This is a truly miserable experience. When Audible first introduced the Apple Watch app I was listening to a book called Wolves by D. J. Molles to my watch. The book is 18 hours and 19 minutes and at first I couldn't figure out why when I opened the Audible app on my watch it kept saying I needed to first transfer a book by syncing it to my watch. I eventually ignored it and a few days later happened to check and the book was then on my watch, why something like can't transfer over Wi-Fi in minutes I am not sure. Anyhow, on the watch there then shows the title and there are 4 buttons which just say "Button". By trial and error I figured out that the bottom right button is the sleep timer. The one above on the right as well doesn't seem to do anything until I force press it, then it opens a menu where I can delete the book, I can set speed and a few other things. On the left are also two buttons one on top of another and unlabelled and I haven't quite figured out what they do. When I double tap on the bottom left I hear a sort of tone and then Voiceover speaks the title and when I double tap again it starts playing, however, none of the 4 buttons seems to stop playback and I had to go into my Now Playing screen where I have labelled buttons for Pause, 30 seconds rewind and 30 seconds skip. Anyhow, I really don't have time for such nonsense especially since I can't even listen on my Apple Watch speaker. This would be the only use I currently have, I could maybe turn the volume quite low and with my watch near my head I could listen at night without having to use a headset and without disturbing my wife, sort of like a pillow speaker almost. But you can only listen with a Bluetooth headset so I might as well use my iPhone or, even better, when I am at home I can just tell my Echo to play my book since I have my Voyager Edge paired with my Echo speaker as well. Here I can tell it which book and if I am already listening to a book I just say "Alexa, play my book" and it will start where I left off on my iPhone or if I was listening on a different Echo device including my Sonos One speakers. If Audible wants people to use their Apple Watch app to listen to books they better make this a better experience first.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: 'Gary Robinson' via VIPhone <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2018 2:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Synching Audible book on to Apple watch Hi Anna, Glad its not just me then! I was trying to sync a 15 hour book and the phone which has an APPLE smart battery pack was right next to the watch which was on the charger. I think I will try some experimentation and see if there is anything on the forums about this and possibly complain to Audible, not really a good start for a new watch App. Thanks Gary On 11/11/2018 21:28, Anna Dresner wrote: > Hi Gary, > > I got a 1.5-hour book onto the watch when it was plugged in overnight. I > couldn't transfer a 9-hour book, though. Transferring is slow and likely to > fail, so your best bet is to do short books. And nothing will transfer unless > the watch is on the charger. > > HTH, > Anna > > > > >> On Nov 11, 2018, at 3:10 PM, 'Gary Robinson' via VIPhone >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone managed to successfully sync and Audible book from their IPHONE >> across to their APPLE watch? >> >> I am running the latest IOS and watch OS on my IPHONE 6 and watch series 2. >> All I get is a message saying "can't communicate with watch" which is >> strange as I can ping the phone from the watch and all my other Apps >> communicate across the two devices fine. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> Gary >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: >> [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >> [email protected] >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
