Apple Music keeps pausing on Apple Watch.

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Hey all I know the frustration I too have hit this problem very recently just the other day However I seem to have to found a fix after fiddling around well at least it has worked for me and hopefully it’ll work for you too, ok so the issue seems to be from when you’ve synced music or your watch has automatically updated overnight while connected to your iPhone it seems to get stuck in some form of loop of not playing whilst LTE & or Bluetooth is active what you need to do is hold down the Digital Crown and side button at the same time until you see the Apple logo to hard reboot your watch (don’t worry it won’t delete any of your settings or data) but this seems to fix the issue, I hope this helps let me know many thanks, :)

Maybe try downloading a few playlists to the watch and play from the watch. Vs trying to stream over cellular.

That’s what I’ve been doing and it’s been working fine.

Might not be exactly what you were shooting for but might help you through the run.

Hopefully you shouldn’t have the issue again I’ve been using Apple Music on the watch for a long time and never faced this issue up until the other day i think it was just the watch just running into a temporary glitch loop, but doing just a hard reboot without having to reset the watch or anything easily seems to do the trick I think going forward all should be good :) *fingers crossed*

The upgrade to 11.4.1 on the phone and the latest OS on the watch seems to have resolved issue. The release notes indicated a fix to Airplay which might be related.

I’d be interested if others are seeing the same results from the latest OS upgrades.

Hold down the Digital Crown and side button until the Apple logo appears. I did that yesterday and haven’t had an issue since. Hope that works for you.

I am having the same problem and I thought it was solved after upgrading my watch OS. I have repaired and everything but still having the same problem with my bose soundsport wireless. I did the hard reboot and it seems to be working again. Hopefully this isn't a recurring issue. One of the main things I use my watch for is running and working out without my phone.

Doing a Reset on my Apple Watch finally did the trick for me. On your Apple Watch, go to Settings > Reset. Say yes, and proceed with the Reset process.

Do not worry, your Phone will have the backup of your Watch. Once Reset is complete, your iPhone will ask to choose a backup for the newly paired Watch.

Thanks to the original poster as well as everyone’s input! I experienced the same issue of music randomly pausing as my new Apple Watch 4 was connected to my Powerbeats 3. I took the majority of the advice and did a hard reboot on my watch (press and hold the crown + side button until Apple logo reappears). Been testing for a short while and it seems to work, hopefully remains that way. If not, I’ll be back!

~ Mo from Vancouver, BC, Canada

1130am on 2018-09-23

That premium is for the software too. Apple needs to figure out what's happening here and fix it.

Here are some things I have tried:

- Different bluetooth headsets (power beats, and air pods)

- Turning off bluetooth on my phone

- Rebooting the watch.

Reboot has worked, at least for a few minutes.

Restarting seems to only fix the issue for a short period of time. I have also wiped the watch and reset it up and the issue comes back. There are times when turning off bluetooth on the phone will alleviate the issue.

It does a seem like a core, no-brained use case ... playing music that is downloaded to your watch (like an iPod Nano). Unfortunate that software is so poor from Apple after paying a premium for their hardware.

Having the same issue. Since WatchOS 4.3 update my music keeps pausing on my watch. The playlist is stored locally on my Apple Watch but it seems like it will only play from local storage without pause if my watch is not connected to my phone or to LTE. I have tried removing and re-adding the playlist and resetting the entire watch already. Very frustrating that I pay for LTE service to not be able to use my watch in the gym, listen to music directly from the device without pause and be able to receive a call/text since this is why I bought it.

I have had the same issue recently. Tried restarting the watch (haven’t tried a complete reset) and deleting the playlist and resyncing but the issue persists. I thought it was the headphones, but they work fine when connected to the phone only.

If anyone finds a fix let us know.

I'm having the same exact problem. Very frustrating. I purchased the Apple Watch to make life easier, but instead a couple days after purchasing I'm spending unnecessary time trying to figure why my music won't play on my Apple Watch. I am trying to play music from Apple music. Airpods work fine on iphone. Not sure what the deal is, but this needs to be fixed otherwise what's the point. Could be an Apple music deal which I then hope Spotify rolls out on Apple watch. Very disappointed.