How to Listen Spotify on Apple Watch?

"Can you play Spotify on Apple Watch? When I was trying to listen to Spotify o Apple Watch, Spotify claimed that I had to update the free account to Spotify premium. So I subscribed to Spotify Premium account. I hope that I can stream music from Spotify to Apple Watch for offline listening. But it seems like that my Apple Watch still can't do this. Please create an app for the Apple watch that allows users to change songs and playlists from their watch. It would be perfect for working out and the busy commute." 
- By a Spotify Premium user from Spotify Community.

Most of those people who have an Apple Watch and at the same time are loyal Spotify fans might have the same needs like the above one. You could come across quite a big number of users on Spotify complaining about this. Apple Watch has been out for over 3 years and still there was not official solution to listen to Spotify songs on Apple Watch by Nov. 13th. In this guide, we would like to introduce you 2 ways to listen to Spotify on Apple Watch, including Spotify app for Apple Watch and 3rd-party Spotify to Apple Watch converter tool.

Part 1: Introduction to Apple Watch

Designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple Watch has been widely known around the world ever since its first unveiling in 2015. As a smartwatch line from Apple, Apple Watch incorporates fitness tracking and health-oriented capabilities with integration with iOS and other Apple products and services.

Most features of Apple Watch relies on wireless connection of iPhone 5S or later with iOS 11, like calling and texting. By far, there have been 4 models of Apple Watch: Apple Watch, Apple Watch 2, Apple Watch series 3, and Apple Watch series 4, with prices ranging from $500 to $1000.

With Apple Watch, you could receive notifications of messages, read and reply messages from iPhone, receive calls, voice control your iPhone, check the weather, view calendar, get reminders, listen to music, track your exercise and make payment, etc. It comes with the basic features of a watch and advanced features of smartwatch.

To listen to Spotify music on Apple Watch, you could follow the below guide.

Part 2: Listen to Spotify Music on Apple Watch with Spotify App for Apple Watch

As of Nov. 13th, 2018, Spotify finally and officially released a Spotify app for Apple Watch, which enables Apple Watch users to directly listen to music from Spotify on Apple Watch devices. And it offers a far more complete experience than ever.  

With the Spotify app for Apple Watch, you could now:

1. Play, pause, and skip, both music and podcasts on Spotify.
2. Control the volume of Spotify.
3. Get song info on Spotify about what's playing.
4. Play from Recently Played playlist.
5. Save your favorites.
6. Use Spotify Connect to play to another device.

If you want to get Spotify app on your Apple Watch, you need to have an iPhone 5 or above that's running iOS 10 or later. And the Apple Watch should be running watchOS 4.0 or above versions.

Then, how to install Spotify on Apple Watch? You firstly need to make sure you have already a Spotify account and you have installed and logged in Spotify on your smartphone. Then, follow the below steps to learn how to install Spotify app on Apple Watch.

1. Download and install Apple Watch app on your smartphone if you don't have it installed yet.
2. Head to the Apple Watch app on your smartphone and open it.
3. Navigate to the "App Store" within Apple Watch.
4. Search the App Store for "Spotify".
5. Install Spotify app.
6. You can then find the Spotify app on your Apple Watch, or it will open automatically when you start music from your iPhone.
7. Log in your Spotify account on your smartphone and it will get synced between Apple Watch and iPhone.
8. Play any music you like on Spotify to listen to Spotify songs on Apple Watch.

This Spotify app for Apple Watch works for both free and Spotify Premium users. But to fully explore the wonderful music listening experience, you are suggested to upgrade to the Premium plan for ads-free Spotify music listening.

Part 3: Listen to Spotify Music on Apple Watch by Downloading Spotify Music for Apple Watch

Also, there is another way to help you play Spotify songs on Apple Watch. That is to make use of Spotify song downloader software to download Spotify songs to Apple Watch recognized audio files and then transfer the downloaded Spotify songs to Apple Watch for unlimited listening. This method has no requirement upon your iPhone model, watchOS version and Spotify Premium upgrade. You only need to make use of Spotify song downloader.

Leawo's Prof. DRM is such kind of Spotify song downloader program for you to remove the DRM protection upon Spotify songs and playlist, and then download and convert Spotify music to MP3, AAC, M4A, etc. for your Apple Watch. You could also adjust audio channel, bit rate, and sample rate of Spotify songs before downloading and converting according to the requirements of Apple Watch.

