HOW TO Master Music on Apple Watch

1 Open the app

The fastest way to move music to your Apple Watch is in the Watch app on your iPhone. In My Watch, scroll down until you see Music and tap on it. You’ll now see this screen, which lists what music, if any, is on your Watch.

2 Pick a playlist

Tap on Add Music and you can now browse your playlists, artists and albums. When you’ve found something that you want to add to your Watch, tap on the ‘+’ towards the top right of the screen to queue it for downloading.

3 Power up

To save battery life, your Watch won’t copy music across unless it’s being charged. When it is connected you’ll see the little progress ring as your playlist, album or selection is transferred across to your Apple Watch.

4 Bring the noise

When you’ve transferred all of your tunes, press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch and navigate to the Music app. Tap on it and it’ll open and show your music, in this case the playlist we’ve just transferred across from our iPhone.

5 Add some more

Transferring from your phone is fast, but what if you’re out and about, listening to an absolute banger and want to save that to your Watch so you can listen offline to that too? No problem. Find the song in Music and tap on ‘…’.

6 Install the ABBA

You can do multiple things here, including adding a song or album to a playlist. The Download option copies the music to the storage on your Watch. In this example, we’re going to make sure we always have access to ABBA.

7 Get in the queue

The same restrictions apply to downloads as transfers; nothing happens until you’re connected to Wi-Fi and your Watch is being charged. If you’re out and about, the song, artist or playlist will be added to the download queue for later.

8 Transfer the tunes

We’re back home, our Apple Watch is connected to Wi-Fi and is being charged. Our download queue will now start to transfer the songs, and as you can see there’s a progress ring in the lower right-hand corner.

9 Back to the app

If you open the Music section of the Watch app on your iPhone, you’ll see that the download appears in the library here too. If you want to remove downloaded music, tap on Edit in the upper right-hand corner and then on the red Delete button.