The Spotify app has been on Apple Watch for years now, but it’s really a glorified remote control for the app running on your iPhone. That’s changing right now, with Spotify pushing a server-side change to let you stream music directly to your Apple Watch.
Spotify is finally rolling out an update to its Apple Watch app that’ll allow you to stream songs directly from the device. Previously, the app acted like a remote to the iPhone app, and you. According to iPhone-Ticker.de (via Google Translate), the Spotify Apple Watch app is trialing streaming support with select users. The app, which launched in November 2018, offers Siri support. Spotify confirmed today it has begun to roll out support for standalone streaming on its Apple Watch app. The feature had been spotted in testing back in September, and arrives roughly two years.
Yes, if you have an LTE-enabled Apple Watch, you never have to carry your iPhone while you’re out jogging. Multiple Twitter users have been showing off the new features, which is still technically in beta. Check out the tweet below from user imPatrickT, who spotted the feature yesterday. Pcdj dex 2.0. I’m more jealous of the cellular-enabled VW, though.
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— patrick. (@imPatrickT) November 3, 2020
Apple Watch App To Control Spotify App
The Spotify streaming feature on Apple Watch works on cellular data or on WiFi, so you can use it at the gym as well if you only have the WiFi version. https://reviewsgenerous.weebly.com/microsoft-office-product-key-2016-generator.html. There doesn’t appear to be any search field though, so you’ll have to use Siri to find new tracks to listen to. Better load up your Spotify with some killer playlists before you go on that run.
It’ll also show any recently played content, so that’s one way to get your favorite tracks onto your Apple Watch without fighting with Siri.
As we said earlier, this is a server-side switch, so if you can’t see the feature on your Apple Watch yet, just wait. It’ll be on the way.
What do you think? Do you see yourself using this new Spotify feature? Let us know down below in the comments or carry the discussion over to our Twitter or Facebook.
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Siri is indeed getting smarter in iOS 12, just as had been previously rumored. Apple revealed a bunch of new features coming to its voice-based assistant at its WWDC keynote earlier this week, including a new Shortcuts feature that will let iPhone and iPad users initiate app-based actions via voice. Siri’s automation feature is based on Workflow, a startup that was recently acquired by Apple.
A new discovery reveals that Siri will be able to control streaming apps in iOS 12, other than Apple Music, thanks to help from Shortcuts. TechCrunch reports that at a WWDC developer session this week, the company detailed a Play Media intent that’s coming to Siri Shortcuts.
Download the book of enoch. Users will be able to use Siri to play audio and video from third-party apps like Spotify, for example.
Before you get too excited, you should know that Siri’s control over Spotify and other streaming apps won’t offer an experience as rich as Apple Music. Developers will have to integrate support for Shortcuts into their apps, and users will have to build their own Shortcuts recipes. https://brighttree153.weebly.com/apache-24-download-mac.html. But it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
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The following clip shows you how you can create a Siri Shortcut using Workflow to play a favorite playlist on Spotify.
Well that's awesome pic.twitter.com/4iP9phUHcR
— Finn Gaida (@fga) June 5, 2018
Once set up on iPhone, the Shortcut would work on HomePod too, but you still need the iPhone to make it all possible. It’s not the full Spotify support that users have been clamoring for, and having to set it up yourself with Siri Shortcuts is a bit of a pain. It’s better than nothing, though!