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Buadhai

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I have many playlists downloaded to my iPhone.

I have downloaded only four of those playlists to my watch for offline listening.

But, when I look at Music>Library>Downloaded>Playlists on my watch it displays all the playlists that I have downloaded to my iPhone.

How do I identify only those playlists downloaded to the watch so that I can listen offline without using cellular data?
 
Weird. Music>Library>Downloaded>Albums works though. It only show my downloaded albums.
I've only added playlists to my watch. I've never added by album. When I list Music>Library>Downloaded>Albums it shows every album that has at least one song in one of the four playlists that I've downloaded.

For example one of the albums listed is Don McLean's "American Pie", but the only song shown is "American Pie" because that song is in one of the downloaded playlists.

It is indeed weird. And, somewhat inconvenient.

I guess one solution is to rename the downloaded playlists in a way that shows they have been downloaded to the watch.
 
I have many playlists downloaded to my iPhone.

I have downloaded only four of those playlists to my watch for offline listening.

But, when I look at Music>Library>Downloaded>Playlists on my watch it displays all the playlists that I have downloaded to my iPhone.

How do I identify only those playlists downloaded to the watch so that I can listen offline without using cellular data?

From the Watch, Music -> Library -> Downloaded -> scroll all the way to the bottom to see a Recently Downloaded section which lists all playlists downloaded to your watch.

Joseph
 
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Thanks. I'd seen that. It's sort of a solution. On my watch only three of the four playlists I've downloaded shows up in Music -> Library -> Downloaded -> scroll all the way to the bottom. (Perhaps one wasn't recent enough?) And, the playlist names are not displayed; just what seems to be random album covers from one of the songs on the playlist.
 
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