月份: 2021 年 8 月
YouTube Music won’t let you sideload the app on older Wear OS smartwatches
Don’t expect to run YouTube Music on older Wear OS smartwatches through unofficial means.
What you need to know
A new report suggests you can’t sideload YouTube Music onto older Wear OS smartwatches.
The music streaming app requires smartwatches to be running only Wear OS 3.
For now, Google’s music streaming app will work only with Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 series.
YouTube Music finally became available on Wear OS 3 a few days ago, marking the first time that Google’s music streaming app goes live on a non-Apple smartwatch. However, the catch is that you can’t get the app to work with older Wear OS watches in any way, even unofficial ones.
9to5Google reports that sideloading YouTube Music onto older smartwatches won’t work, contrary to the expectation of some people who often resort to that method for installing files using APK. As you may be aware already, the app is compatible only with devices running Wear OS 3 such as the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 series, which is the first sma…