{"id":8644,"date":"2021-08-27T21:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/08\/27\/youll-need-wear-os-3-to-use-the-smartwatch-youtube-music-app\/"},"modified":"2021-08-27T22:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T20:09:37","slug":"youll-need-wear-os-3-to-use-the-smartwatch-youtube-music-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/08\/27\/youll-need-wear-os-3-to-use-the-smartwatch-youtube-music-app\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#039;ll Need Wear OS 3 To Use The Smartwatch YouTube Music App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Music for Wear OS is here, that is, if you have a Wear OS 3 smartwatch. Which currently only includes the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. According to 9To5Google, you will need a smartwatch running on Wear OS 3 for the YouTube Music app to work.<br \/>\nGoogle isn\u2019t releasing the app for older smartwatches running on Wear OS 2. Which means your only option for getting the app on your Fossil Gen 5 or similar devices, is to sideload it. Except, this won\u2019t do you any good. Once you sideload the app, it still won\u2019t work. So you\u2019ll have to use something else instead. Spotify for example.<br \/>\nSideloading YouTube Music on older Wear OS devices requires API level 30<br \/>\nWhat this comes down to is that the app requires a minimum API level of 30 to function. In other words the software has to be based on Android 11. Wear OS 2 isn\u2019t based on Android 11 though. It\u2019s based on Android 9 and has an API level of 28.<br \/>\nSo sideloading the app only ends up giving you an error message. If you\u2019re savvy enough to lower the API level to match Wear OS 2, you could get the app to install. But then you\u2019ll just end up with another issue. Specifically not being able to login to your Google account to use the app.<br \/>\nSince Google doesn\u2019t appear to have any plans to release YouTube Music for smartwatches running on the older software, you\u2019re out of luck if you were hoping to use it.<br \/>\nThis is mostly a shame for anyone that was heavily invested in Google Play Music. Now that Google has shut down that particular service, which did work with Wear OS 2, your only option for keeping all of your music was to transfer it something like YouTube Music.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, that leaves anyone who did so without a way to use their older Wear OS smartwatches for music playback. Unless they switch to using Spotify or some other option. The good news for some TicWatch owners at least, is that Wear OS 3 will eventually come to a handful of those devices. So YouTube Music will be an option at that point.<br \/>\nThe post You&#8217;ll Need Wear OS 3 To Use The Smartwatch YouTube Music App appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/YouTube-Music-Wear-OS-3.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Music for Wear OS is here, that is, if you have a Wear OS 3 smartwatch. 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