In this guide, we will show you various methods to remove the blue music icon from your Galaxy smartwatch. When it comes to the smartwatch domain, then the offerings from Samsung have firmly established themselves as the absolute best in this domain. Running the Android-based wearOS, it has a slew of tweaks up its sleeves. However, it does tend to have its fair share of issues as well.
One among them is the persistent blue music icon that just refuses to go away from the Galaxy Smartwatch. While the users mostly see this icon when their watch is connected to their device and the latter is playing music, however, for some, the icon tends to remain even if they disconnect their watch from their device. If you are also facing this issue, then this guide will make you aware of numerous workarounds to resolve this bug. Follow along.
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How to Remove the Blue Music Icon from Galaxy Smartwatch
It is recommended that you try out each of the below-mentioned workarounds and then see which one spells out success. So with that in mind, let’s get started.
FIX 1: Force Stop App
As strange as it may sound, in most cases, the culprit turns out to be the Amazon Kindle app installed on the phone. So if you have it installed on your device as well, then you’ll have to Force Stop the app. Here’s how it could be done:
- Head over to Settings > Apps > All Apps > Amazon Kindle.
- Then select Force Stop > OK in the confirmation prompt.
- Now check if it removes the blue music icon from your Galaxy smartwatch.
NOTE: Apart from Kindle, Plex and YouTube have also proven to be the culprits in some cases. So if you are still facing the issue after force-stopping Kindle, then try force-stopping Plex and YouTube as well and check if it spells out success.
FIX 2: Turn off WiFi
In some cases, just turning off the WiFi also seems to get the job done. So do give it a try and see if it works out in your favor.
FIX 3: Disconnect from Hub
Click on the music icon and it should bring up the media controls, giving you details on what could be playing or what it thinks is playing. If you have a Google Home Hub, then it could well be the case that it’s playing from there. So just disconnect it from the hub and check out the results.
FIX 4: Disable Wearable Music App
If none of the aforementioned methods spelled out success, then your last course of action should be to disable the Wearabe Music App from your watch. For that, set up ADB on your watch using this guide and then use the below command to disable the app:
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.samsung.android.wearable.musicThat’s it. These were the various methods to remove the blue music icon from your Galaxy smartwatch. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
