Play music on Apple Watch

: June 7, 2024
: Apple

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Play music on Apple Watch

Play music on Apple Watch

Use the Music app to choose and play music on Apple Watch. You can play music stored on Apple Watch, control music on your iPhone, and stream music from Apple Music if you’re a subscriber.

Ask Siri. Say something like:

“Play ‘Experience’ by Victoria Monét”
“Play more songs from this album”
“Play my workout playlist”

Play music

After you connect Apple Watch to Bluetooth headphones or speakers, open the Music app on your Apple Watch, then do any of the following:

Play music on your Apple Watch: Turn the Digital Crown to scroll through album artwork, then tap a playlist or album to play it.Use the Apple Watch app on your iPhone to choose which songs to add to Apple Watch.
Play music from iPhone (Bluetooth pairing not required): Scroll to the top of the screen, tap On iPhone, then tap a playlist, artist, album, or song to play it.
Play music from your music library: Tap Library, then tap a playlist, artist, album, or song. To play music downloaded to your Apple Watch, tap Downloaded, then choose music.
Request music from Apple Music (Apple Music subscription required): Raise your wrist, then request an artist, album, song, genre, or portion of a song lyric.

Play music for you

If you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you can play music chosen just for you.

Open the Music app on your Apple Watch.
Scroll to the top of the screen, then tap Listen Now to view a curated feed of playlists and albums based on your likes and dislikes.
Tap a category, tap an album or playlist, then tap .If you tap a station, it plays in the Radio app on Apple Watch.

Open the queue

When playing music, you can see a list of upcoming songs in the queue.

Open the Music app on your Apple Watch.
Play an album or playlist, then tap .
To play a track in the queue, tap it.

By default, Auto Play adds music to the end of the queue that’s similar to what you’re playing. To turn off Auto Play, tap .

Note: When you turn off Auto Play on a device that uses your Apple ID—your Apple Watch, for example—it’s turned off only for that device. Other devices will continue to use Auto Play until you turn it off on each one.

To add music you choose to the queue, swipe left on a song, playlist, or album; tap ; then tap Play Next or Play Later. Music you choose to play later is added to the end of the queue.

Tell Music what you like, add music to the library, and more

On Apple Watch you can add music to your library, remove songs, mark what you do and don’t like, add songs to the queue, browse an artist’s music, and view the contents of albums and playlists. Do any of the following:

View options from the Now Playing screen: While playing music, tap , then choose an option.
View options in Listen Now and Library: Swipe left on a song, playlist, or album; tap ; then choose an option. Tap to add the item to your library.

Control playback

Turn the Digital Crown to adjust volume. Use these controls to play music on your Apple Watch and iPhone:

| Play the current song.
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| Pause playback.
| Skip to the next song.
| Skip to the beginning of the song; double-tap to skip to the previous song.

Shuffle or repeat music

Shuffle albums, songs, artists, from the Music screen: Tap an album, artist, or playlist, then tap .
Shuffle or repeat music from the playback screen: While viewing the playback screen, tap , then tap or .Tap Repeat twice to repeat a song.