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by cycrutchfield 2106 days ago
Pretty sure that's Spotify's fault, not Apple.
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Izikiel43 2106 days ago
You are correct, Pandora's app does have offline support in the apple watch, and I just got a beta in spotify where I can stream music from wifi in the watch to a speaker with the phone turned off.
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apazzolini 2106 days ago
Pretty sure Apple doesn't expose the correct APIs to allow this on the GPS model of the watch - at least that was the case when I last researched this.
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cycrutchfield 2106 days ago
Not true as of Watch OS 6, I believe.

I'm referring to streaming via cellular. Not sure about playing offline via non-cellular though, I haven't looked into that.

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apazzolini 2106 days ago
I searched a bit - I think you're correct, and also offline support looks to be in beta in the Swedish version of Spotify, so maybe it's actually coming at some point.
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Izikiel43 2106 days ago
I'm in Canada and I got a beta for wifi streaming from the watch, where did you find about the offline beta?
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