Pandora Introduces Standalone Apple Watch App, Stream Music and Podcasts With No iPhone Required

Pandora this week introduced a standalone Apple Watch app that allows you to stream music and podcasts from your wrist with no iPhone required.

Starting with ‌watchOS 6‌, developers are able to distribute apps built specifically for the ‌Apple Watch‌, without a companion app on iOS. These apps can be downloaded from the new App Store app on watchOS 6.

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Acquired by SiriusXM in 2018, Pandora is a streaming music service in the United States that features free, ad-supported radio. The service also offers two paid tiers, including Pandora Plus with personalized, ad-free radio for $4.99 per month and Pandora Premium with on-demand music and podcasts for $12.99 per month.

(Thanks, Stefan Constantine!)

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Top Rated Comments

cardfan Avatar
65 months ago
Didn’t know pandora was still a thing.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
V_Man Avatar
64 months ago

I can't even make it through a day on my series 4 watch & I just play music on my phone. There's no hope for my watch if I start playing music with this app.
What do you do with your watch? I can get almost 2 days on my series 4
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Agit21 Avatar
65 months ago
No Spotify offline playback - no buy.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
adambomb78 Avatar
65 months ago
I can't even make it through a day on my series 4 watch & I just play music on my phone. There's no hope for my watch if I start playing music with this app.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sjinsjca Avatar
64 months ago
This will be really nice for when I'm out for a run since I leave my phone behind.
I haven't been able to get it to work over a cell connection. Over WiFi, it works well, though it got into a mode where it would only act as a remote for my iPhone app. I turned off the phone, delete the app from the Watch, re-downloaded it from the Watch App Store, and it returned to autonomous functionality. I hope it doesn't make a habit of switching to remote-only functionality.

UPDATE:

Ugh, it does.

I had it streaming via WiFi with my phone turned off. Turned phone back on, no problem. Turned phone back off, the Watch app stopped streaming and refuses to re-start, presenting me with:



There appears to be no way to get the app running independently again. Force-killing it doesn't help.

So, Pandora still has some work to do.

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Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jacjustjac Avatar
65 months ago

I can't even make it through a day on my series 4 watch & I just play music on my phone. There's no hope for my watch if I start playing music with this app.
Even better because a good portion of the time and battery would be spent loading ads.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)