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Spotify on Apple Watch 2019

PlanPremium CountryAll DeviceApple Watch My Question or IssueGiven the capabilities of Apple Watch 3 and beyond, and given the ability of competing Apple Watch apps (e.g. Apple Music & Audible) Spotify app must be able to download music (say an Apple...

Newbie

Plan Premium   Country All   Device Apple Watch   My Question or Issue Given the capabilities of Apple Watch 3 and beyond, and given the ability of competing Apple Watch apps...

MattSuda

Spotify Star

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Apple Watch
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Downloaded songs not playing offline

I have all my playlists downloaded, they are marked as such and they take up room on my phone. However when playing certain (most) songs in offline mode they just don’t work, the song won’t even begin. I’ve realised this after burning thru data the p...

Newbie

I have all my playlists downloaded, they are marked as such and they take up room on my phone. However when playing certain (most) songs in offline mode they just don’t work, the song won’t even begi...

jamieminetto

Casual Listener

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downloads
Offline Access
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Saved Songs & Download Function Change

Hello,As many others have noticed, the functionality when downloding songs has changed and its horribly painful and I am in strong favours for it to be changed back. Previously, you could automatically like a song by selecting (+) and it would automa...

Casual Listener

Hello, As many others have noticed, the functionality when downloding songs has changed and its horribly painful and I am in strong favours for it to be changed back.   Previously, you could ...

Scotti8

Casual Listener

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Download error
liked songs
Offline Access
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Can’t Play only downloaded songs?

PremiumiOS10 Spotify ver 8.4.94 I used to be able to pick “saved songs” from my library, and this would play every song i chose to download from any playlist. Now I’m only able to choose to play “favorite songs” (which are different from the songs i ...

Casual Listener

  Premium iOS10  Spotify ver 8.4.94   I used to be able to pick “saved songs” from my library, and this would play every song i chose to download from any playlist. Now I’m only a...

Moglum

Visitor

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Offline Access
Offline Content
Offline songs
saved songs
saved songs gone
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3 device max out

I keep trying to download my saved songs playlist but the app won't allow me, I know it isn't the storage that's an issue, my playlist consist of less that 100 songs. The error message keeps popping up that I've downloaded to more than 3 devices, the...

Newbie

I keep trying to download my saved songs playlist but the app won't allow me, I know it isn't the storage that's an issue, my playlist consist of less that 100 songs. The error message keeps popping ...

SNM

Regular

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devices
Download bug
Download error
Offline Access
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Solved!! Just Subscribed -- But Playlists and Songs say "Not Available Offline"

Hi, I just subscribed to premium because I want to be able to take my playlists with me on the go, but all of the songs are saying "this song isn't available offline." Am I doing something wrong??I use an iPod Touch 5th generation. The app version of...

Casual Listener

Hi,   I just subscribed to premium because I want to be able to take my playlists with me on the go, but all of the songs are saying "this song isn't available offline."  Am I doing somet...

Nico

Community Legend

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3 replies

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Songs won't download for offline

I have the latest version of Spotify Premium on my iPhone 6 and everything was working great up until the past few days. I save songs and they no longer automatically save for offline availability. I'm always on wifi when this happens and I have more...

Newbie

I have the latest version of Spotify Premium on my iPhone 6 and everything was working great up until the past few days. I save songs and they no longer automatically save for offline availability. I...

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Download error
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songs are not being downloaden

Device:iPhone 6Operating System Version:9.0.2 (13A452)Spotify Version:4.4.0.1576Description:I had my music stored on my iPhone in downloadquality normal. I changed this to high. The problem is that now still a lot of songs have to be downloaded/chang...

Casual Listener

Device: iPhone 6 Operating System Version: 9.0.2 (13A452) Spotify Version: 4.4.0.1576 Description: I had my music stored on my iPhone in downloadquality normal. I changed this to high. T...

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ios 9
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Uninstalling iOS App while Keeping Offline Tracks

I have not needed to do this yet, but I know there will come a day when I will need to uninstall and then reinstall the Spotify app. What I don't want to happen is lose the settings that I have added for offline songs and albums on my iPhone. Does an...

