Apple Watch Offline Spotify Music

One of the main reasons why I bought the Apple watch was to work out and listen to Spotify without my phone. I am frustrated finding out now that I can’t. I am also considering returning the watch.

Dannyboi2020 wrote:

i have series 6 watch cellular and am I phone 11 on virgin with unlimited data. How do I get the data plan from my phone to work on my watch so when I run I don’t have to take my phone

Legally you do not. Spotify does not support the Apple Watch as a music playback device.

Pandora and Apple Music fully support the Apple Watch.

And you can transfer music stored on your iPhone to your Apple Watch.

Ask Spotify when they plan on supporting the Apple Watch.

The fact that spotify has devoloped apps with offline music for both garmins and galaxy watches tells you that the problem is probably with apple. Apple watch is the most popular smart watch so it wouldn't make sense for spotify not to try to support it. On the other hand, spotify is the biggest competitor to apple music so it would make sence for apple to not allow full functionality for it.

I would have bought an apple watch without a second thought if it wasnt for the lacking spotify support. But the lack of it actually made me find the galaxy watch active 2 instead which I now love so I'm not really disappointed

Nope. Apple is very anti competitive and make you use Apple Music to do that. You can only stream Spotify. A work around, you can sync music you own from a laptop to your phone and then sync the playlist/songs from your phone to the watch locally.

rj2714 wrote:

Nope. Apple is very anti competitive and make you use Apple Music to do that. You can only stream Spotify. A work around, you can sync music you own from a laptop to your phone and then sync the playlist/songs from your phone to the watch locally.

Then how does Pandora stream music on the Apple Watch?

I never said it couldn’t stream. You can stream Spotify, iHeartradio, Pandora etc. You just can’t download them to the watch itself to play offline (i.e. a runner like me that wants to run with no phone and has GPS only watch model) To listen to music you need to have it stored physically on the watch itself. The only way to do that is a subscription to Apple Music or physical media like a CD that you have loaded into your iTunes library and sync with phone/watch

That is a Spotify decision

Pandora allows offline playlists being transferred to the Apple Watch.

music you actually own (or managed to get on your iPhone), independent of Apple Music, can be transferred to your Apple Watch (for example, you have transferred Music CDs to your iPhone via your personal computer, or some other means of transferring music to your iPhone.

Apple Music is not the only way to get music on your Apple Watch.

Yes, you can now. You can get the new Watchify app for your Apple Watch so you can use Spotify without having your phone with you. You have to have Spotify premium though. I’ve just downloaded it and tested it and it does work.

I searched Watchify, and I can't find any evidence that it allows you to DOWNLOAD spotify music. In order to play the music without your phone with you --- meaning you leave the house, and you don't pay extra for Cell service on your watch, you would need the songs downloaded onto the device.

It's really sad that Apple is blocking their biggest competitor to Apple Music, Spotify, from doing offline playback.

BlueMaserati wrote:

I searched Watchify, and I can't find any evidence that it allows you to DOWNLOAD spotify music. In order to play the music without your phone with you --- meaning you leave the house, and you don't pay extra for Cell service on your watch, you would need the songs downloaded onto the device.

It's really sad that Apple is blocking their biggest competitor to Apple Music, Spotify, from doing offline playback.

It is Spotify's decision, not Apple's.

Pandora, a competitor, supports streaming, offline playback, Siri integration, etc...

Wish Spotify streamed on Apple Watch? The time has arrived for many

https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/03/spotify-apple-watch-streaming

This should help;

https://www.wareable.com/apple/how-to-use-spotify-on-apple-watch-6609

That's correct;

Ask them why here;

https://www.spotify.com/uk/about-us/contact/

What if I have gps + cellular should I be able to play music on my Apple Watch —> headphones?

it has been over a year for the watch app and spotify still have to support offline playing in apple watch. i waited and then moved on! you should too, man.