How to Stream Spotify Music on Apple Watch

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 16, 2022

Summary
Want to know how to stream Spotify music on Apple Watch? Let’s reading this article and learn an efficiency way to play Spotify music on Apple Watch without iPhone/iPad connection.

"I have a Spotify Free account, how to stream Spotify music on Apple Watch? I want to offline listen Spotify music without taking my iPhone, is there any way to sync Spotify music to Apple Watch for offline listening?”

“I want to listen to Spotify on Apple Watch without iPhone, how to download Spotify music to Apple Watch without premiun?”

CONTENTS

Way 1: How to Stream Spotify Music on Apple Music
Way 2: How to Stream Spotify Music on Apple Watch without Premium
Part 1: How to Download and Convert Spotify Music to MP3
Part 2: Stream the Converted Spotify Music to Apple Watch without iPhone

Spotify officially released a special developed app for Apple Watch in 2018, it makes possible to play Spotify music on Apple Watch. In the early version, people still have to listen Spotify music on Apple Watch with the help of iPhone. But soon after, Spotify’s Apple Watch added the ability to easily control your Spotify music on Apple Watch to select songs/playlist and add songs/playlist to your Spotify library by asking Siri, therefore, users can now stream and listen to Spotify music without phone connection.

But Spotify just allows Premium user to download Spotify songs, playlist and albums for offline playback. Although the Premium user is able to download Spotify music on their local disk, but they still can’t stream the downloaded Spotify songs to any device for offline playback, worse, users can’t offline play music after the Premium subscription expired.

Let’s teach you two ways to stream Spotify songs/playlist to Apple Watch, the second method is useful for all Spotify users, both Free and Premium subscribers are able to download Spotify songs, playlist, podcast, and radio to Apple Watch. What’s more, you can save Spotify music offline playback on Apple Watch forever!

Way 1: How to Stream Spotify Music on Apple Music

System Requirements:

To get Spotify app on Apple Watch, you’ll need:

iPhone running iOS 12 or above.
Apple Watch on watch OS6 or above.
Insall the latest of Spotify app on iPhone and Apple Watch

Spotify app available for Apple Music now, both free and premium Spotify users can use Spotify on Apple Watch(watch OS6). If you want to use Spotify on your Apple Watch, make sure you already upgraded the latest version of Spotify app on your iPhone.

Note: Make sure you’ve paired your Apple Watch to your iPhone with Bluetooth.

1. Launch the Watch app on your ‌iPhone‌.
2. In the My Watch tab, under the heading Installed on Apple Watch, check that Spotify appears in the list. If you can't see it, scroll down to the Available Apps section and tap the Install button next to Spotify.

3. Launch the Spotify app on the Apple Watch after the installation.
4. Tap the Device menu in the bottom right corner of the music player screen.
5. If your watch is streaming feature supported, you'll see your Apple Watch at the top of the list. Select it.
6. Ask Siri to select any Spotify songs, playlist or album that you want to listen to.

Now, with the Spotify Apple Watch app, you can easily control your Spotify music, select and add songs to your Spotify library, and play Spotify music on Apple Watch.

For Premium users, you can use Spotify offline mode on Apple Watch, but, for Free users, you only allowed stream Spotify music on Apple Watch online. Don’t worry, god will open a door for you, even the Free users are able to enjoy Spotify songs on Apple Watch offline, you need to convert Spotify music to MP3 and stream them to Apple Watch, please keep reading the following Spotify to Apple Watch conversion guide.

Way 2: How to Stream Spotify Music on Apple Watch without Premium

Although it's more easily to enjoy music with Spotify app for Apple Watch, but Free users cannot offline listen to music. In order to play Spotify music on Apple Watch offline, you must to convert Spotify music to DRM-free MP3 format. But how? Here you are recommended to use a powerful Spotify Music Converter to download and convert Spotify music to MP3, so that you can stream them to Apple Watch for offline playing.

UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter is an efficient Spotify music downloader and converter, which not only can help you convert Spotify music to MP3, M4A, WAV, and FLAC, etc. but also can help you easily download Spotify songs on local disk, then you can easily transfer the downloaded Spotify songs to Apple Watch for offline playback, no need phone connection and cellular data connection, even if you are using Free Spotify account. Moreover, the ID3 tags of songs will be kept after conversion, with its built-in advanced conversion technology, you can convert Spotify music with 5X conversion speed, that means it won’t take a long time to finish the conversion. But most importantly for the music lover, it allows users to customize audio parameters like Bitrate, Sample Rate to improve the output audio quality.

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Part 1: How to Download and Convert Spotify Music to MP3

Step 1. Launch UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter
Launch the UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter, and Spotify app will launch at the same time.

Step 2. Import Spotify music to the Converter
You can import all your Spotify music from your library as you want to download and convert. Firstly, you can click on “Add Files” button on the top-left area. Then drags songs, playlist, albums from Spotify app to UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter. Or you can import the songs by copy the song/playlist’s link and paste them on the search bar on the software.

Step 3. Select Spotify Music to Download
After the software analyzing your input links, then you can select the Spotify songs and click “Add” button to download them.

In the next interface, after adding Spotify songs/playlist/albums to Spotify Music Converter, you can see almost all ID3 tags of the songs, and you can also to edit the ID3 tags of the songs, including artist, tittle, artist, year, artwork, etc.

Step 4. Select Output Format
Click the “OPTIONS” > “ADVANCED” in the interface to select an output format. The software supports converting Spotify playlist, songs, albums to MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, M4A or AIFF format.
Here, we will recommend you convert the Spotify songs, albums or playlist to MP3 format. Because MP3 audio format is most popular audio format for most media player.

Notes: You also can improve the output quality as you want by change the sample rate or bit rate: 320 Kbps, 256 Kbps and 128 Kbps.

Step 5. Convert Spotify Songs/Albums/Playlist to MP3
Click the “Convert” button, the software to start convert Spotify music to MP3. During the converting process, it will help you remove the DRM protection from Spotify files, then you can enjoy them freely.

Step 6. Get MP3 Songs
Click the "History" menu to locate the output MP3 files after the conversion done. Then, you can transfer the downloaded Spotify music(.mp3 files) to your Apple Watch for offline listening.

Step 7. Transfer the Converted Spotify Music to iPhone/iPad
Now all Spotify songs are saved onto the computer, now you can transfer the converted Spotify songs to iPhone for streaming to Apple Watch. To to sync the converted Spotify music to iPhone/iPad, you can use iTunes or third-party iOS Transfer tool, here is a simple guide about how to transfer Spotify music to iPhone.

Part 2: Sync the DRM-free Spotify Songs to Apple Watch without iPhone

1. Make sure the Bluetooth on your iPhone is on. If not, go to the Settings > Bluetooth to turn it on.
2. Then launch the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. And tap My Watch section.
3. Tap on Music > Add Music..., and choose the Spotify songs to sync.

4. Open your Apple Watch device and then launch the Music app.
5. Tap the watch ion and set it as the music source. Then tap the Playlists.
6. Select the playlist on My Apple Watch and start playing the Spotify music.
Now, you can listen to the Spotify music on the Apple Watch without bring your iPhone nearby.

Conclusion

Althout Spotify not allow Free users play music offline, but, with the help of UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter, all users can convert Spotify music and transfer them to Apple Watch very easily, you can offline listen to Spotify music whether you’re cycling, working out, partying, relaxing or flying without iPhone by connected to your Bluetooth-enabled earphones. Most Importantly, no matter you're a free or premium user, you can download Spotify songs to listen anywhere and any time. Please do not hesitate to download the trial version of UkeySoft Spotify Music Converter, you will be bring into a free music zone.

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Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has always had great enthusiasm for writing, programming and web development. He likes writing about software and technology, his works are featured on some tech blogs or forums like Tom's Hardware, CNET, etc.