How To Stream Music On Iphone Without Using Data

We know that streaming Spotify music on iPhone isn't a hard thing ever, all you need to do is downloading the Spotify app from Apple Store, login your account and you will be all set. However, did you know how much data it will consume while streaming Spotify with cellular data? According to the test provided by some users, Spotify music streams at 320kbps maximum, this means a three-minute song uses up approximately 7.2MB. Assuming that you listen to an average of one hour of music every day, this would consume at a monthly data usage of approximately 4.2GB.

If you are wondering how to listen to Spotify music without data on your iPhone, keep reading the following section as here we will provide you two solutions for it: the first one is to use Spotify Offline Mode, which lets you play all your downloaded songs and podcasts without a connection, and another one is to use a trusted third party program to download Spotify tracks, albums, and podcasts to digital copy .mp3. Now let's start the illustration.

Play Spotify music offline

Method 1: Use Spotify Offline Mode

If you are a Spotify Premium user, you just need few steps to download Spotify tracks, albums, playlists and podcast to your iPhone and set the Offline Mode on Spotify app. Now let's check the easy tutorial on how to set Spotify Offline Mode, so that you can listen to Spotify music anywhere without data.

Step 1 Download Spotify music, playlist or podcast

Before going to Offline Mode, you need to download the songs or playlists that you want to listen with internet connected (better with a Wifi connection). You can open the music or playlist you want to download, then switch on Download button at the top right of any song or playlist.

Download Button on iPhone

Step 2 Set Spotify Offline Mode

Once you've downloaded all the music and playlist, you can go ahead to set the Offline Mode of Spotify app.

Go to your Library page --> tap on --> tap on Playback --> switch on Offline.

Spotify Offline Mode

With Spotify Offline Mode on, you can now stream music that you have downloaded without data.

This tutorial will guide you to how to download Spotify tracks orplaylists to PC or Mac with Sidify Music Converter (we use Sidify Mac version as the demo here).

Step 1 Run Sidify Music Converter

Launch Sidify Music Converter on your computer. Spotify app will be loaded automatically.

Main interface

Step 2 Add Spotify Track, Playlist, or Podcast

Click icon at the upper left corner of Sidify main interface, and a separate adding window will be shown. You can find the track, playlist or podcast you want to download on Spotify, then copy the link to the clipboard. Or you can drag & drop a track, playlist or podcast to Sidify Music Converter directly.

After Sidify finishing analyzing the link, you can click "OK" to check the music files you have added.

Add Spotify Songs or Playlist

Step 3 Customize the Output Parameters

You can click on button at the upper right corner of Sidify, and a new dialogue box will pop up to let you choose the output format (MP3, AAC, FLAC, or WAV), conversion mode, output quality (320kbps, 256kbps and 128kbps).

Note: To save the output audio into organized folder, you can choose the organized folder as Artist, Album, Artist/Album, or Album/Artist.

choose aac as the output format

Step 4 Start Downloading Songs or Podcast from Spotify

Now you can click on "CONVERT" button to start downloading Spotify track, playlist, or podcast to the plain audio format you chosen.

After the downloading process completed, you can click the Converted tab to check the well downloaded Spotify music.

Downloading and Converting

This program is a very useful tool to convert the tracks from Spotify and it works for both Spotify Free and Premium account. If your computer runs Windows system, please refer to the article How to Download Music from Spotify Free for the tutorial for Windows PC.

Note: The trial version of Sidify Music Converter enables us to convert the first 3-minute audio from Spotify for sample testing, you can purchase the full version to unlock the time limitation.