Music whilst running

[J4CKO]

I have recently started dong a bit of running and I have a an Iphone 8 Plus, in a full on "dad case" as my kids call it, i.e. holds your cards and covers the screen, its a bit of a lump.

I dont want to cart it in the gym but it pairs with my Jabra wireless headphones and I use Spotify, not sure of the capabilities of the Apple Watch to control Spotify, i.e. if I leave my phone in the locker can Spotify/Iwatch play direct to the headphones without connecting back to the phone which is some distance away ?

Am Making sense ?

[anonymous-user]

I’m pretty sure that the watch Spotify app just controls the phone app as it were. The headphones still from the phone
But if the watch is in range then the headphones will be too if both Bluetooth?

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 1st June 22:20

[troc]

You should be able to connect the watch and headphones via Bluetooth and stream
Music from the watch which you have uploaded to it.

For Spotify, you might get it to work if your gym has WiFi and your phone (and watch) are connected to it.

[Piginapoke]

Apple watch 4 and AirPods does all this very well, and you can leave your phone at home

[mike9009]

It might not be quite what you are looking for but I like these...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOTfzZCyCmo

[J4CKO]

Bought an Apple Watch 4, The Spotify app is crap though, cant use headphones with it, can only use it to control whats playing on your phone so have to have your headphones paired to that. Apple Music works so now have a selection of various stuff from my old Itunes account.

Not sure whether to keep it to be honest, have done the Apple Music 3 month trial but dont want to pay a tenner a month for that on top of Spotify which the rest of my family uses.

[J4CKO]

Am quite liking it now, just needs a bit of time and set up to get it working as you want it.

[J4CKO]

First gym session using it, didnt go to plan,

The phone connects ok to the WiFi at the gym, always has and the watch can see it, idea being to leave phone in the locker and let the watch connect to wifi to download music, but it just said it couldn't connect, so need to work out why.

I put a few tracks on the watch itself, trouble is my Itunes was used by my son and its full of his stuff, a track here and a track there and its not easy to see whats actually been copied to the watch, you get a full list of the all the tracks that the phone has and then it just says it cant connect to get it off the phone/wifi.