Spotify Testing Siri Support on iOS 13

[MacRumors]

Spotify has added Siri support to the latest beta version of its iOS app, allowing users to ask Siri to play songs, albums, and playlists in Spotify on an iPhone running iOS 13 or later, as noted by The Verge's Tom Warren.

Apple opened 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. It is now up to third-party apps to take advantage of this functionality, with Spotify and Pandora among the first to do so.

When asking Siri to play a song, album, or so forth, users must specify "on Spotify" or else the feature defaults to Apple Music.

Spotify is finally getting Siri support with iOS 13. You can ask Siri to play songs, albums, and playlists. Here's how it works: https://t.co/Oc7LegT5yr pic.twitter.com/6F97fbjLtX - Tom Warren (@tomwarren) September 27, 2019

Spotify's inability to offer the same Siri integration as Apple Music was one of the tentpoles of its anticompetitive complaint against Apple that it filed with the European Commission earlier this year.

Spotify has not provided a timeframe for rolling out Siri support to all users, but we will provide an update when that happens.

Article Link: Spotify Testing Siri Support on iOS 13

 

[Joseph C]

Will it work on HomePod?

 

[IRockThat828pScreen]

Ugh finally

 

[Adoniram]

This is great news! I love Spotify and I love
my HomePod but getting Spotify to play on it has required too many clicks lol.

 

[sundog925]

god I love Taylor Swift

 

[ChrisMoBro]

I just need to be able to download songs from Spotify to my Apple Watch and my migration to Spotify will be complete

 

[sinoka56]

how about setting a default player？ ?

 

[jonnysods]

Please let it be true!!!! That would be awesome.

 

[FlyingDutch]

How is Spotify relevant in Apple ecosystem ?

 

[WWPD]

With the way things are going Apple should just go open source, every change like this makes investing in the Apple Ecosystem less and less relevant.

 

[Jason2000]

I wish Spotify would add the ability to download songs to the Apple Watch to be played back without an iPhone. I hate Apple Music but use it for this one feature alone. I know I could use Pandora but I don't like them either.
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god I love Taylor Swift

I have lost whatever respect I had for you...lol.

 

[FreeSpeechFirst]

More improvements are always a good thing.

 

[Rogifan]

Took Apple long enough to provide this support. Can you set music defaults so you don’t have to say “on Spotify“?

 

[bumbo]

Set default source to something other than Apple Music coming in iOS... NEVER

 

[head_bigg]

Took Apple long enough to provide this support. Can you set music defaults so you don’t have to say “on Spotify“?

In theory, couldn't we create a custom Shortcut to avoid the "on Spotify" command?

 

[macfacts]

So clunky you have to say on spotify. Can't Siri remember you mainly use Spotify?

 

[Cergman]

Tesla and Siri getting Spotify support in the same week! Great news!

 

[skadd]

It would be nice if Spotify actually could resume playing after watching a video somewhere.

 

[Khedron]

Apple should just build in Alexa support, like every other product does these days...

"Hey Siri, ask Alexa to play my music"

 

[ignatius345]

How is Spotify relevant in Apple ecosystem ?

I am currently using my iMac to control playback of an instance of Spotify running on an iPad in the other room, which is in turn AirPlaying to my Apple TV and the great speakers it's hooked up to. I can pass playback to my iPhone, which has several thousand songs cached for offline use -- or indeed any of the Apple devices I own.

Relevant enough for you?

 

[Graphikos]

Apple should just build in Alexa support, like every other product does these days...

"Hey Siri, ask Alexa to play my music"

But this is about Spotify... "Hey Siri, ask Alexa to play Taylor Swift on Spotify". Done.

 

[nburwell]

Ugh finally

My thoughts exactly. Definitely looking forward to using this one it's pushed to the public.

 

[DiscoMcDisco]

Sadly not in the version I’ve just updated to... hopefully soon. I’m hoping it comes with shortcut support.

 

[theman510]

Can't wait. Will be awesome to have this for use with CarPlay when driving

 

[FlyingDutch]

I am currently using my iMac to control playback of an instance of Spotify running on an iPad in the other room, which is in turn AirPlaying to my Apple TV and the great speakers it's hooked up to. I can pass playback to my iPhone, which has several thousand songs cached for offline use -- or indeed any of the Apple devices I own.

Relevant enough for you?

Just use Apple Music