Watch 5 not showing music player that's used on my phone

[Maxkun]

Recently my Watch got an update. Since then the Watch has trouble showing the music player I use on my phone. I either use S2 or Youtubw Music. As I have seen Youtube Music is no problem, but S2 is a problem. Before the update the Watch never had problem showing S2 on the Watch, but now it's seldom happening. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

[Neo001]

Till this is fixed, a workaround could be to start the Media player manually. Does it show the current song/podcast that is being played on your phone when you open the Media player manually?

[tungnt051]

i have the same problem. No matter what i played on mobile, nothing happen on my watch 4 screen. i think it was happen after 2 recent updates. Before that, when i played video on youtube, music on spotify or YTmusic, my watch alway pop the media up and i can fully control on watch. Now it was just annoying, im using smart watch but still have to manually open media player on it

[DerKeks]

In order to get more attention by Samsung, I also wanted to chip quickly in. I've noticed the same bug since the last update 2 or 3 months ago, and it seems to be actually quite common. There are a few reddit threads on it, too. It honestly quite annoying, but a restart of the watch, then clearing all recent apps, and then waiting a minute or two usually fixes the problem.

[mafikiki]

To get even more attention, I had same issue on my Watch 4 about 2-3 months back. Since then I got watch 6 classic (about a week ago) and the issue stayed even tho I updated everything in my phone and watch. Someone says restarting watch and clearing recent apps works but I haven't found work-around like that

[Smithee]

This started to happen to me between my S22 Ultra and Watch 4. It wasn't until I tried to open the web browser on my watch and visit a bookmark that I got the message "No network connection", even though my phone had good reception. So I deemed it an issue with the connection between the phone and watch.

I opened the Wearables app on my phone, and it didn't show my watch. I dragged down on my screen and can see it is connected to my watch via Bluetooth. I tapped on it to disconnect, waited about ten seconds, and then tapped again to reconnect. The Wearables app opened up automatically and found my watch. I then checked my watch, and can now view and control the media.

[BigGeo]

This has happened with my watch 5 and s22+ but I did find on the wearable app the Tyles button there's a tyle called media controller this has sorted my problem hope this helps for you