Right now, the Spotify app offers no LTE streaming straight from the Apple Watch to a pair of headphones. And we wouldn’t hold your breath on that arriving any time soon. Offline playback. Follow these steps to use Spotify on your watch: 1. Go to the Apple Watch on your iPhone. Search for the Spotify in App Store. Install the app and open it on your Apple Watch. After the successful installation of the app you can add music through the app itself. The app let you pause, skip forward and back the music playing from the watch.

Apple Watch users, rejoice: Spotify is now available for your wrist.

The music-streaming service has finally added an Apple Watch app allowing users to not only get music playback controls, but also access playlists, favorite songs, and 'DJ from your watch' with Spotify Connect speakers.

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Spotify's Apple Watch app has been long in the making. Although you could previously access playback controls like play/pause, previous/next track, and volume on your Apple Watch, the smartwatch's default controls were pretty barebones.

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The new Apple Watch app lets you do all of the above, but with just a touch more granular controls. For example, you rewind 15 seconds on a podcast, view playlists and shuffle tracks, favorite songs, and even connect to Spotify Connect devices such as a WiFi speaker or laptop.

It's a step in the right direction to giving Apple Watch apps a much-needed boost, but it's still missing one major feature we all want: cellular music streaming. As it stands, Apple Music is the only music streaming service that can stream over a cellular connection.

Nothing against Apple Music — it's a robust music streaming service that's gotten much better over the years — but Spotify is still the preferred music streaming service for many who prefer not to live in Apple's walled ecosystem.

The new app will suffice for now, I guess. To get the Apple Watch app, make sure your smartwatch has been updated to the latest version of watchOS, and then go update the Spotify app from the App Store on your paired iOS device. Spotify says it'll be pushed out to Spotify users 'over the coming week' so if you don't see it show up on your Apple Watch, hang tight. It's coming!

Spotify is starting to roll out streaming audio support for Apple Watch, meaning users will be able to listen to music or podcasts without an iPhone nearby.

Although Spotify initially launched on watchOS back in 2018, that app was largely limited to playback control of other devices running full-fledged versions of the service.

More recently, however, Spotify in early 2020 began to test direct-to-Apple Watch streaming, enabling content streaming without a partner iPhone.

Technically, the feature is still in beta, but Spotify confirmed to TechCrunch that it is in the midst of 'rolling out' as of Tuesday.

The standalone streaming feature will allow users to stream music or podcasts via Wi-Fi or cellular connectivity directly from their wrist to a pair of Bluetooth headphones. That will be useful in cases when carrying an iPhone isn't convenient, such as during a run.

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Although Spotify is beginning to introduce the feature across its user base, it may take some time for standalone streaming to become available to everyone.

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