Play music on Apple Watch
Use the Music app to choose and play music on Apple Watch. You can play music stored on Apple Watch, control music on your iPhone, and stream music from Apple Music if you’re a subscriber.
Ask Siri. Say something like:
“Play ‘You Need To Calm Down’”
“Play more songs from this album”
“Play my workout playlist”
Play music
After you connect Apple Watch to Bluetooth headphones or speakers, open the Music app on your Apple Watch, then do any of the following:
Play music on your Apple Watch: Turn the Digital Crown to scroll through album artwork, then tap a playlist or album to play it.
Use the Apple Watch app on your iPhone to choose which songs to add to Apple Watch.
Play music from iPhone (Bluetooth pairing not required): Scroll to the top of the screen, tap On iPhone, then tap a playlist, artist, album, or song to play it.
Play music from your music library: Tap Library, then tap an album, playlist, or song not on your Apple Watch to play it.
Listen to Apple Music (Apple Music subscription required): Raise your wrist, then request an artist, album, song, or genre.
Play music for you
If you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you can play music chosen just for you.
Open the Music app on your Apple Watch.
Scroll to the top of the screen, then tap For You to view a curated feed of playlists and albums based on your likes and dislikes.
Tap a category, tap an album or playlist, then tap .
Open the Up Next queue
When playing music, you can see a list of upcoming songs in the Up Next queue.
Open the Music app on your Apple Watch.
Play an album or playlist, then tap .
To play a track in the queue, tap it.
To add music to the queue, swipe left on a song, playlist, or album; tap ; then tap Play Next or Play Later. Music you choose to play later is added to the end of the queue.
Tell Music what you like, add music to the library, and more
On Apple Watch you can add music to your library, remove songs, mark what you do and don’t like, add songs to the Up Next queue, and view the contents of albums and playlists. Do any of the following:
View options from the Now Playing screen: While playing music, tap , then choose an option.
View options in For You and Library: Swipe left on a song, playlist, or album; tap ; then choose an option.
Control playback
Turn the Digital Crown to adjust volume. Use these controls to play music on your Apple Watch and iPhone:
Play the current song. | |||||||||||
Pause playback. | |||||||||||
Skip to the next song. | |||||||||||
Skip to the beginning of the song; double-tap to skip to the previous song. |
Shuffle or repeat music
Shuffle albums, songs, artists, from the Music screen: Tap an album, artist, or playlist, then tap .
Shuffle or repeat music from the playback screen: While viewing the playback screen, tap , then tap or .
Tap Repeat twice to repeat a song.