The app for Apple Watch includes a YouTube Music complication for direct watch face combination. From the app itself, you can listen to and search YouTube music from the convenience of your Apple Watch, with all the controls you d expect, consisting of the ability to “like” tunes and integrated cast functionality.
The feature needs a YouTube Premium or Premium Music membership and deals with Series 3 and later on watches running watchOS 6 and above. Google informs us to “remain tuned” for updates on Wear OS schedule.
Googles forced transition from Play Music to YouTube Music caps this month. The Google Play music shop is now dead, The Play Music app forces you to transition your music library to YouTube Music, and Assistant devices are proactively changing music suppliers. For Wear OS users, the worst part of this shift is that Google Play Music supported Wear OS for ages. As part of the switch to YouTube Music, Google even proactively gotten rid of Wear OS support before the service was stopped and before YouTube Music had actually developed a replacement.
All this context translucented the lens of todays news leads us to a single conclusion: Google cares more about bringing YouTube Music to Apples wearables than its own platform. What does that say about the future of Wear OS or Googles dedication to it? “Stay tuned.”
Google has just revealed the launch of a YouTube Music app for the Apple Watch. For folks keeping rating at home, that means the streaming service all Google Music users are being required to migrate to has actually debuted support for Apples wearable platform before Googles own Wear OS. This makes the companys priorities pretty clear from where were standing.
Thanks, Google
