Can Apple Watch play music through its built in speaker?

Proverbs3Five wrote:

.. please post if someone has a way so that I can play my synced music from my watch also while running and not have to carry my 2 pound iPhone with me. Thanks!

As I hoped to explain in my previous reply, it is not possible to play music from the synced playlist through the speaker on Apple Watch.

Your watch can instead be paired with Bluetooth headphones for listening to music when you run, without needing to take your iPhone along.

More information and instructions:

Listen to music on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Use Bluetooth accessories with your Apple Watch - Apple Support

It is not currently possible to play music from the Music app via the built-in speaker on Apple Watch.

If you would like to submit a feature request to Apple, then you can do so here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html

I WAS able to play music directly through the Apple Watch speakers the first day I got the watch. Sound quality was impressive and I was looking forward to using this feature in my own work outs.

That evening it prompted an update and now I need to pair Bluetooth headphones.

Apple support was unable to give me a reason for this. But IT IS POSSIBLE! I sent feedback into Apple and I hope others are doing he same sovthey add this feature back on the next update.

It IS possible as both my husband and I listened to about 30 seconds of the song "jungle" by x-ambassadors on my watch through the speaker. I was able to increase and decrease the volume using the crown dial. We both heard it. The sound quality was fine. Similar to listening to someone on your watch through a phone call.

There is one way... I previously had the same idea that you had because of lack of Bluetooth headphones. The way I do it is dowload the song and sync it to my mac. Then I use the MP4 music file and send it to my number (me) through my mac and then open it on my Apple Watch in the messages app. When done correctly the music should come out of the Apple Watchs built in speakers... hope this helped.

-officialianoneill

I can confirm you are wrong, because I too was astounded when I first got my watch and was able to listen to music from it. I bought it when it first came out in Australia. Absolutely no hazy memory, I am not a misguided or delusional idiot...it was working and now it no longer is given as a function.

My watch also played music from its speaker ... but I bought Bluetooth headphones the same day and paired them. It's a over year later and I just started jogging again and forgot my headphones and there's no way to change it back.

This happened to me too. And because I just got the watch I wasn't sure how to stop the music (I was in a boring work meeting at the time). Took me a few embarrassing seconds to work it out but I did stop it. Since then though I haven't been able to get it to play from the watch speakers again. So, IT IS possible because it happened to me.

It may be a glitch, but I have had music play through the watch speaker on a few occasions during a workout. It was always after placing my AirPods back in the case while music was playing, while not being connected to an iPhone. It doesn't sound terrible, definitely decent to run with.

I too was able to play music through my watch speaker on day one, then never again.

I don't understand why apple doesn't let this function work, I'm not expecting it to sound good, just be nice to use it for referencing sound.

I too just got a 2nd Gen 38mm watch and was playing Pandora for my kids via the watch's built in speaker. The quality wasn't great, but something. I soon was prompted to do an update and can no longer play music from my watch, it goes through my phone only. So no, Lady Thor is not crazy. I cannot find a solution as of yet but please post if someone has a way so that I can play my synced music from my watch also while running and not have to carry my 2 pound iPhone with me. Thanks!

Thanks for your reply. Yes I am aware of this and understand that you currently cannot play audio through the watch speakers but it was possible previously. Maybe there was a glitch between iOS updates which allowed for this and once it updated again the feature was no longer available.

Mine was never able to do this but then again I've never put any music on my Watch. Phone calls sound poor enough on that poor little transducer I would hate to try to run and listen to music from that speaker.

Hi

If you would like to submit a feature request to Apple, then you can do so here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html

Hi

It is not possible to play music from the synced playlist through the speaker on Apple Watch.

Your watch can instead be paired with Bluetooth headphones for listening to music when you run.

More information:

Listen to music on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Use Bluetooth accessories with your Apple Watch - Apple Support