YouTube Music finally gets a Wear OS app

If you're a YouTube Music user and have a smartwatch running the latest Wear OS 2 version, you can finally listen to YouTube Music on the wearable. It's possible to stream over LTE or Wi-Fi without your smartphone. You can download songs to it to listen to while offline, control playback, manage downloads, and like songs all from your wrist. The YouTube Music tile will act like a quick-launch remote for recently played playlists, and you can also browse the main page of the app.

If you're a premium subscriber, you won't have to endure ads and get access to that download function. It will also start aggregating new playlists based on your listening history.

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Telegram's version 8.0 update brings new features, but drops Wear OS app

Telegram's latest update brings some new features, but it looks like it also got rid of a feature. The version 8.0 update doesn't include the Wear OS app. 9to5Google noted that the app has vanished from the Play Store on Wear OS. When you search for it, it no longer appears. But if you have the app already, it should stay put.

The update brings features like unlocking the limits on the size of a live stream's audience. You can now hide captions or the sender's name with messaging forwarding. Telegram will also now show trending stickers, and it improved sticker selection on the Android app. If you send emojis as a single message, these will be animated.

Source: 9to5Google

Spotify starts rolling our offline playback support on Wear OS

Spotify will let Wear OS users listen to their tunes without an internet connection with support for offline playback. The music streaming service has begun rolling this feature out. But there are caveats to this feature. You need a Wear OS 2.0 or newer device, and only Spotify Premium subscribers can download albums and playlists for offline listening. As for podcasts, both paid and free users can download these for offline playback.

Source: The Verge

Wear OS watches running on Snapdragon Wear 3100 won't get upgraded to next-gen OS

Mobvoi TicWatch E3 will be eligible for Wear OS 3 update

With the announcement of Google and Samsung's new Wear OS platform, which is officially called Wear OS 3, we already know that it isn't the best time to purchase existing smartwatches on Google's platform. But now, we get a clearer picture of which smartwatches you should avoid getting. Those using older Android smartwatches running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset won't be getting the next-generation operating system.

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