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How to Pair Bluetooth Headphones and Listen to Music on Apple Watch

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Apple Watch includes storage space for adding content like apps, photos, and music, with up to some of that space dedicated to storing songs. When you add a playlist, you can listen to music on it, even when your iPhone is not in range. While the process is fairly self-explanatory, there are a few steps you don't want to forget in order to play music from Apple Watch to your Bluetooth connected headphones

Adding Music to Apple Watch

In order to listen to music on Apple Watch without an iPhone in range, you must sync a playlist to it first.
  1. Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and tap My Watch.
  2. Select Music from the list.
  3. Tap "Synced Playlist" to access your iPhone's playlist.
  4. Select a playlist from the list (if there is no playlist visible in this list, you will need to create one on your iPhone).
  5. Place your Apple Watch on its charger to initiate the sync. This step is important. Apple Watch will not sync a playlist if it has not been connected to the charger.
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This is a less complete article than on Apple's website.

I would like to suggest a how to article on how to remove how to articles from my newsfeed.
 
I think these how-to articles are great. Not eveyone wants to dig around Google and Apple's website to find things like this. These are great for MacRumors because they help keep people on MacRumors once they're here instead of going elsewhere for this info. And the information is presented in an aesthetically-pleasing way. I do agree, however, with the posters who suggest a setting to disable notification of how-to articles for those who are not interested.
 
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This seems like way, way to much work, and the reason mystifies me anyway: why not just play to the Bluetooth from your iPhone? If you are out without your iPhone (say jogging, biking etc.) would you have some Bluetooth equipped headphones on?

Lastly, the main reason to have the music on your Apple Watch is precisely have different songs from the one saved on your iPhone, but of course you can only add directly from the iPhone instead of your much larger iTunes collection.
 
myrtlebee said:
I think these how-to articles are great. Not eveyone wants to dig around Google and Apple's website to find things like this. These are great for MacRumors because they help keep people on MacRumors once they're here instead of going elsewhere for this info.
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Don't have an Apple Watch and not getting one, but if there had been a similar article for iPhone or Mac before I would have liked it when I got my bluetooth headphones for a gift. I go to MR frequently for news anyway and nearly never go to Apple's website. Sure I figured it out just fine on my own, but if I had read about it beforehand it or knew I could find the info quickly on MR, it could have saved a little time.

And the information is presented in an aesthetically-pleasing way. I do agree, however, with the posters who suggest a setting to disable notification of how-to articles for those who are not interested.
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I know that MR is moving over to new forum software soon. Maybe along with this could come some option of (un)subscribing to different tags / categories of news? Or maybe a new "page" could be added: Front Page, Mac Blog, iOS Blog, Roundups, How-tos.

I was going to suggest a page for the much-maligned weekly "Buyer's Guides" (example here), but just noticed the conflicting terminology with the Buyer's Guide for Apple releases. The former might be subsumed under the latter maybe, or one of their names could be changed?

I like the how-to's and buyer's guides, but it's rather annoying nearly every time that the discussion veers from the content of the article to how much people hate or love them.

Ted13 said:
This seems like way, way to much work, and the reason mystifies me anyway: why not just play to the Bluetooth from your iPhone? If you are out without your iPhone (say jogging, biking etc.) would you have some Bluetooth equipped headphones on?
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You may be closer to your watch than your phone. From what I've read your phone does not have to be right next to your watch — especially if you're on the same WiFi network as your watch you can go quite aways from your phone. So you might have your phone in your bedroom charging, your watch on your wrist with you in the basement, and your bluetooth headphones on paired with your watch to listen to music, etc. I'm sure there are other scenarios like this.
 
I guess MacRumors is getting a little desperate...
Maybe Tim cook and apple have finally started doubling down on leaks etc
 
I find these how-to articles as annoying as anybody else. All of these instructions are on the Apple website and in the AppleWatch user guide. But...

I also realise they're not designing to be particularly helpful, they're designed to improve the site's SEO and drive traffic, thereby increasing ad-revenue. These articles are a necessary evil when it comes to keeping the site free, paying for servers and software upgrades. As such I can't really blame the team for posting them on the front page.
 
It's a bit ridiculous that my $700 watch only has 8GB of storage. The standard Watch with stainless steel should at least come with 16GB given the premium. I'm worried about native apps taking up space in the future once the new SDK is standard as well as the OS becoming bloated over time. Watches probably won't be upgraded very often. I see it being more like iPads and Macs. One could even argue we're starting to see the same happen with phones as newer models offer less compelling reasons to upgrade. Many people I know are going to three year phone upgrades. Although I think some of the reasoning is that they refuse to get a big iPhone but whatever.
 
macduke said:
It's a bit ridiculous that my $700 watch only has 8GB of storage. The standard Watch with stainless steel should at least come with 16GB given the premium.
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And the $10,000 Edition should have 228.571428GB of storage.

Kanye West's custom model should have 1TB of storage.
 
Okay I'm getting a little bored with the Apple Watch now. Please stop publishing stories about it. It's a gadget for the super rich, I get it. Only .05% of people have got one or want to buy one. I realise your "sources" in Apple are pushing stories to escalate hype but this all needs to die down.
 
If you need a guide for every feature that tells me that people can't "easily" figure it out. Got to figure that most Apple users don't visit tech sites or read manuals.
 
JCrz said:
And the $10,000 Edition should have 228.571428GB of storage.

Kanye West's custom model should have 1TB of storage.
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No, but honestly it should have as much as technically possible to fit inside given the current size requirements.
 
Ballis said:
Its hard to imagine anyone buying an Apple watch not carrying an iPhone, so why even bother?
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Since buying an Apple watch my iPhone gets little to no use. My iPhone is out of range when I go jogging so this is a neat feature.

Problem is, I don't have bluetooth headphones and all of my music is streamed. Maybe when I can download Spotify music onto my watch :rolleyes:
 
One Bad Duck said:
Okay I'm getting a little bored with the Apple Watch now. Please stop publishing stories about it. It's a gadget for the super rich, I get it.
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Thanks! I love being called "super rich"!

My colleague just bought a car that cost a hundred times more than my Apple Watch, and he has to pay quite a lot of money each month to fill it up with the rather expensive remains of unreplaceable million-year-old biomass. Not to mention the fact that the moment he left the dealership with the car, it lost the eqivalent of five Apple Watches in value, and it continues to lose value quickly.

If I, as an Apple Watch owner, am considered "super rich", then what do people call someone who can urinate that much money down the drain within the blink of an eye?
 
myrtlebee said:
I think these how-to articles are great. Not eveyone wants to dig around Google and Apple's website to find things like this. These are great for MacRumors because they help keep people on MacRumors once they're here instead of going elsewhere for this info. And the information is presented in an aesthetically-pleasing way. I do agree, however, with the posters who suggest a setting to disable notification of how-to articles for those who are not interested.
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People who use Macrumors know how to use an Apple Watch if they have one. People who don't use Macrumors are going to use google search, and you can bet they're not going to click "Macrumors" over "Apple.com".

It's especially unhelpful since Macrumors is putting out info that isn't as complete or easy to understand as Apple's own support docs.
 
Thanks for the sharing but i do not have apple watch. Hope will get soon and enjoy the music.
:p:p
 
I used to use Bluetooth headphones. So flaky and annoying have to charge them all the time. And drains the phone battery. So I have Bluetooth switched off.

Bluetooth is a negative aspect of the Apple Watch, along with its reliance on Siri.
 
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