With an elegant design and excellent functionality, the Samsung Galaxy Watch lets you listen to your favorite tracks easily—either through your smartwatch’s built-in speaker, or your phone or other connected Bluetooth devices—so you can enjoy podcasts and playlists on the go. Let’s take a look at how to set up and use Spotify on your Samsung Galaxy Watch.
Getting Started With Spotify on Your Wear OS Smartwatch
The Spotify Connect feature allows you to stream and control music playback remotely with a range of connected devices. To use Spotify on your watch, you’ll need to pair it with your phone first. You can then listen to music on supported devices—whether it’s your smartphone or Bluetooth earbuds, or smart speakers.
This process works primarily with the Galaxy Watch 3, Galaxy Watch 4, and Galaxy Watch 5 devices. You can also do it with some other Wear OS watches, like a Pixel Watch. For this guide, we’ll be using a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4.
Select models such as the Galaxy Watch 3, Galaxy Watch Active 2, and some others support direct audio output. For some devices, you might even require a Spotify Premium account to use the feature.
However, it might take a bit of work to stream music directly on your Samsung smartwatch. We’ll walk you through the steps in the sections below. To get started, you’ll need to download the Spotify app on your smartphone, and on your smartwatch as well.
Download: Spotify for Android | iOS (Free, subscription available)
How to Control Spotify on Your Phone With Your Samsung Galaxy Watch
As we noted earlier, you can set up Spotify on your smartwatch to play music through your phone. To do this, you’ll need to pair it with the Spotify account on your connected smartphone. Here’s how:
On your smartphone, launch the Spotify app, and log in with your details. Make sure they’re connected over the same network, and the Bluetooth functionality is enabled. Next, open the app on your smartwatch. A pairing code will appear. Tap Pair on Phone. Alternatively, you can visit the Spotify website and enter the code. Check your connected smartphone for the confirmation screen. Tap Pair now to complete the setup. Your watch will get connected automatically to the Spotify account on your phone. Next, on your smartwatch, tap the device icon at the bottom. Select Your phone from the available device options. Please note that you can’t select your watch for audio output. Swipe left to access your music lists or collections. Select an audio track or podcast and hit Play. The track will start playing on your phone.
How to Play Music Directly on Your Samsung Galaxy Watch
While it’s a bit tricky to play music directly on your smartwatch, there’s still a convenient way to set it up. You can connect to the Spotify web player or desktop app instead, and listen to playlists, radio stations, and podcasts directly on your Galaxy Watch.
For one thing, you’ll need to have your smartwatch and web player connected over the same network. Here’s how you can do this:
Open Spotify in your web browser. Scroll down to the bottom-right corner, and tap the device icon. You can see all of your connected devices—your web browser, smartphone, and other devices on the same network. Next, on your smartwatch, swipe up to access your app drawer, then launch the Spotify app. Swipe left to bring up your playlists/library. You’ll get limited playlist options unless you’re a Spotify premium user. Select a track you’d like to listen to. Your smartwatch should now be visible in the list of connected devices on your web player. If not, double-check that your smartwatch and the web player are connected over the same network. Select your watch, and tap Play to start playback directly on your smartwatch. You can now control the playback settings (pause, skip, and favorites) right from your watch. In case this doesn’t work, you can refresh the web player, or close it and try again. You can also control the audio output at any time—phone, smartwatch, web browser, or other streaming devices. Similarly, you can adjust the volume controls.
With a Premium subscription to Spotify, you can choose from several playlist options and tracks—be it radio stations, podcasts, artists, or albums. Be sure to check out some of these Spotify sites to discover new tunes and get recommendations based on your favorite tracks.
How to Stream Music on Your Galaxy Watch Using Google Assistant
This is yet another useful feature. You can set up Google Assistant on your smartwatch. Once done, you can link your Spotify account to control music playback with Google Assistant voice commands. Here’s how to do this:
On your smartphone, open the Google app. Tap the profile icon in the top-right corner. Navigate to Settings > Music. Under the More music services section, tap Spotify. On the confirmation screen, tap Continue > Agree and continue. Enter your Spotify account credentials. Read the terms and tap Agree to confirm. Your accounts will now be linked. You can use Google Assistant on your smartwatch and connected phone(s) to access Spotify’s music controls.
You can download and listen to music and podcasts from Spotify on Apple Watch as well.
Access Music Controls Right From Your Smartwatch
We hope you’ve enjoyed this guide on how to stream music from Spotify right on your watch. We think it’s a pretty cool feature too!
The next time you’re out for a run and need to access music controls right from your wrist, your Galaxy Watch is going to be able to keep up with you. Just make sure that the Spotify app is updated on your device and follow the steps above, and you should be good to go.
