You'll know playlists, albums, or podcasts in your Spotify library are downloaded on your Apple Watch if you see a green arrow next to their titles, just like you do on your iPhone. You can check on the progress of your audio downloads via the "Downloads" section on your watch's Spotify app.
To start, choose a playlist, album, or podcast that you'd like to download to your watch, then tap the ellipsis (
How to Download Spotify Tracks to Your Apple Watch Apple Watch models do not have much storage space, so " podcast quality" Spotify music makes sense when users have large playlists to sync. In layman's terms, the songs you listen to on your Apple Watch will not be as high of quality as on iPhone, where songs can reach as high as 320 kbps. This is big news, but there's always a catch songs are capped at 96 kbps, a low bit rate. Don't Miss: Set Spotify as Siri's Preferred Audio Player in iOS 14.5 for Music, Podcasts & Audiobooks.
That changes now: Spotify announced on just two days after Deezer released offline playback on Apple Watch - that you can choose to stream music from the watchOS app over Wi-Fi or cellular, or you can download tracks and podcasts for offline listening just like you can on iOS. In the short amount of time that Spotify has been available on the watch, the one big drawback was that it didn't let you download tracks for local playback, something that's helpful when you're out for a run or at the gym and don't have any internet access to stream music. Spotify has only offered streaming music on the Apple Watch since November 2020, something Apple Music has had since October 2017. So I guess the issue might be that the watch app has to stream directly once before it will permit downloads? That is definitely not how it worked on my old watch/pre-watchos 8.1, so I'm still going to assume there's an unexpected bug.The Apple Watch is rapidly becoming a standalone device that you can use without an iPhone or internet connection, and Deezer and Spotify have just helped make that even more true by adding support for offline playback on the watch. I was able to download normally via the phone app after that. At that point, I noticed that the "Downloading." message on the watch was gone - it said something about adding music via the main app. It had a hard time connecting to the airpods but eventually did so after I force quit the app on my phone. Based on one of the suggestions in the main watch download/playback thread, I actually tried to get it to stream from the watch itself to my airpods. After a little while, I got the notification on the watch that streaming was available. I went to the watch app and noted that the "Downloading." message was still there. I logged out, uninstalled from my phone, rebooted both phone and watch, re-downloaded on phone (reinstall on the watch occured automatically), and then logged back into the app on phone. In messing around, I was able to get it to work again. I'm assuming it's a bug in iOS 15.1, watchOS 8.1, or the Spotify app. I don't recall manually initiating a download to my old watch after it was on 8.1. However, these downloads were initially done prior to watchOS 8.1. updating to Spotify app 8.6.78 (issue continues).īefore I got my new watch, my old watch (series 4) was updated to watchOS 8.1 and had downloaded songs in that section of the watch app. trying from a cellular data connection (on phone). trying from a different wifi connection.
Click to go to the Spotify profile in the App Store Click to go to the Spotify profile in Google Play Step 3: Click Install Step 4: Once installed, open the Spotify desktop app. Step 2: Search Spotify and click on the application.
unpairing and repairing the watch (and choosing to set up watch as new, not restore from backup). But as there are solutions for those problems there is also a solution to this Spotify problem also. logging out and uninstalling the app on the phone and then reinstalling the app and logging back in on the phone. logging out of and logging back into the app on the phone. Download to Apple Watch not appearing on Spotify Find the music and podcast you want to download on your watch Select the playlist, album, or podcast and. uninstalling and reinstalling the app on the watch. force quitting the app on both watch and phone. leaving watch and phone on chargers next to each other with the Spotify app open on both (and periodically waking watch up so that it registers as active). For reference, the old watch is removed from all my Apple accounts, erased, and sold. It’s not the same as the ongoing issue (songs get stuck at the first download) - the downloads section in the watch app just says "Loading." forever.
I got a new watch, which is running the latest version of watchOS, and it will not start downloading songs to the Spotify app on the watch.
IPhone 13 Pro Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS only, not cellular)
Songs not downloading to Apple Watch at all (stuck.