This is helpful if you’re in an area where you have a poor connection or none at all, like on an airplane or underground train, for instance. Meanwhile, offline listening is available to Pandora Plus or Premium paying subscribers, which lets you save tracks for offline play. Pandora Premium subscribers also can search and play specific songs, artists and albums on-demand, right from their wrist. Even without an iPhone, users can play, pause and skip songs pick up where they left off on podcasts thumbs-up their favorite music adjust the volume and more. With watchOS 6, app developers can now create independent audio consumption experiences that no longer need to lean on the iPhone.įor Pandora, this change means users can go directly to the App Store on the Apple Watch to download the watch app to log in and start streaming. The app notably takes advantage of the new streaming APIs Apple introduced last year at its annual developer conference. Pandora’s new app, on the other hand, lets users leave their phone behind as it supports both streaming and offline downloads. In some cases, these users have even defected to Apple Music, calling Spotify’s watch app a mere “remote control,” as it still hasn’t even implemented offline support. This has been a sore subject with a core group of Spotify’s customers - particularly those who want to enjoy music on their Apple Watch while exercising, for example, when carrying around an iPhone is more cumbersome. However, Spotify’s app still needs to be tethered to the iPhone in order to work. Others, including SoundCloud, Napster, Deezer and more, also have Apple Watch experiences. Spotify notably debuted its own Watch app in 2018. To be clear, Pandora is not the first non-Apple music service to offer an Apple Watch app. The launch makes Pandora the first major third-party - meaning, first besides Apple Music - to offer a standalone app for Apple Watch. The company today announced the official launch of its new standalone app for Apple Watch that lets you listen to music and podcasts on the go, even without your iPhone. Support for standalone streaming has come to Pandora’s Apple Watch app.
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