YouTube Music app now available for Google, Wear OS devices

YouTube Music app

The YouTube Music Wear OS will let YouTube Premium subscribers download music right to their watch

Google recently released the YouTube Music streaming service on its WearOS platform. As per The Verge, Google released a Wear OS app for YouTube Music, which Google’s streaming service after the company shut down Google Play Music on Wear OS in August 2020. However, the new app comes with a few restrictions. The biggest catch is that the new app only works on one of Samsung’s two new watches powered by Wear OS 3, according to Google.

These watches won’t be available until August 27, so even if you want to try the new app right now, you won’t be able to unless you have a Galaxy Watch 4 or a Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.

Android Police says that the new YouTube Music app will be available for the Galaxy Watch4 series first and afterward for all smartwatches that will be running on the new Wear OS platform.

The YouTube Music Wear OS will let YouTube Premium subscribers download music right to their watch, meaning you can listen to tunes with just a watch and a pair of Bluetooth headphones, even when you don’t have an internet connection.

However, based on 9to5Google’s hands-on with the app, it sounds like there might be some frustrating restrictions when you’re actually using the Wear OS YouTube Music app.

9to5Google says there doesn’t appear to be a way to stream music from the app — it appears that you can only download music right now. And annoyingly, you can only download songs while the watch is on a charger.

Google hasn’t shared details about when the app might be available on other Wear OS devices.

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