Download and install Leawo Prof. DRM on your computer. And then follow the below steps to learn how to download Spotify songs for Apple Watch.

Note: Launch Spotify and play Spotify songs smoothly on your computer to make sure Spotify works normally before you start to download Spotify songs with Leawo Prof. DRM.

Step 1: Add Spotify music to Prof. DRM

Launch Leawo Prof. DRM and it will ask you to launch Spotify. Then directly drag and drop songs or albums from Spotify desktop software on your computer to Leawo Prof. DRM.

To add Spotify music playlist to Leawo Prof. DRM, copy the URL of Spotify playlist from Spotify web player. Then, on Leawo Prof. DRM, click the Spotify icon on the Converted tab, and then paste the playlist URL into the browser bar. And then click the “OK” button.

Step 2: Set output format and audio parameters

Then click the pencil icon in each loaded Spotify music title to set output format and audio parameters. Choose output audio format and change the Channel, Sample rate, and Bit rate respectively according to Apple Watch requirements. MP3 is recommended. Click either "Apply to All" or "Apply to current" button to save these settings. "Apply to All" is recommended for time saving.

Step 3: Set output directory

Then, set output directory in the “Output” box at the bottom of Leawo Prof. DRM.

Step 4: Start to download and convert Spotify music

Now you could start to download and convert Spotify songs for Apple Watch through a simiple click on the blue button "Convert" at the bottom right corner

The DRM removal would happen in the background. When the downloading finishes, you could view all downloaded Spotify songs under the “Converted” tab. With Spotify songs downloaded, you could now follow the below steps to learn how to play downloaded Spotify songs on Apple Watch easily:

1. Sync downloaded Spotify music to iPhone via iTunes as you usually do. Note: iTunes will erase existing music files on iPhone. You could turn to Leawo iTransfer to transfer downloaded Spotify music to iOS.
2. After transferring downloaded Spotify music to iPhone, open Music app on your iPhone and then create a new playlist for your Spotify songs to add transferred Spotify songs by going to "Library > Playlist > New Playlist".
3. Make sure your Apple Watch and iPhone are on the same WiFi connection. Turn on Bluetooth on your iPhone.
4. Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap "My Watch" tab and tap "Music > Add Music" to choose the Spotify albums and playlists to sync.
5. Pair Bluetooth headphones or speakers to Apple Watch.
6. Start to play Spotify Music.

Now, you have successfully played Spotify on Apple Watch. Just enjoy it anywhere with your iPhone.

Part 4: 5 Popular Spotify Playlists for Running or Sporting

On Spotify, there are over 30 million songs available for you to listen to, all of which are free for listening. If you are a sportsman, you could wear your Apple Watch and get some excellent songs for running or sporting from Spotify. Below are 5 top popular Spotify playlists for running and sporting you could get on Spotify. Of course, you could create your own Spotify playlist by adding your own favorite songs for running or sporting.

Running Playlist

If you are running, songs from this playlist would be quite suitable to you. You could listen to My Way, The Day Is My Enemy, Hey Baby, Bubbletop, Kill Room, Hype, Crank It, etc.

Cycling playlist

The chamois club favors Top 40, it seems. There are more than 700,000 cycling playlists on Spotify, and Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is on 10 percent of them—presumably because its 96 beats per minute align well with a morning sweat session at SoulCycle.

Movie sounds unlimited playlist

Enjoy these movie sounds when you are sporting, including Are You with Me, Ain't Nobody, Hula Hoop, Only Girl, Sugar, Can't Feel My Face, Cheap Thrills, Scream & Shout, What Do You Mean, Barbra Streisand, etc.

Skiing

Who doesn't want to hear that "SAILLLLL" while sailing off the side of a cliff? From the top to the bottom, what else is better than a "Kill Your Heroes" echoing? Other songs like Young Blood, Midnight City, Punching In A Dream, Electric Feel, etc., all make it excellent skiing.

CrossFit

With classic pump-up staples like Eminem's "Lose Yourself," Fort Minor's "Remember the Name," and Metallica's "Enter Sandman," it seems the 100,000-plus CrossFitters on Spotify found what worked for them and stuck to it.