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OS5 Only Playing One Track At A Time When Streaming To Iphone Or Wireless Speaker

I have recently upgraded??? my EX2 Ultra to OS5 and now I am finding that when I stream a music album to my iphone it will only play one track and then I have to hit play at every track. I did not have this problem in OS3. The problem appears to happen when the iphone auto locks and the only way to resolve it is to disable autolock on the phone which is not ideal and as I say this was not an issue with OS3. Apart from this problem OS5 does everything else as I would expect including thumbnails etc. When I had OS3 I could minimise the WD OS3 screen and use other functions on the phone and the music would continue streaming but not now under OS5. I use my iphone to stream music in my car using Bluetooth or CarPlay and I have never had this problem until now. This also occurs when streaming music to a Bluetooth speaker on my local network.
I also have a My Cloud Mirror which I upgraded??? to OS5 with the same issues.
That’s to me is not exactly an upgrade to a system which I have been using for about 5 years with no such problems.

After a bit of searching and trying a few things it would appear that this problem started happening when I upgraded my iPhone to IOS 15 and Apple were aware of it and they released a further update to resolve this issue. Unfortunately the problem has not been resolved. I have another iPhone which is running IOS 14 and this phone does not have this problem. I attempted to downgrade my iPhone to IOS 14 but Apple does not allow you to do this, so I will have to wait and see if Apple resolve this issue with a further update. I will not hold my breath.

have you seen the same problem onOS5 on Ipad OS ?

I don’t use OS5 but had OS3 on my pad through ios15 beta

My iPad runs IOS 14 and does not have any problems with WD OS 5. I also have an older iPhone running IOS 14 and that also works fine with WD OS 5. I am expecting a phone call from Apple this morning after a live chat last night. I only hope that this is not Apple pushing customers towards Apple Music as some people suspect.

All sorted as Western Digital have updated the the My Cloud OS 5 App recently.
Make sure you are running the updated My Cloud OS 5 app and all should work fine.

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