YouTube Music won’t let you sideload the app on older Wear OS smartwatches

Supply: Daniel Bader / Android Central

YouTube Music after all turned into to be had on Wear OS 3 a couple of days in the past, marking the first time that Google’s tune streaming app is going reside on a non-Apple smartwatch. Alternatively, the catch is that you can not get the app to paintings with older Wear OS watches by any means, even unofficial ones.

9to5Google studies that sideloading YouTube Music onto older smartwatches won’t paintings, opposite to the expectation of a few individuals who frequently lodge to that way for putting in information the usage of APK. As you is also conscious already, the app is appropriate most effective with gadgets operating Wear OS 3 reminiscent of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 collection, which is the first smartwatch to run the running machine.

In a take a look at finished via the people at 9to5Google, the APK used to be ripped from the Galaxy Watch 4 and sideloaded onto the Moto 360, unsuccessfully. The mistake used to be because of the app requiring the instrument to be operating Android 11 (API degree 30). Recently, older Wear OS smartwatches are operating Android 9 (API degree 28), so any try to sideload YouTube Music to these gadgets can be meaningless.

Different customers additionally attempted to switch the APK to make it paintings with older variations of Wear OS via decreasing the app’s minimal API degree to twenty-eight. Alternatively, this rendered the Google login give a boost to damaged, combating YouTube Music from functioning.

It looks as if the most effective method you can concentrate in your favourite songs on the app is to buy Samsung’s newest wearables. On the other hand, you can wait slightly longer till Wear OS 3 arrives on a few of the best possible Android smartwatches.