How to download Spotify playlists to your Apple Watch

How to download Spotify playlists to your Apple tree Watch

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You could be forgiven for thinking that Spotify already allowed you to download music to your Apple Sentry, but in fact, that feature had recently only arrived. The much-requested feature is useful for anyone who wants to go for a run without a telephone swinging around in their pocket.

This feature, unsurprisingly, is express to Spotify premium subscribers. Information technology'southward why in our Spotify Free vs Premium slice, offline listening support was a major gene in our evaluation. Luckily, everyone can already control their Spotify playlist from their Watch, and that's not changing, only being able to straight download music and podcasts from Spotify is new.

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Firstly, you'll demand to notice the music you desire to download. It might exist easiest to brand a playlist called "Watch" for music, say. You lot can download any playlist, album or podcast by pressing the three dots at the meridian of the screen and selecting "download to Apple Lookout man".

You lot'll see a dark-green arrow adjacent to songs or podcasts once tracks have been loaded on to the lookout. You tin also check on the download progress in the "downloads" section of the Watch app. While we haven't been able to check nevertheless, presumably switching selections out will be handled in the same way, as space is limited on the Apple Lookout man.

This functionality will work on whatever Apple Lookout from the Series iii on up. You lot'll demand to be running at least WatchOS half-dozen. Information technology's also important to brand sure y'all have the latest version of the app. In our experience, sometimes apps don't motorcar-update perfectly on fourth dimension, so you might want to check the app store.

Spotify too says it's rolling the feature out to subscribers "over the coming weeks," so if you lot don't have it yet, you lot may have to wait a scrap for it to appear. Until then, you can always break out your Sony Walkman and pop in your "Dookie" cassette tape by Green Day.

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Ian has been involved in technology journalism since 2007, originally writing about AV hardware back when LCDs and plasma TVs were simply gaining popularity. Nearly 15 years on, he remains as excited every bit ever about how tech can make your life improve. Ian is the editor of T3.com but has also regularly contributed to Tom's Guide.