How To Add Spotify Music To Garmin Venu

Garmin has teamed upwardly with Spotify to offer the offline syncing of playlists to its sports watches – offer more people than ever the chance to untether from their smartphone and work out uninhibited.

That Spotify support at present works on a whole host of Garmin watches:

Fenix 5
Fenix vi Pro versions
Fenix 7
Forerunner 245 Music
Forerunner 645 Music
Forerunner 745
Precursor 945
Venu/Venu 2/Venu Sq
Vivoactive 4/4S
Garmin Marq

Read on for how to get started listening to Spotify from your Garmin sports watch. Any questions? Permit us know in the comments below.

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What you lot'll need:

Compatible Garmin watch (see above)
50% charge or more than
Spotify Premium (and the app installed on your phone).
A Wi-Fi connection for the music syncing

1. Get everything updated

Before you get started you volition need to brand certain everything is upwards to appointment. In fact, this part can take longer than anything else.

Hook your compatible watch to the Garmin Connect mobile app or to your PC/Mac to Garmin Express (this might also needed updating). Then when that's done and yous're updated, y'all're good to motility on.

2. Download Spotify

Spotify is an app within the Garmin Connect IQ ecosystem, which you can notice via the smartphone app.

Head to the Garmin Connect app and choose the More tab and then Connect IQ Store. In there, search for Spotify.

Press download, and and so guess what? Sync that Garmin watch once more.

3. Find the Garmin Spotify app

You should go a notification on your Garmin watch saying a new provider had been added after the sync has taken place. Nosotros didn't. Regardless, press and hold the Downwards button (positioned at vii o'clock) and yous'll see it nowadays in the list.

4. Add your login credentials

On the watch, scroll through the Spotify app and it will tell y'all to sign in using your Garmin Connect smartphone app.

And handily, a notification volition appear on your smartphone for you lot to jump directly to the sign in page. Login with your credentials, and the apps will be connected.

At present head back to the Spotify app on the sentry and run into all your playlists. You can now choose one.

v. Connect to Wi-Fi

If you lot watch isn't connected to Wi-Fi already, which ours wasn't and yours probably isn't, you will now demand to connect it.

The procedure isn't actually that painful. Choose your network and utilise the on-screen keyboard to blazon in the password. You can now successfully cull a playlist to sync.

6. Run to the beat

And at present you're done. The final bit you'll need is to connect a pair of Bluetooth headphones. That's simple besides. Just cull your platonic beats from the Spotify app on the picket and you'll be prompted to add together headphones.

Put your Bluetooth buds in pairing mode and let the picket observe them – when they pair it'south time to run.