Spotify has introduced that it’s bringing the power to obtain playlists, albums, and podcasts on Apple Watch for offline listening. Users might be required to have a Spotify Premium account and an Apple Watch Series 3 or later to expertise downloads possibility. Spotify competitor and Apple’s in-house music streaming service Apple Music has had an offline playback assist on the Apple Watch for fairly a while. However, a number of Spotify subscribers have been demanding an identical possibility for the reason that launch of its app in November 2018.
“Starting today, we’re beginning to roll out the ability for Premium users to download playlists and podcasts to Apple Watch for offline use,” Spotify mentioned in an announcement.
Users with Apple Watch Series 3 and later operating on watchOS 6.0 or later (really useful watchOS 7.1 and up) will have the ability to entry offline music downloads from their Spotify Premium account. This may also require customers to have the newest model of the Spotify app on their iPhone.
Once the conditions are in place, you may have to decide on the Download to Apple Watch possibility by urgent the three dots (…) button on your favorite playlist, album, or podcast to obtain your content material for offline listening on Apple Watch. You may also have the ability to test the progress by heading over to the Downloads part on the watch.
A bit of inexperienced arrow might be out there subsequent to the names of the playlists, albums, and podcasts which might be downloaded on your Apple Watch. All you must do is to attach your headphones to your Apple Watch and begin listening to the music — with out requiring you to hold your iPhone.
You also can use Siri on your Apple Watch to play songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts. You also can mark one in all your music tracks as ‘favorite’, ask ‘what’s at the moment enjoying’, or make changes corresponding to management quantity, skip monitor, play, or pause a tune utilizing Siri.
Spotify says the brand new expertise might be out there to all eligible Apple Watch customers globally over the approaching weeks.
Earlier this week, Spotify introduced that it was bringing assist for offline playlists and podcasts to Wear OS units. That replace is, nevertheless, but to succeed in customers.
