Can of Access Apple Music on Series 3?

[Traverse]

I am not sure what I’ve done wrong.

I am in Apple Music subscriber and I use iCloud music library on my Mac, I do not have it enabled on my iPhone. I am in Apple Music subscriber and I use iCloud music library on my Mac, but I do not have it enabled on my iPhone. I wanted to go for a run and just for fun use only my Apple Watch. I do sync some music to the watch locally but I wanted to play one of my playlist that I have not synced to the watch. However, when I go into the Music app I can only view the music that I have sent it to the watch. I can’t view any other albums, songs, playlist that are not a part of the music that I transferred via Bluetooth to the watch. P

Do you have to have iCloud music library enabled on your phone? Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: sorry for the title typo, I’m in a hurry.

 

[Julien]

Since wOS is integrated into and a subset of iOS you probably have to have it on on your iPhone to work on your watch.

 

[Sebby]

I am not sure what I’ve done wrong.

I am in Apple Music subscriber and I use iCloud music library on my Mac, I do not have it enabled on my iPhone. I am in Apple Music subscriber and I use iCloud music library on my Mac, but I do not have it enabled on my iPhone. I wanted to go for a run and just for fun use only my Apple Watch. I do sync some music to the watch locally but I wanted to play one of my playlist that I have not synced to the watch. However, when I go into the Music app I can only view the music that I have sent it to the watch. I can’t view any other albums, songs, playlist that are not a part of the music that I transferred via Bluetooth to the watch. P

Do you have to have iCloud music library enabled on your phone? Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: sorry for the title typo, I’m in a hurry.

I think I understand what you’re getting at because it also didn’t make sense to me at first. Although you don’t have to transfer the music to your watch locally, you do have to have it in your library for it to show on the watch, and from your library you can stream it. There is no way to actually find music or add it to your library from the watch itself, as far as I know.

The other option is to use the Radio app, whereby you can choose a station and have it stream.

 

[Traverse]

Since wOS is integrated into and a subset of iOS you probably have to have it on on your iPhone to work on your watch.

I think I understand what you’re getting at because it also didn’t make sense to me at first. Although you don’t have to transfer the music to your watch locally, you do have to have it in your library for it to show on the watch, and from your library you can stream it. There is no way to actually find music or add it to your library from the watch itself, as far as I know.

The other option is to use the Radio app, whereby you can choose a station and have it stream.

Well, that’s lame. I expected a toggle between my iCloud Misic Library and music in the Watch so I could play non-synced playlists.

I should have known that Apple wouldn’t make it intuitive.

 

[waw74]

did you try asking siri to play something?

 

[Traverse]

did you try asking siri to play something?

Song or albums works, but “Hey Siri, play my ?????? Playlist” failed if it isn’t on my watch.

 

[matrix07]

Song or albums works, but “Hey Siri, play my ?????? Playlist” failed if it isn’t on my watch.

Doesn’t Apple Music sync every playlist?

 

[Traverse]

Doesn’t Apple Music sync every playlist?

Sync as in copy to the watch? No, there isn't enough local storage on the Watch, but all your playlists and the related songs exist in your "iCloud Music Library."

I think the issue is that I do not have iCML enabled on my iPhone. *sigh* I had hopped that the Watch would act separately and access iCloud independent of the device. I don't use iCML on my iPhone because then you can no longer sync to iTunes and play counts do not reliably update.