Now it’s easier than ever to download Spotify playlists to your Apple Watch

If you’ve ever forgotten to download Spotify playlists to your Apple Watch before a walk, run, or cycle ride, a new feature should make life much easier.

Instead of having to manually download to the Watch, you can use any Apple device to queue up playlist downloads, which will happen the next time you open Spotify on your Watch. The same feature also allows you to queue downloads for any other Apple device, like an iPad …

Spotify lets you download playlists to up to five devices at a time, but originally you had to do each of those individually. The company later introduced the ability to manage Watch downloads from your iPhone, but that tool has now been made much more powerful.

Engadget reports.

Spotify is rolling out a new feature that lets Premium subscribers remotely download playlists to additional devices. For instance, a user could initiate a download on an iPhone for an iPad or for a backup phone ahead of a trip […]

The big news here, however, is that this functionality also works with smartwatches, with integration for Wear OS devices and Apple Watch models.

With the new improved feature, you can queue up downloads from whatever device you happen to be using at the time. Each playlist also now gets a Manage Downloads button which shows you which devices already have that music available for offline play.

The feature is rolling out globally over the course of the next few weeks.

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