Music on Watch Series 3 Does Not Automatically Change to Next Song

[MarkY]

I've done some searching and think my watch has a problem since I cannot find other reports of this issue. Playlists synced to my Series 3 watch do not automatically change to the next song. The first song will play but the next one never starts. I have to manually change to the next song. I've tried a variety of playlists, downloaded the songs again to no avail. The only thing I have not tried is formatting the watch and starting over since I do not want to lose my Activity history.

I had both OG and Series 2 watches but never listened to songs directly from the watch so, I don't know if I carried over this problem from an earlier Watch. With the Series 3, I like to run without my phone (which is awesome) but it's a hassle to manually change the songs, especially with gloves on. Previously, I always ran with my phone so l used that as the streaming source instead of the watch.

Has anyone else experienced this or have a suggestion?

TIA!

 

[doogald]

You won’t lose any of your activity history if you unpair the watch and then re-pair without restoring from backup. Activity is synced to your iPhone; if you look at the Actvity app on the iPhone, that history will stay after the watch is set up again from scratch.

I don’t listen to music on my watch, so I can’t help with that, but did want to point out that you’re ok to reset and start over.

 

[Mac Guy]

I had both OG and Series 2 watches but never listened to songs directly from the watch

I have some OGs and a S2 and have played music once on both types. I don't remember the iOS/wOS involved, but they did play as you'd expect a playlist to.

I don't have an S3 yet so I'm no help there.

 

[MarkY]

Thanks for the replies, very helpful. An unpairing and restore from backup solved the problem. No loss of Activity data so I'm a happy camper (runner) now!