Spotify revamps its Apple Watch app with bigger art work and new options, like direct downloads

Spotify right this moment announced it’s revamping its Apple Watch expertise. The brand new model of the small-screen streaming app has been redesigned to make it simpler for customers to search out the music or podcasts they need to hear from the “Your Library” part, in addition to meet up with the newest podcast episodes, obtain playlists for offline listening and extra. General, the app has additionally been up to date with bigger art work and smoother animations, making it really feel extra like a sized-down model of the Spotify cellular app relatively than the text-heavy expertise it was beforehand.

First launched in 2018, the Spotify app for Apple Watch has been by a couple of iterations through the years. Notably, it gained standalone streaming support two years in the past, making it a extra helpful streaming companion for on-the-go listening. Final 12 months, it additionally helpfully added the flexibility for Premium customers to download playlists and podcasts to Apple Look ahead to offline listening.

This 12 months’s replace, in the meantime, appears to be geared toward taking higher benefit of the bump in display screen actual property supplied by newer Apple Watch fashions, like the brand new Series 8 and the marginally older Sequence 7.

You’ll discover the up to date app now’s extra colourful, due to the bigger art work, and the titles are simpler to learn in its new structure. Podcast pages higher resemble their cellular counterparts, too, with art work, the run time and a giant, inexperienced play button above the present’s episode record — an enchancment on how the older model of the app would simply present a listing of episodes as textual content.

With right this moment’s adjustments, Spotify says the app’s design will make it simpler for customers to search out content material, like favourite tracks, artists or episodes in “Your Library” as now you can see and choose particular person tracks and episodes from any playlist, podcast, artist or album instantly in your watch.

Right here, you’ll additionally be capable to swipe to “like” tracks and also you’ll be capable to toggle shuffle mode “on” or “off ” earlier than you begin taking part in.

For podcast listeners, the replace will now can help you see the place you left off in an episode so you’ll be able to leap again in and end listening in your watch. The app will even now mark new episodes with a blue dot so it’s simpler to see when your favourite present has up to date, just like how the cellular app makes use of a blue dot to flag exhibits with new and unplayed episodes on the house web page.

One other new function helps you obtain content material to your Apple Watch with out having to make use of the Spotify app in your smartphone.

Earlier than, subscribers who wanted to download playlists, albums or podcasts would achieve this by tapping on the “Obtain to Apple Watch” choice within the Spotify cellular app. The up to date model of the Spotify app for Apple Watch, nonetheless, will enable customers to obtain favourite songs, albums and playlists instantly from the Watch app itself. This makes it simpler to rapidly prep your watch with some music on your exercise or run, maybe, or different occasions while you plan to depart your cellphone behind.

Downloading music to hear offline on the Apple Watch continues to be solely accessible for Spotify Premium customers.

 

The up to date Spotify Apple Watch app is rolling out beginning right this moment and can turn into accessible to all customers globally within the coming week, the corporate says. Meaning chances are you’ll not see these adjustments instantly however ought to quickly.

Spotify additionally means that customers replace their Apple Watch to the newest model of watchOS.