Listen to Music on Apple Watch without Phone

Method 1: Play Apple Music on Apple Watch without iPhone

To play Apple Music on Apple Watch but without using iPhones, you need to match the following conditions:

• Series 3 or Series 4 Apple Watch with LTE, an active data allowance and Apple Music subscription (which will let you begin streaming music on your watch)
• Or, any Apple Watch and the Apple Music app (which will enable you to download owned music to your watch)
• And of course, you are an Apple Music subscriber or have purchased Apple Music.

Step 1: Set your Apple Watch on its charger and make sure it is charging at current moment. Turn on 'Bluetooth' on your iPhone, you can go to 'Settings' >> 'Bluetooth'. Then keep your iPhone within the range of your Apple Watch.

Step 2: Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, then tap the 'My Watch' tab.

Step 3: Tap 'Music' >> 'Add Music' to select certain Apple Music albums or playlists to sync to your Apple Watch. (Tips: If you can't add specific albums or playlists, try downloading them to your iPhone before you sync with your watch.)

Step 4: Pair Bluetooth headphones or speakers to your Apple Watch. Go to 'Settings' >> 'Bluetooth' on Apple Watch, tap on your headphones when your devices which can be matched are shown under 'Devices'. And now, you can listen to Apple Music on Apple Watch without taking your iPhone.

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Method 2: Save Apple Music on Apple Watch & Playing without Phones

To keep playing Apple Music on Apple Watch even when your Apple Music subscription expired, you can follow the steps below to learn the latest approach. It also is a user-friendly way for those who didn't use iPhone or other devices which are not under Apple system. What we gonna do is to download Apple Music to computer then transfer songs to Apple Watch. It is quite easy to follow. Let's start it now.

What Helps to Download Apple Music to Computer

Before getting started, let me introduce you an outstanding program - Apple Music Converter which is designed for Apple Music users to download and convert Apple Music, iTunes M4P Music, AAX/AA audiobooks and podcast to local in 10x speed. All downloaded Apple Music files will exist in 6 plain audio formats - MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV and AIFF so that you won't worry about incompatible device.

TuneCable provides with both Windows and Mac version, you can know more features from: Windows Version / Mac Version

Step 1: Launch Apple Music Converter on PC

First of all, please download and install Apple Music Converter on your pc. To use the program properly, please ensure that iTunes has been installed on your computer, and please log in with your Apple account as well. Now launch Apple Music Converter.

Step 2: Customize Output Format

You need to make some settings before downloading Apple Music. Tap on (Settings) icon from menu bar. Choose the Output Format, Conversion Mode, Output Quality, Conversion Speed, Output Path and other parameters. Then close the window directly to apply settings.

• Output Format: MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC
• Conversion Mode: Intelligent Mode, Convert Mode, YouTube Mode
• Output Quality: 128kbps, 192kbps, 256kbps, 320kbps
• Output Folder: You can choose to change it or not
• Output Name: {Track Number}, {Title}, {Artist}, {Album}, {Playlist Index}
• Output Organized: None, Artist, Album, Artist/Album, Album/Artist

Step 3: Select Apple Music Tracks to Convert

Click '+ Add' on Step 1 to select Apple Music you want to download. A pop-up window will show up with your iTunes Music library. Simply click on 'Music' and certain playlist to choose desired songs. Then tap 'OK' to confirm your selection.

Step 4: Start to Download and Convert Songs in iTunes

Click '+ Add' button from the left upper corner if you want to add more songs to download. For deleting songs, just simply click '×' icon behind each song. Then you can click 'Convert' to download and convert selected Apple Music and iTunes songs.

TuneCable achieves to convert Apple Music and iTunes playlist with 10x speed, it will just need some time to accomplish the downloading work.

Step 5: View Conversion History

When process done, all converted songs will display in 'Converted' module. To check on directly, you can play these songs in TuneCable directly.

Step 6: Apple Music MP3 Files

For further checking, please click on icon to open the output folder directly. Now, these downloaded Apple Music files are all in plain audio formats and remain with its cover and ID3 information.

Step 7: Transfer Downloaded and Converted Songs to iPhone

So now, you can add these converted songs to iTunes and sync them to iPhone with the same Apple ID or by using a USB cable. If you don't know how, just follow 'Method 1' to do.

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Other Options:

If you are an Amazon Music or Spotify Music user, we still have other options for you to download songs from Amzon Music or Spotify. TuneCable does help to convert songs to MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV format.

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Summary: Above are two ways for you to listen to Apple Music and iTunes Library on Apple Watch without using iPhone. One is to sync Apple Music to Apple Watch, the other is to download Apple Music as well as iTunes songs to computer then sync them to iTunes for keeping forever. The latter has the advantage of being timeless, even Apple Music subscription expired, songs can also be played on Apple Watch, iPhone and iTunes.