YouTube Music gets Apple Watch companion app

AppleInsider

Google on Thursday released a new YouTube Music app for the Apple Watch that will let users control playback on their smartphones from their wrists.

Credit: Google

The app, which requires watchOS 6 and an Apple Watch Series 3 or later to run, will allow users to stream tracks from YouTube Music on their wrists.

Like other streaming platforms on watchOS, the YouTube Music app is basically a remote for the full app on an iPhone. It allows users to perform basic functionality like control playback and browse their libraries.

It also comes with a complication that Apple Watch users can add to their watch faces, though not all faces support it, and a shortcut that lets users cast a song from a smartphone to a speaker.

There are some limitations, including the fact that the app doesn't currently support offline playback on the Apple Watch.

Users can download the YouTube Music app here.



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GeorgeBMac

Yawn....

Neither my phone nor my watch has anything from Google on it.   That would eliminate one of the major reasons for having a product from Apple.

Besides, Apple Music meets my needs.    I like how the watch gives me the option of selecting from 'recently played' stuff from my iPhone when I go for a run with just my watch while leaving my phone in my car.