It’s unclear why it took Samsung so long to marry its Gear watches with iPhone ( probably delayed things somewhat), but the South Korean company has put a lot of effort into ensuring users get a good experience. Some smartwatches — particularly those running Android Wear — are hobbled when connected to an iPhone; you can’t download new watch faces or third-party apps. But that’s not the case when you use a Gear smartwatch. Samsung’s new Gear app for iOS lets you grab new apps and watch faces from the Galaxy Apps store, send music and images to your wearable, and take control of notifications. It also syncs your health data with S Health, and helps you locate your Gear watch should you lose it. Of course, there are some limitations due to Apple’s strict rules for iOS apps, like you cannot setup Samsung Pay.

However, Samsung has done a pretty good job of making its Gear watches as useful as they can be when paired with Apple’s platform. There are two Gear apps available: lets you connect a Gear S2 or Gear S3, while lets you connect the Gear Fit2. Both are available to download from the App Store now.

The Samsung Gear S2 is compatible with most Android phones. Here's the complete list.

I bought the Gear Fit2 a week ago. I'm really happy with it! There's built-in support to change track and volume in the watch but it is not a stand-alone Spotify app. So no offline music, you need to have the phone within the range of Bluetooth.

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But then you can listen to offline playlists via the phone. There is however 2GB free space (out of a total of 4GB) for mp3's. The watch can play many sound formats. But for all music listening you need a Bluetooth headset.

If you have Spotify-connect speakers at home you can use the watch as a remote just like with the phone which I found pretty cool myself.:-). We have downloaded the spotify app onto Gear Fit 2. How do we sync the spotify music to the Geat Fit 2 in order to listen to the music on a jog with no mobile phone? We have downloaded a playlist in Spotify to make it available offline. We cannot find that playlist in any Galaxy s7 folder. When we open the Gear App, we click 'Send to Gear' and see 1 track available to be sent which is already on the Fit Gear 2. My searching for the downloaded spotify playlist led me to find that the 1 track already on Gear Fit 2 is in the 'Samsung/Music' folder.

Where is the downloaded Spotify playlist and how do I set it up to be sent to Gear? Thanks in advance!