How to Listen to Pandora on Apple Watch Offline

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on May 18, 2023

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Apple Watch is always the best smartwatch for iPhone owners. It is a great experience to listen to music on your Apple Watch on the go, especially if you don't want to take your iPhone with you. Thankfully, Apple Watch has cooperated with some famous streaming music apps, such as Apple Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio, as well as Pandora.

Pandora is a popular stream music services in United States, offering millions of songs, thousands of live radio stations, podcasts, and playlists. With a Pandora account, you can leave your iPhone behind and still listen to your favorite music on your Apple Watch! However, there are some limitations on the playback of Pandora on Apple Watch due to different subscriptions. In this article, we're going to show you how to listen to Pandora on Apple Watch offline.

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Way 1. Play Pandora Offline on Apple Watch with Subscription

You can play Pandora music on your Apple Watch online or offline. We'd like to quickly point out that the Offline Mode is only available to Pandora Plus ($4.99 / month), Pandora Premium ($9.99 / month), and Premium Family ($14.99 / month) subscribers. If you have a paid account, you can download Pandora music to Apple Watch for offline listening. Now perform the below steps to set up Pandora on your Apple Watch, and use Pandora on Apple Watch.

Preparation:

• Apple Watch running watchOS 5 or later.
• iPhone running iOS 12 or later.
• The latest version of Pandora app.

How to Set Up Pandora on Apple Watch?

1. 1 Download Pandora App to Apple Watch from iPhone
Step 1. On your iPhone, go to App Store and install the Pandora app.

Step 2. Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, scroll down in the "My Watch" tab, find Pandora under "Available Apps."

Step 3. Press "Install" to add the Pandora app on your Apple Watch.

1.2 Download Pandora App on Apple Watch Directly

Step 1. Press the "Digital Crown" on your watch, and select the "App Store".

Step 2. Swipe to the top of the screen, you can use Scribble or Dictate to Search for the Pandora app.

Step 3. Click "Get" to download Pandora app to your Apple Watch.

How to Stream Pandora Music on Apple Watch?

Step 1. Turn on your watch, go to the Home screen.

Step 2. Scroll down the screen and select "Playing from…"

Step3. When prompted to choose a device, click either "Watch" or "Phone", then start playing any song you like.

How to Listen to Pandora Offline on Apple Watch?

Step 1. Open the Pandora app on your iPhone, sign with your subscription account.

Step 2. Play any song, and rap the three dots > "Download".

Step 3. Then paid your iPhone and Apple Watch through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

Step 4. Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, select "General" > "Background App Refresh" > "Pandora"

Step 5. Now charge your Apple Watch, and all offline content from the Pandora app will automatically sync from your iPhone.

Step 6. After that, launch the Pandora app on your watch, you can listen to any song in offline mode.

Way 2. Listen to Pandora Music on Apple Watch Offline for Free

To listen to Pandora music offline on your Apple Watch, you need to upgrade to Plus or Premium on Pandora. So, is there any way to play Pandora offline on Apple Watch without subscription? Of Course, what you need is a third-party Pandora music converter.

As we all known, Pandora uses lossy AAC to encode its music tracks, which determines that all songs are only accessible within the Pandora app. On the other hand, Apple Watch supports to play plain AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, WAV, AIFF, Audible and Apple Lossless audios. To solve it, you can convert Pandora music to Apple Watch supported audio formats by virtue of a third-party tool. Here we highly recommend UkeySoft Pandora Music Converter.

UkeySoft Pandora Music Converter is a powerful music downloader and converter for Pandora users. It is open to all Pandora users, whether you are Pandora Free, Pandora Plus or Pandora Premium, it can help you download tracks, albums, playlists & podcasts from Pandora to your local computer. It is an ideal tool for converting Pandora songs to Apple Watch supported formats like MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF on Mac and Windows.

Additionally, it will preserve the original music quality and ID3 tags info for Pandora music tracks. It comes with a built-in Pandora web player, so you can browse your Pandora library to find and add any content you want. After conversion, users can easily sync the Pandora songs to iPhone for offline playback on Apple Watch, without the Pandora app needed!

Features of UkeySoft Pandora Music Converter:

• Download songs from Pandora Free, Pandora Plus, Pandora Premium.
• Download Pandora songs, albums, playlists, podcasts to computer.
• Convert Pandora songs to MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, M4A, and AIFF.
• Built-in Pandora web player, music player, music manager.
• Batch download Pandora songs at 10X higher speed.
• Keep original audio quality while retaining ID3 tags.
• Transfer Pandora songs to iPhone, Android, MP3 players, etc.
• Play Pandora offline on Apple Watch, Huawei Watch, Samsung Watch, etc.

2.1 Convert Pandora Music to MP3, AAC, WAV for Apple Watch

Step 1. Download and Launch UkeySoft Pandora Music Converter
Click the Download button, download and install the UkeySoft Pandora Music Converter on your Mac or Windows PC. Then launch the program, you need to log into your Pandora Free/Plus/Premium account.

Step 2. Customize the Output Settings
Then click the "Settings" button (a gear icon), and you could adjust the output audio settings. You can select MP3, AAC, WAV as the output format for your Apple Watch.

To make it easy to manage the output Pandora songs, you can sort the output songs by artist or album.

Step 3. Add Pandora Songs/Albums/Playlists
Once all the settings are completed, you need to import Pandora songs to the converter. Go to the home page, choose any song, album or playlist, and click the red "+" icon in the right side. Also, you can use the search function to find any song.

All songs in the playlist will be selected by default, check and confirm the Pandora songs you want.

Step 4. Download and Convert Pandora Music to MP3
After selecting the songs, click the "Convert" button to export the selected Pandora songs to the local folder.

Step 5. Get the Converted Pandora MP3 Songs
When the conversion is finished, click the "History" (a clock icon) to view the output Pandora songs.

Click the "blue folder" to locate the output folder on your computer.

2.2 Listen to Pandora Music Offline on Your Apple Watch

1. Sync the Converted Pandora Songs to iPhone with iTunes/Music
- Open iTunes or Music app on PC/Mac, create a new playlist, import the converted Pandora music files to it.
- Connect your iPhone with your computer using a USB cable.
- Select your iPhone in the left side, sync the Pandora songs to your iPhone.

2. Sync & Add Pandora Songs to Apple Watch from iPhone
- Charge Apple Watch, and pair your Apple Watch with iPhone.
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
- Tap "My Watch" > "Music" > "Add Music".
- Find the Pandora song you want to sync, and tap the "+" icon next to it.

3. Enjoy Pandora Offline on Apple Watch
- Power on your Apple Watch, and launch the "Music" app.
- Scroll through Pandora songs stored on your watch.
- Play any song you like and connect your headphones or AirPods for listening via Bluetooth.
- Now you can offline playback your favorite Pandora music tracks on your watch without your phone and Premium.

Now download this powerful UkeySoft Pandora Music Converter and have a try!

Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

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