Garmin made good on its promise to Forerunner 645 Music owners, rolling out Spotify support for those watches at the end of October. After a few additional months of development, the Spotify app.
If you happen to own a Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music, you’re in luck — Spotify support is rolling out today!
Up until now, Vivoactive 3 Music owners have only been able to locally load up music, or download playlists through iHeartRadio or Deezer. Now one of the world’s most popular music services is coming to the smartwatch.
Vivoactive 3 Music owners who also subscribe to Spotify Premium can now download audio from Spotify to their watches for offline listening on the go. The process is pretty simple — just create a Spotify playlist of your choice and sync it with your Vivoactive 3 Music over Wi-Fi. Then, simply navigate to Spotify on your watch and start listening.
The Spotify app for the Vivoactive 3 Music should be live on the Connect IQ store now. Again, you’ll have to be a Spotify Premium subscriber to use this feature. You can try Spotify Premium at this link.
Last year, the Garmin Forerunner 645 Music and Fenix 5 Plus series gained Spotify support. This is an important update for the Vivoactive 3 Music. Non-Wear OS and Apple Watch devices are notoriously lacking in third-party app support, and the addition of Spotify is certainly a welcome one.
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Previously available only on the Garmin Fenix 5 Plus Series (introduced last year) and the Forerunner 345 Music, as of today Spotify is now also available on the more affordable Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music smartwatch.
Garmin Vivoactive 3 App Store
Garmin’s partnership with Spotify was announced back in October, with the popular music app available on two of its higher-end models, and runners celebrated being able to enjoy their music on the go without having to strap their phone to their arms. The inclusion of the Vivoactive 3 Music makes the music interface that much more accessible.
The partnership allows users to download and store playlists, sync their Garmin with their smartphone using Wifi, and listen to music via the Spotify app on the same gadget they use to track their mileage and pace.
Vivoactive 3 users can download the Spotify app via the Connect IQ store in the Garmin Connects app.
Battery life in GPS mode with music is up to five hours, which should get you comfortably through your longer runs and races.
Spotify App For Garmin Vivoactive 3s
The Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music retails for $389.99 CDN.
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