Spotify watch app continues to disappoint…

[jamface]

Recently I bought a MacBook Air to replace my 2015 Pro. It’s really good. I expect it to be really good for years, just as the Pro has been. And my previous 2009 Pro (which still works).

But this watch… £400. Is it worth a third of the price of a MacBook? Nope. After six years or whatever it is, I thought I’d try it out. And yeah it’s a pretty good watch. It’s pretty nice for the fitness tracking, if one really needs that stuff… but it’s too buggy generally. And just when I need it to do something, it will have a quiet tantrum and not behave at all.

Siri raise to speak. Laughable. The gymnastics I have to undertake to get it to activate…

Spotify - Siri just never wants to control it fully anymore. Apparently I ‘need to unlock my iPhone first’… err why exactly? You’re paired aren’t you?

And now it won’t play the music I’ve downloaded to it.

 

[letsee]

Which Apple Watch and watchOS?

 

[Itinj24]

For raise to speak, try this… if you wear your watch on your left hand with the crown facing toward your hand, raise your hand and rest the back of your hand against your right side cheek and speak. That should place the microphone right by your mouth. Just speak normal. That’s worked for me for years.

Sorry, can’t speak intelligently about the Spotify app as I use Apple Music.

 

[Monkswhiskers]

Spotify app is buggy but better than the Apollo app that preceded it.
At least you don’t need to put it on the charger every time you wish to download stuff to the watch like Apple Music makes you.

 

[Howard2k]

So if you’re playing a song on your phone through Spotify and you want to change the song from your watch the watch asks you to unlock the phone? Do you have a screenshot? That doesn’t happen to me at all.

 

[jamface]

It’s a 7.

Spotify app is buggy but better than the Apollo app that preceded it.
At least you don’t need to put it on the charger every time you wish to download stuff to the watch like Apple Music makes you.

I’ve just begun a 6 month trial of AM alongside Spotify. Seriously, you have be charging to download music? My god. I already don’t really like the AM watch app. Why does it have those weird changing lights behind the play controls?! At least the Spotify app is consistent.

I installed an old backup so I’m back on watchOS 8.1 thought it might improve things but it’s still annoying. I just don’t understand why they have to cripple the watch like this. I mean, it’s on my damn wrist - why should I have to ‘continue this on my personal device’ instead of just being able to do everything via my watch and Siri? At least I got my Spotify downloads to play direct from the watch.

I guess the truth is that Spotify do their best to make a good app but Apple are making it difficult so people will switch to AM. Not that Spotify are angels… thieving bar stewards

 

[jamface]

So if you’re playing a song on your phone through Spotify and you want to change the song from your watch the watch asks you to unlock the phone? Do you have a screenshot? That doesn’t happen to me at all.

If Spotify is playing on my phoneI can use my watch to skips tracks, pause via Siri. What I can’t do (which I could for a time) is use Siri to choose music, just as I would use Siri on the phone directly, or with my AirPods.

 

[Howard2k]

I don't usually do that but for what it's worth, just now, I had some music playing on my phone and using my watch I asked Siri on my watch "Play Guns N Roses through Spotify" and my phone switched to some GNR. 15.2 on my phone and 8.1 on my watch.

 

[jamface]

Spotify app is buggy but better than the Apollo app that preceded it.
At least you don’t need to put it on the charger every time you wish to download stuff to the watch like Apple Music makes you.

Yes the watch app is pretty good.