How to Add & Listen to Music on Your Apple Watch: The Complete Guide

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Sponsored Links You can turn on Auto Shazam to let it find new tunes for you. You can even pull from multiple existing playlists just keep the song count or storage amount in mind. Then, drag it to its new location. Step 4: Tap either the Songs or Artists icon at the bottom or tap More, then Songs or Artists in order to search for music on your iPhone to add to the newly created playlist.

Then it will automatically begin to sync. You can swipe up for Control Center and see this at a glance.

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The Watch app on iPhone is also where you will set which music to sync. You can only sync one playlist at a time, however, so you may want to create a new playlist of music that you want to sync ahead of time. My preference is to create a playlist called Apple Watch and add music to it specifically for syncing to Apple Watch. This is a workaround for the limitation of only being able to sync a single playlist and not multiple albums or playlists. From here you can tap Add Music to pick songs and albums to add to your playlist. You can even pull from multiple existing playlists just keep the song count or storage amount in mind. You can also add music to your playlist after you create it from your library when browsing songs, albums, and artists. You can update your playlist from your iPhone at any time to change your selection too. Syncing music from iPhone to Apple Watch happens over Wi-Fi when your Apple Watch is charging, and your selected playlist will need to download to your iPhone which happens automatically after being selected before it can sync the downloaded music to Apple Watch. Once you get your music synced to Apple Watch, you need a way to play it. AirPods and other W1 earphones should pair with Apple Watch automatically after being paired with iPhone, but other Bluetooth audio needs to be manually paired the first time. Once your Bluetooth headphones are in pairing mode, click the Digital Crown on Apple Watch to find the app launcher, then swipe around to the Settings icon which looks like a gear. Tap the headphones label to prompt pairing. From there, you can swipe up from the watch face to find the AirPlay icon at the bottom of Control Center where you can select your headphones. Apple Watch will require wireless audio to be paired before playing local music from the Music app too. Click the Digital Crown on Apple Watch, then swipe around to the Music app which matches the same app on iPhone. After launching Music on Apple Watch, swipe down to reveal the source toggle that lets you choose to play music from Apple Watch rather than iPhone. From here you can use a fitness app like the Workouts app or to track a workout while playing music directly from Apple Watch without having to strap an iPhone to your arm. Mapping outdoor runs from Apple Watch Series 2 while listening to synced music over AirPods is a far better experience for me than running with an iPhone in my hand or in an arm band. Syncing music to Apple Watch could definitely be a simpler experience in the future, but creating a dedicated playlist for now is probably the best solution for most people.

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Between it will automatically begin to sync. Then tap Playlists at the top. You can download podcasts to catch up with them anytime you want. I'm sure they're well written and all, but this isn't exactly rocket science. On a couple of occasions it registered my request and then between carried on as if nothing had happened; I couldn't tell if it was being slow or Siri had forgotten what I asked. Now tap to select the ones you want to sync to your watch—and make sure the watch is on its charging cradle, otherwise nothing will note. When it does, tap on your headphones to pair the two. It's really as simple as you'd expect from Apple.