the Bluetooth off completely.
3. Enjoy the faster transfer
Troubleshoot:
If it’s not working, verify your watch is on WiFi by swiping up from the watch face to see the name of the WiFi network. Go to settings>WiFi to change.
Then check you phone is on the same WiFi network. Again, one can’t be on the 5G duplicate of your WiFi router (modern routers have these town networks usually).
Hopefully this helps. I saw a lot of people here and felt compelled to write this. I have done this since the series 2 and even on the 4 the WiFi stood faster than even the Bluetooth 5.0. Using an iPhone X so both have 5.0. Still slow.
Perfect!! Now it syncs 3-4 songs per minute, which is very acceptable.
Keep in mind that you'll probably get a pop up message in the iPhone asking to turn on bluetooth to connect with your watch. Click on cancel until the syncs are completed.
Helped me right away - while the sync was on and it was taking forever to upload music to my brand new iwatch 4, I just turned off bluetooth in THE SETTINGS on my iphone - and music just streamed to my watch the same moment. Apple, this is embarrassing. Can't it be somehow controlled automatically via finding the fastest available sync method? Feels like 90's, true...
I'm sorry I don't have an answer, mine has just stopped syncing at 160 out of 350..it also was very slow as it got close to 160.
I can only speak from my experience and after the HARD reboot, my series 3 synced much faster.
I did the hard reboot (holding both crown and side button) but did not improve updating. But then, my updating seems to be worse than some others. Mine will update one song about every 60 minutes.
It took me a whole night (8 hours) to sync 9 songs out of 70. Then it stays there...
I did this. It worked perfectly for me. The songs don't sync as fast as they would from my PC to my phone but 20 sec per song is about accurate.
Thanks for the directions. I followed them exactly.
This was super helpful; thank you!
Worked for me. Apple really needs to solve this.
Thanks: billholding
That worked for me! Thanks!😀
Apple Watch Music Sync takes several minutes per song
