To get started with Outcast, you first tell it what podcasts you like, either by entering a podcast’s feed URL into the iPhone app or browsing the app’s directory of podcasts on the watch by network (such as Relay FM) or topic (such as “technology”). Although it must exist as an iOS app to also provide a watchOS app, Outcast focuses on the Apple Watch and provides little corresponding iPhone functionality. Outcast ($0.99) is a rarity: a full-featured, phone-like app distilled onto the tiny Apple Watch screen. Link AirPods or other Bluetooth audio devices to your Apple Watch, and you are good to go.Įach app has its own approach - with pros and cons - for achieving this watch-as-iPod feat, so there is something here for everybody. They all have rough edges and varying degrees of glitchiness.īut they do what they claim: turn an Apple Watch into a modern-day iPod (at least for podcasts) by copying the audio files from the iPhone to the watch. I have been testing five such apps and - spoiler - I’m not ecstatic about them. What about that Apple Watch on your wrist? Apple provides no way to move podcasts from iPhone to Apple Watch, but a handful of third-party apps do offer this functionality. In the past, you might have solved the problem by loading podcasts on one of Apple’s tiny iPods, but non-iOS iPods are no longer readily available (see “ Apple Discontinues the iPod nano and iPod shuffle,” 31 July 2017). Listening to podcasts when you’re out and about can be an enjoyable, enlightening, and efficient use of time, but sometimes - when you are exercising, say - you want to leave your iPhone behind. #1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.
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