Spotify might finally be letting Apple Watch users stream their music

Spotify app (Image credit: iMore)

What you need to know

Spotify appears to be testing a new feature designed for Apple Watch users.
Some people have a new feature that will let them play music from their Apple Watch.
It doesn't seem to need a beta app, but it isn't available for everyone.

Amazingly, in 2020, nobody can stream music from Spotify using their Apple Watch. Or, should I say, most people can't. But a lucky few can after Spotify started to test the feature with a limited number of listeners.

We don't yet know who has access or why they were chosen, but it doesn't seem to be related to any kind of beta version of the Spotify app itself. Instead, users just seem to be having the feature appear on their watches alongside a blue tag that says "Beta".

Spotify Streaming On Apple Watch (Image credit: iPhone-Ticker.de)

The news was first shared by iPhone-Ticker.de and while Spotify hasn't said anything about the feature or its testing, it's clear the company is working on it. Now we just need it to make Apple Watch streaming available to everyone.

If the beta is active, you can no longer select only the iPhone or an existing Spotify Connect speaker as the playback target, the Apple Watch itself can also be set as the playback source via a clock symbol and then streams via the LTE network.

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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.