Apple Watch Offline Spotify Music

With Spotify? No.

Spotify does not support the Apple Watch.

The best you can do with Spotify are hacks that are not supported by Spotify.

Pandora and Apple are fully supporting the Apple Watch.

Some other music services support offline music.

You will have to talk to Spotify about their future Apple Watch plans.

Maybe you said Spotify, and the person on the other end just heard "music" and did not realize their mistake.

There are hacks for Spotify, but they are unsupported. Google can be your friend if you want to continue using Spotify.

And this is my complaint. That i was given blatant false info into buying something. I purchased it from John Lewis not from Apple, so I’m unable to return it. But I don’t understand the point of having a ‘genius’ teams to talk through the products and then provide completely inaccurate information. I asked how I go about writing a complaint about it. It took three hours, and three different Different people to tell me to WRITE A LETTER to ireland. Baffling

Apple sales team. I called them before I ordered the watch and asked ‘can I run with the watch without taking my phone with me and still listen to Spotify?’ He said, ‘yes, you can download up to 500 songs to the phone’.

You seem to be a ambulatory person... As you know Apple is using closed platform. Take e.g. Samsung’s Tizen, offers offline playlist. So I will say the question is why, not how. I’m not accusing them for blocking the streaming, they simply just don’t allow it. I guess their answer could be something like this: Due to GDPR and Cyber Security blablabla. I’m sure it will be available eventually, but we are on S5 now. They can at least offer offline playlists. Streaming consumes more battery, thus I’m happy with offline.

Hehe, me neither.... Just frustrated over the delay. Perhaps it’s Spotify to blame, and not Apple. Then again I suspect that that Apple will take their time before they approve the application. Spotify is for sure the biggest competitor to AM. Why open the door before you need to...

This is my take on this, maybe the application is already sent a couple of years back...

Anyways, cheers, have a good one.

Well noted. I was not aware it was that late. I have no idea if the process have been started or not. It was more related to the processing time for the approval.

I guess we cannot expect anything soon then... (yawn)

Spotify has been fighting since 2016 for Apple Watch streaming functionality. Since Apple owns the App Store, they kept implementing terms that limited their competitors like Spotify. See Spotify's timeline with Apple here: https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/

As of June 16, Apple is finally under investigation for violating competition rules. Let's hope after this investigation that Spotify users can finally directly stream music from their watches.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/business/apple-app-store-european-union-antitrust.html

The EU complaint, which I already mentioned, doesn’t appear to be doing to well lately. Your link is from Spotify, do you really think it is fair and balanced? Apple will only respond directly to the EU and has not set up a competing propaganda site.

It's ironic that you critique the link for being partial to Spotify because every response I have seen you provide, within this thread, has unabashedly leaned in favor of Apple. Why would it make sense for Spotify to delay providing the app to Apple? That would incentivize Apple Watch users to transition over to Apple Music so that they could have the functionality mentioned in the original question. It makes much more sense for Apple to block entry to direct competitors to give Apple Music an Apple Watch monopoly of sorts.

Your Pandora point is moot. Pandora, Apple Music, and Spotify do not compete for the same demographic of customers. Users aged 55+ make up 22% of Pandora's user-base, whereas that same demographic makes up just 11% of Spotify's. Also the age demographic of 18-24 (the customers that AM and Spotify are after) makes up just 11% of Pandora's user-base, but for Spotify it makes up a whopping 26% of their user-base.

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.

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.

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

Who from Apple gave you blatantly false information? I must have missed that part.

And he is correct, you can download up to 500 songs to the iPhone. But if it were me I would have said, "you didn't specifically answer my question." Or done some quick searches on the internet.