Two Ways to Play Apple Music on Apple Watch without iPhone

By Sarah ConnorUpdated on September 18, 2018

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Summary:

Do you want to play Apple Music on Apple Watch without iPhone when outdoor activities? This article teach you how to offline listening Apple Music tracks on Apple Watch Series 4/Nike+/Hermes and Apple Watch Series 3/2/1 without iPhone.

CONTENTS

• Way 1: Sync Apple Music from iPhone to Apple Watch for Playing Online
• Way 2: Remove Apple Music DRM and Transfer to Apple Watch for Playing Offline after Unsubscription

The Apple Watch Series 4 was unveiled at the Apple company’s 12 Sept iPhone XS launch event and is now available to pre-order, and it brings a major redesign and a wide range of health and fitness features. Apple Watch Series 4 starts at $399, packs larger displays and EKG sensor. The new smartwatch is set to bring a series of new features to your wrist and a 30 percent larger screen. Apple Watch Series 4 features low and high heart rate notifications, Fall Detection, Emergency SOS and new Breathe watch faces.

The Apple Watch Series 4, Apple Watch Nike+, Apple Watch Hermes and Apple Watch Series 3/2/1 is an outstanding sports watch. When you go to the gym, even if you lock your cell phone in the locker, you will not miss the important phone, information, or notice. You can also draw more music into your wrist, so as to draw a continuous stream of power in your singing. It also allows users to synchronously purchase iTunes or apple music albums or playlists for offline listening. Nowadays, people are becoming more and more relaxed and convenient. Many people do not want to carry iPhone when they are working out, running, swimming, climbing or riding a bike, but they want to enjoy Apple Music in the process of sports. If you want to play Apple Music songs on Apple Watch when outdoor activities. Here, the second guide shows you how to sync and play Apple Music on Apple Watch without iPhone, even you unsubscribe from Apple Music.

Way 1: Sync Apple Music from iPhone to Apple Watch for Playing Online

With Apple Watch OS 4, activity and workout tracking has also been improved, while the Apple Music app will automatically sync music to your Apple Watch in OS 4 above. So if you have the purchased iTunes music, or if you are subscribers of Apple Music streaming service, you can sync albums or playlists purchased from iTunes or Apple Music to Apple Watch for offline playback without iPhone. Here will show you how to sync Apple music from iPhone to your Apple Watch in 4 steps.

Step 1: Turn on your iPhone and open the Apple Music app, then create a new playlists which you want to sync to Apple Watch.

Step 2: Sync Apple Music playlists from iPhone to Apple Watch: Before syncing music to your Apple Watch, there are two things need to be done – Turn on the Bluetooth on your iPhone device, and your Apple Watch needs to be on charging.
Then go to My Watch app on iPhone device, and ready sync the created playlist to Apple Watch from iPhone: Tap Music > Add Music to select the Apple Music albums and playlists to sync.

Only few minutes, all Apple Music songs be synced to your Apple Watch, you can find the created playlist on Music app in Apple Watch, below is the guide shows you how to pair Apple Watch to Bluetooth headphones or speakers for listening when outdoor activities.

Step 3: Match the Bluetooth headset or speaker with your Apple Watch. Then set Bluetooth mode on your Apple Watch. If the watch indicates that your headset is under the device, you can also click on the headset to match mode.

Step 4: After they are synchronized and paired, you can open the Music app on your Apple Watch, refresh the menu, select the source of music, and click on the icon on the Apple Watch. Slide down and then you will see the “playlist“, and then click on it, and you will see the title of a playlist in my Apple Watch, now you can play Apple Music on Apple Watch without iPhone.

Way 2: Remove Apple Music DRM and Transfer to Apple Watch for Playing Offline after Unsubscription

As you know, Apple Music subscription allows users to play and download music files for offline listening and playing on any other Apple device, like Apple Watches, iPod, iPhone, iPad and so on. If you unsubscribe from Apple Music, you are no longer to play any streaming music you’ve added or downloaded to your library from the Apple Music catalog, because Apple Music tracks adds DRM protection, which limits you to no longer to playing, transfering or using after after unsubscribing. The best way is removing DRM protection from Apple Music, then you can keep the downloaded Apple Music songs playable on your Apple Watch, iPod, iPhone, Mac, or other devices, even you unsubscribe from Apple Music.

Then you can turn to Apple Music DRM Removal – Apple Music Converter, which can help you legally delete DRM protection from Apple Music and convert them into MP3, AAC, WAV, or FLAC formats. When you cancel your subscription, you can also transfer these DRM free apple music songs to your Apple Watch for offline listening. Want to know how to remove DRM quickly and transfer Apple music to Apple Watch, please go ahead and download the Apple Music Converter and break up DRM from Apple Music songs first.

Steps to Remove DRM from Apple Music and Stream to Apple Watch

Step 1.Download and Start the Apple Music Converter

Download and install the apple music converter. After that, please start the software. iTunes will load your songs and playlists automatically.

Step 2.Add Apple Music Songs to the Program

All Apple music songs and playlists have been added to the iTunes library. After running the Apple Music Converter, all iTunes media files will load and shows on the software’s main interface, then you can choose any Apple Music songs and iTunes audio files you want to convert to MP3 one by one. You can also batch select the songs you want to convert.

Step 3.Select MP3 as an output format

After the successful addition, please press the output format option to output the format, and the Apple Music Converter supports 8 output formats: MP3, M4A, AC3, AIFF, AU, FLAC, M4R, and MKA. Please select “MP3” as the output format.You can also select audio quality from low, normal, high or set bitrate, sample rate according to your needs.

Step 4.Start to Remove DRM from Apple Music

After completing the above steps, the last one is to click the button to start conversion and convert all selected music to MP3 without DRM encryption format. Once the conversion is completed, you will get free DRM Apple Music songs, and you can put it on any devices for offline listening.

Step 5.Transfer converted Apple Music to Apple Watch

Once the conversion is completed, the apple music will be automatically saved on your computer in the MP3 format. If you want to transfer those converted Apple Music songs to your Apple Watch, you need to sync them from comptuer to iPhone first. Here, you can use iPhone Transfer or iTunes to import the DRM-free Apple Music songs to iPhone device, let’s shows you how to sync music to iPhone via iTunes.
1)Connect your iPhone to PC via matched USB cable.
2)Open iTunes. For the first connection, a window will pop out. Click “Continue” to allow iTunes to read your iPhone data. At the same time, another dialog will come out on your iPhone, on which you could tap “Trust” to continue.
3)After that, click the phone icon on the left corner of the interface. To manage your media files manually, you’d better go to “Options” under “Summary” tab, cancel “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected” and check “Manually manage music and videos”. Don’t forget to click “Done” when it’s done.
4)Import music into iTunes library from computer by clicking “File” and then “Add File to Library”. Once transferred successfully, you can select the music icon on top to see all the songs.
5)Now, click “Music” under “Settings” tab. Choose “Sync Music”. You can either sync entire music library or selected playlists as you like. Then click “Done” button at the bottom.

Tips: It’s take you long times to sync music from computer to iPhone by iTunes, we recommend you use this iPhone Transfer tool to transfer music, videos, photos and more between iPhone and computer, this is a easy-to-used thrid-part iPhone manager & transfer tool.

Free download the TunesGo for Windows and Mac and begin import the converted Apple Music songs to iOS devices.

Above easy steps, you have synced converted Apple Music to iPhone, please follow the steps on way 1 to sync the converted Apple Music playlists from iPhone to Apple Watch, after that you can play the converted Apple Music on the Apple Watch without iPhone.

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