iOS 14.5 Beta Lets You Change Your Default Music App

When Apple released iOS 14.5 beta concluding calendar week, it brought the power to use Apple Watch to unlock their iPhones. Among other changes, the Cupertino giant seems to have also added the flexibility to permit users prepare third-party music streaming services every bit default for Siri.

As first spotted by users on r/iOSBeta subreddit, iPhone users will no longer take to specify the app'south proper name while using Siri to play their favorite songs. Instead, Siri will prompt users to choose the default music streaming app. This is a welcome improver for those who rely on Siri to play music.

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In a similar change, some users have noted that Siri sets the app you specify in a vocalisation command as default when you use the voice assistant to play songs for the first time on iOS 14.five. For instance, if you say a command request Siri to play songs on Spotify, Siri will ready Spotify as your default service.

At this moment, the characteristic seems to be a bit inconsistent though. Few users report that Siri automatically reverts to Apple Music in some cases. However, we could expect Apple to fix that before iOS 14.five gets a stable release.

Apple tree'southward movement to expand Siri support to third-party services by default comes after the company allowed users to set default email and browser apps. In fact, you can now set Google Chrome as your default spider web browser on iPhones (or Firefox, if that's your browser of choice.)

On the Google side of things, Google Assistant at present lets you set Apple tree Music as your default music streaming service, although it is withal limited to the U.South., U.Yard., France, Germany, and Nippon.