Spotify users with an Apple Watch have a little problem. The watchOS 9 update left them no ability to stream music directly from your watch.
I blamed this bug, which I personally experienced for the past few weeks, on a natural issue with the beta of iOS 16 and watchOS 9. In the final stages of their development and shortly before their official release, but with a beta finally cape.
No solution in the public version
However, the arrival of the final versions did not solve this problem and when a user tries to listen to undownloaded music from his watch, whether it is connected to WiFi or mobile network, he does not hear any songseven if the progress bar moves as if you were playing it.
Spotify informs about this incident with a brief statement in which it blames Apple for this problem, and in fact urges it to implement a solution. In the meantime, we don’t recommend upgrading to watchOS 9 in order to maintain this feature smoothly. A rather tricky recommendation.
Apple WatchOS 9 introduces a bug that will prevent Spotify content streaming on the Apple Watch from working. We encourage Spotify users with an Apple Watch not to install the watchOS 9 update until Apple has implemented a fix. Already affected users can download content to the Apple Watch and listen to it offline or stream it from the phone.
watchOS 9.1 beta is now available for developersso a next public version should be released in a few weeks, and perhaps, with it, the solution to this problem.
We encountered a similar incident in the past, in the early years of the Apple Watch: an iOS update brought a Thumbtack for the API for notifications to Bluetooth devices and third-party watches at the time, like the Pebble, lost some functionality until Apple, months later, fixed the issue in an update. subsequent software update.
