Loading music to a family managed Apple Watch SE

Just for others' future reference...

I connected with Apple Support Chat about this issue and they confirmed that syncing local music to a managed watch is not possible unless you either 1) subscribe to Apple Music streaming or 2) you put the same Apple ID on both the watch and the phone.

The problem, of course, with putting the same Apple ID on the Watch and the iPhone is that then you're sharing calls and messages with your child.

The frustrating thing is that my child's Apple ID is capable of syncing this music on other devices like an iPad that sync directly with my computer. But as it stands, the iPhone's Watch app can only manage the single Apple ID that is in use by the iPhone itself. You're unable to load a child's Apple ID on the iPhone, even sandboxed within the Watch app, so the iPhone is unable to manage any features on a managed watch that depend directly on that unique child's Apple ID.

I've submitted a 'feature request' at their suggestion, for one of two solutions.

Either 1) allow for managing Apple Watch's directly from a Mac, where you can be given more options, or

2) allow the iPhone's Watch app to 'store' more than one Apple ID, so that you can load your child's Apple ID for syncing purposes.

Their reasoning for not allowing this loading of multiple Apple IDs in one Watch app is that it's for privacy purposes because this managed watch feature isn't only used for parent-child relationships, but I digress.

To submit feature requests and feedback, I was given this link:

Product Feedback - Apple

Thanks Chris_C1,

That's what I was afraid of... but to be clear, I'm not interested in enabling streaming for my child's watch.

I only want to sync owned music to my child's watch so that it can be played locally.

There's no way to sync music that I already own to a managed Apple Watch?

Because that IS possible on my own watch.

That is a big missing feature that I don't believe is documented anywhere in the purchase or support documentation.

I would have thought twice about buying an Apple Watch for my child if I knew it couldn't play my music library the way the rest of my devices can.

Thank you SnickZ, but those instructions unfortunately still don't help.

My Watch app on my iPhone lists two watches: my own and my child's.

If I click on my own watch, I see the Music button in the list and I can add Songs and Playlists exactly as expected.

However, if I click on my child's managed watch from my iPhone, the Music button is not listed, exactly as shown in Botanita's screen shot and as described in my original post.

This seems to be a bug, or lacking feature, specifically with a managed watch. I cannot load local music onto the managed watch from my library.