Visitor

I have not needed to do this yet, but I know there will come a day when I will need to uninstall and then reinstall the Spotify app. What I don't want to happen is lose the settings that I have added...

driveflanger

Community Legend

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iOS
Offline Access
Uninstall
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Offline Playlists on more than 3 devices?

After opening Spotify for iOS, this: So I sign into my account online and I see this: Only 2 devices, right? 1) What is happening?2) Why is it continuing to happen? This is probably the 5th time this has happened to me, it forces me to re-sync all pl...

Casual Listener

After opening Spotify for iOS, this:                                       &nbsp...

supervixen

Casual Listener

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Offline Access
offline availablity
Offline Devices
Offline playlists unavailable
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Solved!! Continuing to use removed tracks that have been synced

I currently use an older iPhone 4 as an iPod of sorts to sync most of my Spotify library to, and I then keep the phone on airplane to save battery. Ever since Neil Young's catalog was removed from Spotify, I've avoided turning the wifi on on the phon...

Newbie

I currently use an older iPhone 4 as an iPod of sorts to sync most of my Spotify library to, and I then keep the phone on airplane to save battery.    Ever since Neil Young's catalog was ...

DasPeter

Community Legend

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Offline Access
Offline listening
Offline songs
syncing
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Certain songs won't offline sync to iPhone

Hi!Just lately I am having trouble with syncing music offline to my iPhone 6.Any song which I have tried to add to the phone over the last week has not worked (no green 'available' icon displaying next to the track).I have been able to successfully s...

Newbie

Hi! Just lately I am having trouble with syncing music offline to my iPhone 6. Any song which I have tried to add to the phone over the last week has not worked (no green 'available' icon displayin...

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iphone
iphone6
Offline Access
offline play
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Offline

Hey! I'm having my first problem with this app and it's very aggravating. Anytime I have hit the "Available Offline" switch from off to on it syncs and every has been good. Recently I've noticed it hasn't been syncing my new songs. I've kinda ignored...

Newbie

Hey! I'm having my first problem with this app and it's very aggravating. Anytime I have hit the "Available Offline" switch from off to on it syncs and every has been good. Recently I've noticed it ...

radiuz

Roadie

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Offline Access
offline Album
Offline Devices
offline mode
offline playlists
Offline songs
offline sync
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Solved!! App Occasionally Resetting on iPhone

I'm wondering if someone can find a solution to the problem I'm having. Every so often (maybe every 10-20 times I open spotify on my iPhone 5) it will completely reset and say that I need to login again. Once I do, all my playlists are still there, b...

Regular

I'm wondering if someone can find a solution to the problem I'm having. Every so often (maybe every 10-20 times I open spotify on my iPhone 5) it will completely reset and say that I need to login ag...

blake

Community Legend

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5 replies

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Account
iOS
iphone
iphone 5
Offline Access
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Offline Playlist Default?

Hey, I was just wondering, if the following were to occur, would my streaming from my phone use data. -Mark a playlist as available to use offline. -Don't put the app into offline mode. -Still have some sort of 3G or wifi connection. Would the app kn...

Newbie

Hey,   I was just wondering, if the following were to occur, would my streaming from my phone use data. -Mark a playlist as available to use offline. -Don't put the app into offline mode...

user-removed

Not applicable

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data usage
iOS
Offline Access
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Solved!! Question about local files.

I've been trying to figure this out, as it's not specifically stated in the solutions... Can you not access your local files on Spotify offline even though their yours? (That's besides the fact that my Spotify spontaneously denied me access to all my...

Newbie

I've been trying to figure this out, as it's not specifically stated in the solutions... Can you not access your local files on Spotify offline even though their yours? (That's besides the fact that ...

trickykids

Casual Listener

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11 replies

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local files
Offline Access
synchronization
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Solved!! Offline playlist of local files causes app to crash

iOS 6.1.3iphone 4sSpotify version: 0.9.4Just upgraded to the latest version of Spotify for iOS. For some reason playing offline playlists with local files causes the app to crash in this latest version. I doesn't matter if I'm offline or online, wifi...

Music Fan

iOS 6.1.3 iphone 4s Spotify version: 0.9.4 Just upgraded to the latest version of Spotify for iOS. For some reason playing offline playlists with local files causes the app to crash in this late...

Strommingen

Music Fan

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Crash
local files
Offline Access
Offline playlists unavailable
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