I’m having some odd behaviour with podcasts and my Apple Watch. iPhone and Watch both updated to iOS 17 and watchOS 10. Whenever I play a podcast from the Podcasts app on my iPhone, the Podcasts app on the Watch opens, instead of the Now Playing app.
But the Podcasts app doesn’t show any controls or info about the currently playing podcast, just the podcasts menu. There is a small icon in the top right that looks a now playing indicator, but tapping it does nothing. I keep having to manually switch to Now Playing app, but even then sometime it switches back to the (useless) Podcast app.
I’m not sure if this is expected behaviour or a bug, whatever it is it’s not very useful.
I’m having some odd behaviour with podcasts and my Apple Watch. iPhone and Watch both updated to iOS 17 and watchOS 10. Whenever I play a podcast from the Podcasts app on my iPhone, the Podcasts app on the Watch opens, instead of the Now Playing app.
But the Podcasts app doesn’t show any controls or info about the currently playing podcast, just the podcasts menu. There is a small icon in the top right that looks a now playing indicator, but tapping it does nothing. I keep having to manually switch to Now Playing app, but even then sometime it switches back to the (useless) Podcast app.
I’m not sure if this is expected behaviour or a bug, whatever it is it’s not very useful.
Must be a bug, it’s automatically opening the player controls in the Podcasts app for me.
Podcast playback controls are now working for me, I closed the Watch app a few times and it then started working without issue.
Something must have got stuck during the upgrade process I guess.