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Spotify and Other Music and Podcasts Apps Can Choose to Support Siri in iOS 13

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Hey Siri, play Old Town Road on Spotify.

Ask that now and Siri will tell you that it cannot play songs from Spotify, but that could change soon. Apple is opening up its SiriKit framework to third-party music, podcasts, audiobooks, and radio apps in iOS 13 and iPadOS, enabling users to use Siri to control audio playback in supported apps.

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Mockup of Siri support for Spotify​

It will be up to developers to enable this functionality in their apps. We've reached out to Spotify, Amazon, Google, Pandora, Tidal, Overcast, Castro, and several other popular music and podcasts app developers to see if they have plans to support Siri, and we'll update this story if we hear back.

Spotify recently accused Apple of anticompetitive business practices, and its inability to integrate with Siri was one of its complaints. "Apple won't allow us to be on HomePod and they definitely won't let us connect with Siri to play your jams," said Spotify. Going forward, the latter is no longer the case.

The first betas of iOS 13 and iPadOS were seeded to developers on Monday, with public betas to follow in July. The software updates will be widely released in the fall, likely alongside new iPhones in September as usual.

Article Link: Spotify and Other Music and Podcasts Apps Can Choose to Support Siri in iOS 13
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/05/siri-supports-music-podcasts-apps-ios-13/
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THE. ****. OUT. OF. HERE. I never thought I'd see them do this. If they open up AdBlockers to be system wide again and have PiP for YouTube and Twitch, I will definitely switch back over to iOS.
 
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edgonzalez32 said:
THE. ****. OUT. OF. HERE. I never thought I'd see them do this. If they open up AdBlockers to be system wide again and have PiP for YouTube and Twitch, I will definitely switch back over to iOS.
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Not sure about Twitch but I can PiP for YT on iPad. Just use a 3rd party browser, navigate to a YT video and the minimise button appears on the player. I use the feature daily and only use the YT App to browse content now.

Also - there's no ads.
 
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Love that the mockup is just a screenshot with one word changed to "Spotify". :p
 
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Spotify recently accused Apple of anticompetitive business practices, and its inability to integrate with Siri was one of its complaints. "Apple won't allow us to be on HomePod and they definitely won't let us connect with Siri to play your jams," said Spotify. Going forward, the latter is no longer the case.
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And the former isn't currently the case; you can play Spotify on your HomePod. True, it's not as easy as playing Apple Music, but Spotify isn't being honest.
 
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This would be great if it worked for HomePod too, but I seriously doubt that's the case... which would make owning a HomePod but using a third party service still frustrating.
 
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Rudy69 said:
Finally! I hope Spotify will get going on that quickly....
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Who knows they are trying to convince the EU about Apple being a monopoly be curious if they will offer siri support after everything.
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AngerDanger said:
Love that the mockup is just a screenshot with one word changed to "Spotify". :p
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The best but worst photoshop pic lol
 
Siri is still barely usable when runing non-English country settings and asking for English songs, singers or movies (which is naturally quite a lot). I hope this also will improve further.
 
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x-evil-x said:
there needs to be Siri support system wide for every app.
I hate that I can't use Siri for my nest. or deeper Siri commands for lifx bulbs that the developer can add for shortcuts to scenes for their bulbs/led strips.
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Nest/Google have decided not to support HomeKit; that's not Apple's fault. For Lifx, I also believe this falls on them to add shortcuts support to their app; I don't know if there's anything missing in iOS 12 from getting this to work.
 
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This just shows how Spotify was right and they had no access to Siri prior to iOS 13.
I guess lawsuits do come in handy.

Next lawsuit, trying to hide the notch in iPhone XS marketing pictures. Maybe they'll get rid of it for good.
 
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edgonzalez32 said:
THE. ****. OUT. OF. HERE. I never thought I'd see them do this. If they open up AdBlockers to be system wide again and have PiP for YouTube and Twitch, I will definitely switch back over to iOS.
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Twitch has pip and YouTube Is missing the feature because google wants you to pay for premium YouTube
 
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Tapiture said:
Apple is letting water out to ease pressure on the dam, so to speak. Nevertheless, glad they’re opening Siri up to competitors.
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Or maybe this has been part of the road map all along, and like any other technical endeavor, it took time to implement. Pure speculation either way.
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1050792 said:
This just shows how Spotify was right and they had no access to Siri prior to iOS 13.
I guess lawsuits do come in handy.

Next lawsuit, trying to hide the notch in iPhone XS marketing pictures. Maybe they'll get rid of it for good.
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No, it doesn't show that at all.
 
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They have only done this so Spotify has less weight in their Antitrust case. Wish they would finally allow setting different system defaults too!
 
jimothyGator said:
Nest/Google have decided not to support HomeKit; that's not Apple's fault. For Lifx, I also believe this falls on them to add shortcuts support to their app; I don't know if there's anything missing in iOS 12 from getting this to work.
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Sadly I think this will be why I switch to Ecobee and cancel my nest doorbell order. It’s a business decision that I think will have a bad outcome for google.
 
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This really deserves a finally. But how are all those who think Apple is this anti-competitive monopoly going to spin this?
 
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