Our girls LOVE Spotify and it was a good portion of the reason we bought the watches. My impression is that this is not the case. So we have tried going to the App Store on the watch to download Spotify and it won’t let us - we receive the message in the watch App Store that a phone is required. However, Spotify did not automatically download when the watches were set-up, as I would have expected. A similar feature was announced for Google’s Wear OS at I. They both have their own Spotify Family Plan logins and their Spotify accounts work perfectly on their iPads. Spotify has announced that Apple Watch owners who are subscribed to a premium plan can now download music and podcasts to play offline. Everything was set-up properly and works as expected, except we cannot download Spotify to their watches.

Note that they have their own Apple IDs/accounts and their own iPads with latest iOS, but neither has an iPhone, so we set the watches up using Apple’s Family Setup. We also purchased cellular data plans for them from T-Mobile. We recently purchased 2 Apple Watch SEs for our girls. Cannot download app to Apple Watch on Apple Family.

Download spotify to apple watch