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Google has finally released a Wear OS app for YouTube Music, which might sound like good news for people waiting for a way to play their music on Google’s streaming service after the company shut down Google Play Music on Wear OS in August 2020. But the new app comes with a few caveats.
The biggest problem 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 do so unless you have a Galaxy Watch 4 or Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.
If you are lucky enough to have one of the new watches, the YouTube Music Wear operating system will allow YouTube Premium subscribers to download music directly to their watch, which means you can listen to music with just a watch and a pair of bluetooth headphones, even when you don’t have an internet connection. However, based on 9to5Google Handy with the app, it looks like there could be some frustrating caveats that you’ll need to keep in mind when actually using the Wear OS YouTube Music app.
9to5Google says there doesn’t seem to be a way to flux music from the app – it looks like you can only download music at the moment. And annoyingly, you can only download songs when the watch is on a charger, 9to5Google reports.
Still, it’s good that a YouTube Music Wear OS app is available, even in its currently limited form. Google has not provided details on the app’s availability on other Wear OS devices.
