2 Best Ways to Play Tidal on Apple Watch

By Li ZhangUpdated on December 17, 2022

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When talk about music streaming services, there are so many options for music fans for choosing. As we know, Tidal Music, Apple Music, Spotify Music and Amazon Music are the top 4 music streaming services. Compare with the different audio quality and different subscribed plans, Tidal is unique. How to play Tidal Music on Apple Watch? Tidal has announced its app now, and it is available on a wide variety of wearable devices, including Apple Watch. It means that you can listen to Tidal on your Apple Watch.

However only the Tidal subscribers can stream Tidal Music directly on the Apple Watch. You should pay $9.99 a month to get a HiFi subscription or cost $19.99 per month to subscribe to a HiFi Plus account. And if you want to play Tidal on Apple Watch, you should keep subscribing to this music streaming service. The subscribed Tidal Music, like other music streaming services, it will be grayed once you stop the subscription from it. Are there any ways to play Tidal Music on the Apple Watch always, even without Tidal subscription? The answer is YES. Please check the follow passages, and you will get the detail answer.

CONTENTS

Part A: Play Streaming Tidal Music on Apple Watch Directly

Tidal Music can be played on a wide variety of wearable devices, including Apple Watch. But not all the Apple Watch models can run the Tidal app. The following Apple Watch models compatible with Tidal app. Follow the steps to get the Tidal app on your Apple Watch, then listen to streaming Tidal songs on Apple Watch directly.

Compatible devices:

1) Apple Watch 3 or above
2) WatchOS 7.1 or above

Steps to Play Tidal on Apple Watch:

Step 1. Download and launch the Tidal app on your Apple Watch.

Step 2. Go to link.tidal.com on your iPhone or PC.
Step 3. Log in if you are an existing member, or sign up to Tidal.
Step 4. Enter the code displayed on your Apple Watch to link to your account and begin streaming your favorite songs.

Once the Tidal app is installed, you are able to stream Tidal Music on your Apple Watch.

Part B: Download Tidal Music and Import to Apple Watch(Recommended)

How to listen to Tidal Music on Apple Watch without Tidal subscription? A useful program you need called UKeySoft Tidal Music Converter. This program supports converting Tidal Music to several of common audio formats, which makes Tidal Music be compatible with Apple Watch. The supported formats include M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF.

UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter helps to download Tidal songs/playlists/albums to local files, and save it to the computer as common formats audio files. It will keep original Hi-Fi audio quality and ID3 tags during the conversion. Most importantly, is not require of any extra app in the conversion. Once finishes downloading Tidal Music to the computer, you can transfer the downloaded music to your iPhone, and then sync the music to Apple Watch.

See More about UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter:

• Download Tidal Music for HiFi and HiFi Plus Users
• Download Tidal Music keeping its high audio quality
• Download Tidal to M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF audio formats file
• Play Tidal Music on all devices
• Play Tidal Music without subscription
• No need to install Tidal app
• Preserve with ID3 tags, metadata kept
• 10X conversion speed

Highlights of UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter:

Convert All Contents from Tidal Music Contents
Convert for Tidal songs/albums/playlists efficiently.

Convert Tidal Music to Various Audio Formats
Convert Tidal Music to various audio formats, including M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, AIFF.

Preserve with Original High Audio Quality
Preserve with original high audio quality in output Tidal songs/albums/playlists.

Built in Tidal Music Web Player
UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter program built in Tidal Music web player, not Tidal app running required during the conversion.

Convert Tidal Music Fast and Efficiently
Convert Tidal Music contents with 10X faster conversion speed, provide with a batch conversion, it will save your time in the whole music conversion, even when you have a lot of songs need to be converted.

Tutorial to Download Tidal Music to Computer and sync to Apple Watch:

Step 1. Run UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter
The first step, download, install and run UkeySoft Tidal Music Converter on the computer, which features a built-in Tidal web player.

Step 2. Log in Your Tidal Account
Follow the instructions to log in your Tidal account.

Step 3. Choose Output Format
The default output format is M4A. UkeySoft also supports MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF. Here, MP3, WAV, AIFF are Apple Watch supported audio formats. You can choose one of it.

The combination of Title, Artist, Album, Track Number, Playlist Index can be edited also.

Step 4. Add Tidal Songs/Playlists/Albums
Click Tidal songs/playlists/albums you want to download to the computer.

Then click the red icon to load songs. All songs in the playlist will be added by default. You can remove the songs if you don't need.

Step 5. Download Tidal Music to the Computer
In the final step, simply click "Convert" button to begin downloading and converting Tidal Music to computer with the format you choose. Then the output music will be saved to the computer as common audio files.

Step 6.Transfer Downloaded Music to iPhone
You can sync the downloaded music to your iPhone with iTunes, or transfer the downloaded music to your iPhone via USB cable.

Sync Music from iTunes to iPhone:
Open iTunes on your computer and click "Music" on the upper left corner of the interface and choose File > Add File to Library to upload music to iTunes. Then sync music from iTunes to your iPhone.

Step 7. Sync Tidal Music to Apple Watch

Now follow the steps to sync Tidal Music from iPhone to Apple Watch:

Turn on Bluetooth on iPhone, then open Apple Watch app and choose "My Watch". Scroll down to "Music" and tap it, then tap the "Add Music" to add music. Find the downloaded music and press the add icon next to the music.

Now all the selected downloaded Tidal Music have sync to Apple Watch. You can offline playback the Tidal Music on Apple Watch anywhere, anytime, even without subscription.

In conclude

We suggest you use method 2 to sync Tidal Music with Apple Watch. The process seems a little complicated, but it is the best way to let you stream Tidal songs to Apple Watch. Then you can freely offline playback Tidal Music on Apple Watch including Tidal Hi-Fi(Plus) Music without subscription.

Li Zhang

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Li Zhang

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Li Zhang

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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