Now Playing Plus App Reviews

Cannot use. Installed app, no where to be found on my Apple Watch. Please help!

Wish I could use it. Since I added it my watch face has just stayed solid black.

Missing AirPlay & Volume Control. This app would be better if it just launched the stock Now Playing app. As it stands, it works okay but is missing functionality - namely AirPlay controls and adjusting volume. (The volume sorta works, but doesn’t use the crown’s haptics and doesn’t always adjust volume properly.)

Beware/sloppy coding. Even after multiple watchOS and iOS updates this app does not uninstall completely, leaving unusable complications littering your watch face options. It’s crap. Even though (somewhat) deleted from watch there is STILL a grayed-out “Purchased” next to it on the App Store—it can’t be downloaded again (to delete again—hopefully fully)!

I don’t see the time saving…. Downloaded this app due to a recommendation heard on MacBreak Weekly. Was hoping the complication would bring me to the stock Apple Now Playing app, but it doesn’t. Instead the first tap brings up an unnecessary splash screen; a second tap brings up the Now Playing+ screen which isn’t as good as the stock Apple app. So that’s two taps to get a so-so useful UI. Contrast that to my default action: (1) press the crown to bring up App View (2) tap icon, which I purposely place near dead center, for stock Apple Now Playing app. So, yes, still two steps, but result is a more powerful result, imo.

I'm back to loving this app. Thank you developers for reaching out to me about the workaround if I already downloaded the app to my watch! I'm so glad to have this awesome back in my complications list!

No frills. This app does just what I wanted with absolutely no hullabaloo so I can't complain. I'd love to see the option to see what's playing on the complication, or remove the text altogether and have only the icon. Better yet, custom icons would be killer. I'd happily pay a few dollars for those features.

Perfect. It does EXACTLY what I want, and without any creepy tracking. Thank you iconfactory!!

App never showed up as a complication. I followed support directions about deleting the app from the watch, turning phone and watch off and restarting. Now the app doesn’t show up at all on the Watch and I can’t re-download it.

Wish it could be a middle complication. I wish this could be set as a middle complication as well so I could use it as a replacement for Apple’s new nonfunctional Now Playing in watchOS 11

This app does Apples job for them.. I would love to see the airplay controls, up next, and dots from the stock now playing screen, but I’m still happy to have at least the basic play/pause and skip buttons accessible from my watch face. Thank you to the developer, and an open letter to Apple: why is the stock now playing not available on all watch faces? Why????????????????????????

Perfect!. So because of the new focus modes, I decided to add a new watch face that kicks on when my Bluetooth connects. Obviously that face was going to have Spotify, YouTube, podcasts etc. the one that got me though, was the lack of a YouTube complication, and one for the “Now Playing” app. I know they usually pop up, but if you go into your watch for anything else, it’s hard to get back. Well, PROBLEM SOLVED! I know that’s long winded, but the bottom line is, this app does exactly what I need to (as advertised), and didn’t even cost anything. So I wanted to write this as a sincere thank you to the developers. This is great, you’re awesome, thank you!

Redundant. The only way this app would be useful would be if it became the first non apple music complication to actually show the name of the song playing on the watch face. Otherwise it's nothing more than an unnecessary splash page and icon on your watch face. Surely this is possible to make better?

Scam do not download. This app does not do anything and does not allow you to uninstall. App Store shows the app as purchased but this app does not show up on my Apple Watch, in my apps, or even in purchased from the App Store. This app does not do anything.

Almost perfect. My volume control won’t work it shows it’s lowering the volume on the watch but nothing is changing in my AirPods. (Using Spotify)

Installed but can’t find it?. Not sure what’s going on. It’s installed, I verified it’s installed, but I can’t select it on my watch face.

Very messy app . Needs major updates. Messes with quick action. After this was installed the “double pinch” action was not working properly . After uninstall it started working again. After uninstalling , it is still not completely removed from your watch , as other reviews have mentioned. Do better

Yeah so?. What’s the point of this app? It’s worse than the stock music app complication and to play your music it’s an extra tap to the play button. Maybe I’m missing something, but why bother?

Hacky but useful. The functionality is clearly limited in part by apple’s restrictions and fragmentation, but it’s still a useful add for three reasons: 1. It lets me jump to now playing for any app I listen from (I use a few) from any watch face 2. It “remembers” what I was playing far longer than the built in now playing feature. It’s crazy that if I pause audio for a few minutes my phone and watch make me go back into the audio app to restart, npp remembers. 3. Apple Watch apps for some audio players (overcast, castro) don’t work great, npp always works My only request would be to add the track name of whatever’s playing to the complication

Wish it did more. Found this while looking for a corner complication that showed what was playing. This certainly does, if you click it. But it isn’t live on the watch face, it just shows the app name. So does Spotify. Was hoping for a little more.

Just what I needed.. Thank you, it does exactly what I needed.. which is a watch face shortcut to WHATEVER is playing. How this has not made it to stock watchOS, is a mystery to me. Thanks again.

App is missing. I used this on my Apple Watch 6 for a year and loved it. But when I upgraded to an Apple Watch Ultra it disappeared! There is now way to find and add it to my new watch Update: developer show me what I was doing wrong. Back to using and loving this app.

Well done and badly needed. This is a handy and needed complication to add to all watch faces. So far it works better and more reliably than the Apple or Spotify complication or app and for me only one that reliably can control volume on the devices I stream to. Only a few inconsistent actions. Sometimes it offers the AirPlay icon other times not. Also, sometimes if I switch apps or playlist it hesitates to change track name that is playing. Thank you for the circular complication I had been looking for.

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Brilliant!. Awesome utility. Hard to believe Apple didn’t do this already. I’m sure they will Sherlock it. Cheers!

Great but how do I get rid of the instruction screen. Great but how do I get rid of the instruction screen.

Everything Apple missed. This is exactly what Apple should have built, it works really well and provides a complication for each slot. It’s be great to have some customisation of icon/colour/design/etc.

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For me, a must-have app. I have experienced zero issues with this app. But more than that, it is precisely what it claims to be, “Plus”—more than the standard Apple offering. I was more than disappointed with Audible for providing NO control for their app (unlike Spotify, for example, whose app is excellent). I found Apple’s generic media playing controls not great (sometimes not there, not able to be added as a complication). Enter the FREE (I would pay 10s of $ for this app, just from the release from frustration with Audible alone) Now Playing Plus. I now have a permanent pride of place complication and can always control all media. And the page that is presented for controlling the media is an excellent UX. I’m not paid or affiliated with Iconfactory. I just value good design and dislike bad design.

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