- Downloads you can count on offline. Checkmark appears only when every song is on the watch; otherwise it shows a count like 12/14. Your downloads carry over to this update, and albums or playlists an earlier version hid come back. - Missing songs come back on their own. The app fetches missing songs again when it opens, when you open Downloads, or when the connection returns. With Wi-Fi Only on, it waits for Wi-Fi. - Download single songs. - Clear messages when a download fails. A tap tries again. - Less storage for shared songs. - Smoother sign-in, also on watchOS 27.

Letter jump for big libraries — no more endless scrolling from A to Z. • Tap the new button in the top-right of the Artists list to open an A–Z picker and jump straight to any letter • Artists are now grouped into alphabetical sections with sticky letter headers as you scroll • Picking a letter that hasn't loaded yet pulls in more of your library automatically • Picking a letter with no artists (like X for many libraries) jumps to the closest previous letter • Numbers and symbols are grouped under # at the top • Prefer the old flat list? There's a new toggle in Settings → Library → Letter Jump Plus a little extra spacing between rows so they're easier to read on the smaller faces.

Offline playback fixes: - Tracks that aren't downloaded no longer cause the player to get stuck retrying — it now skips ahead to the next downloaded track. - Failed tracks correctly skip after a single retry instead of looping. Fixes battery drain and stuck-playback reports from offline listening.

- improved library loading which uses slow WAN connections more efficiently - fixed issues playing downloaded albums - Scrubbing now works on transcoded streams. Previously, dragging the playback position on a transcoded track (e.g. FLAC → Balanced) snapped back to the original spot or restarted the song from the beginning. Seeks now rebuild the Plex transcode at the requested offset, so audio actually moves and the timer counts from the new position. - Recovers from playback stalls. Detects mid-stream buffer underruns, transcoder hiccups, and premature track-ends, and quietly rebuilds the player at the saved position (up to 3 attempts) instead of leaving the track stuck. - Stall recovery on transcoded streams resumes via offset rebuild rather than a restart-from-zero plus seek-after-ready, cutting recovery time. - No more "Connect a Device" prompt at launch. The audio session is now activated only when you start playback, so opening the app to browse your library never asks you to pair Bluetooth headphones first.