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Spotify has made an announcement that it is bringing the ability to download playlists, albums, and podcasts on Apple Watch for offline listening, but for this the users will be required to have a Spotify Premium account and an Apple Watch Series 3 or later to experience this new option. Spotify competitor and Apple's in-house music streaming service Apple Music has had an offline playback support on the Apple Watch for quite some time from now, but, several Spotify subscribers have been demanding a similar option since the launch of its app in November 2018, thus laying the path for the same.
Spotify thus made the official statement that, “Starting today, we're beginning to roll out the ability for Premium users to download playlists and podcasts to Apple Watch for offline use."
Users with Apple Watch Series 3 and later which runs on watchOS 6.0 or later (however recommended watchOS 7.1 and up) will be able to access offline music downloads from their Spotify Premium account. Also the users will require to have the latest version of the Spotify app on their iPhone.
Once all the prerequisites are set, all you have to do is choose the Download to Apple Watch option by pressing the three dots (...) button on your favourite playlist, album, or podcast to download your content for offline listening on Apple Watch. Meanwhile you can also check the progress by heading over to the Downloads section on the watch.
A little green arrow will be available next to the names of the playlists, albums, and podcasts that are downloaded on your Apple Watch. Next what you need to do is to connect your headphones to your Apple Watch and start listening to the music without you having to carry your iPhone.
You can also ask Siri on your Apple Watch to play songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts. Besides you can also mark any of the music tracks as ‘favourite', ask ‘what's currently playing', or make adjustments such as volume control, skip track, play, or pause a song with the help of Siri.
Spotify made the statement that the new experience will be available to all eligible Apple Watch users globally over the weeks to come.
Earlier the week, Spotify made an announcement that it was bringing support for offline playlists and podcasts to Wear OS devices. However the update is yet to reach users.
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