Apple Watch Syncing Issue

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  magicmiguel · Member · October 30, 2026 at 1:05 am

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  I am a heavy user of the watch app. I pretty much leave my phone at home all the time when I run/walk and stream podcasts to my watch over cellular. I definitely like the recent improvements you have made for instant syncing between the iPhone and watch. However, I’ve noticed an issue that impacts me almost every day. I stream the podcasts and don’t pre-download them to save space on my devices. I noticed if I start a new podcast on my watch while on cellular away from my phone and don’t finish the episode by the time I return home, my progress will not be synced to my phone. When I launch the phone app, it will show the episode I started while out on a run, but the progress will be at 0:00. Then if I go back to the watch app to see where I left off, it has also been reset back to 0:00.

  Steps to reproduce:

  1. Make sure downloading on phone and watch are disabled so all episodes stream
  2. Move out of range of the phone so the watch is on cellular (I haven’t tested to see if this happens on WiFi yet)
  3. Start a new podcast which you haven’t listened to (so progress hasn’t already been synced)
  4. Listen for a while
  5. Return to your phone
  6. Stop the podcast on your watch
  7. Launch the app on your phone
  8. The episode will appear in the mini player, but progress will be reset to 0:00 on all devices