How to stop music from playing from iPhone instead of Apple Watch

I’m having the same problem. Super annoying. I have to power my phone completely off to play music downloaded to my watch and to earbuds paired with the watch. Otherwise when I try to play music on my watch it plays it on the phone speakers. Weirdest feature. I’ve tried turning off auto launch and it still doesn’t work. Any answer for how to turn off this feature?

Understood Cfmorales12,

It sounds like Now Playing may be getting involved here, which is explained at Use Now Playing on Apple Watch - Apple Support. It lets your watch function as an audio remote for your iPhone. Could you double check that the Now Playing app isn't open on your Apple Watch?

Thanks!

Since specialists haven’t responded since Oct, I’m assuming there isn’t a solution. It’s an annoying glitch.

My problem is similar but not the same.

I will give my Watch commands and it randomly thinks I want music to play on my phone.

here I am in the middle of some thing and wanting my watch to help me, and I have to stop everything, locate my phone and turn off the music that’s playing on my phone.

it happens enough to be very annoying.

Especially for those of us who hardly even use the Music app at all. We bunch i’ve already been frustrated because you cannot remove the music app from your control panel on the iPhone!

They should make it so that the watch and the phone do not communicate when it comes to music. Because usually people prefer one or the other method in general, and if they switch back-and-forth there can be a generated question-when music is changed, “would you like us to update this choice on other devices?”

that would be the simplest solution to an annoying problem.

I think I have it solved: you need to begin by going to the “Now Playing“ app on your watch, and select the headphones you want to play to (there you may have to add a device), and once you have done that you can go to the Music app on your Apple Watch and it will play music from your Apple Watch to those headphones.

I know how to use AirPlay. The headphones don’t show up as an option to stream to when I select the AirPlay icon. Only my phone and the home pods. And yes, I’ve checked that the earbuds are connected in the Bluetooth setttings. I have to turn my phone completely off for the music downloaded on my watch to play to the Bluetooth earbuds connected to my watch.

Hello Cfmorales12,

We'd be happy to help. You may need to change which device you're playing music on. You can do that by following the steps here: Play music on Apple Watch - Apple Support

Thanks.