Spotify has had a dedicated streaming app for Wear OS for years, allowing users to control the music they listen to on their smartphone or computer. While wrist-based controls have been convenient at times, we still had to carry our smartphones or laptops around in order to stream music. This made the existence of the Spotify app on a watch nearly useless when you don’t have your phone with you, like when you’re cooking, running, or doing activities that don’t require you to pull your phone out of your pocket.

The streaming service is now solving this problem in the latest update coming to Wear OS devices. It’s possible thanks to a new feature: the ability to download Spotify songs directly to your watch for offline playback. In this post, we’ll cover how offline playback works with Spotify on Wear OS, how to get it working, and how to download content directly to your Wear OS smartwatch.

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With the latest update, Spotify has given users the ability to download songs and podcasts to their smartwatches without having to connect to their smartphone or computer. Users can now store their favorite music and podcasts on their watch and listen to them offline when they’re not connected to a Wi-Fi network or their smartphone. Since Wear OS allows you to connect directly to a pair of Bluetooth headphones, you no longer need to have your phone with you when playing music or podcasts on Spotify.