Spotify has introduced that it’s bringing the flexibility to obtain playlists, albums, and podcasts on Apple Watch for offline listening. Users shall be required to have a Spotify Premium account and an Apple Watch Series 3 or later to expertise downloads choice. 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 analogous choice 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 said in a press release.
Users with Apple Watch Series 3 and later working on watchOS 6.0 or later (advisable 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 latest version of the Spotify app on their iPhone.
Once the conditions are in place, you may have to decide on the Download to Apple Watch choice by urgent the three dots (…) button in 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.
Just a little inexperienced arrow shall be accessible subsequent to the names of the playlists, albums, and podcasts which can be downloaded in your Apple Watch. All it’s essential 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 can even use Siri in your Apple Watch to play songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts. You can even mark certainly one of your music tracks as ‘favorite’, ask ‘what’s presently enjoying’, or make changes comparable to management quantity, skip observe, play, or pause a track utilizing Siri.
Spotify says the brand new expertise shall be accessible to all eligible Apple Watch customers globally over the approaching weeks.
Earlier this week, Spotify introduced that it was bringing support for offline playlists and podcasts to Wear OS units. That replace is, nonetheless, but to succeed in customers.