Siri Archives

Apple Music Classical is now on CarPlay

13/11/2024

Apple Music Classical is now on CarPlay giving users access to their library, playlists, and other recommendations from the Apple Music Classical app directly in CarPlay. Search is also now Siri enabled allowing you to search for composers, artists, works, and instruments within Apple Music Classical, across a variety of languages. In the past year, Apple Music Classical has added 50,000 album booklets to its classical music app, seen its expansion into Asia and the launch of […]

Apple Music Voice Plan to be axed

11/11/2023

Apple Music Voice Plan is to be axed with the close down starting in November 2023 when Apple will be turning off auto-renew for existing Voice subscribers. If you’re a current Voice subscriber, you can continue on your plan for the duration of your final billing cycle. Or you can switch to another Apple Music plan: Individual, Student, or Family, as well as Apple One – which includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, and more. Current […]

Apple introduces the Apple Music Voice Plan

14/12/2021

Update 14/12/2021 – Apple’s iOS 15.2 release today contained the Apple Music Voice Plan plus a number of other privacy and security updates. The full release notes can be accessed here. Apple introduces the Apple Music Voice Plan, a new subscription tier for Apple Music designed around the power of Siri. The Apple Music Voice Plan offers subscribers access to Apple Music’s catalogue of 90 million songs; tens of thousands of playlists, including hundreds of brand new mood […]

Pandora enables voice control on Apple HomePod

18/10/2020

Pandora enables voice control on Apple HomePod and the new Apple HomePod mini using Siri on Pandora’s iOS app. With Pandora on HomePod, users will be able to play their favourite Pandora content and control their listening experience hands-free by using simple Siri voice commands, such as: “Hey Siri, play some relaxing music on Pandora.” “Hey Siri, play the Sway’s Interviews podcast on Pandora.” Pandora will be available on Apple HomePod soon. Once available, users […]

Spotify Everywhere - new smart integrations released

6 new ways to stream Spotify on a smart device

13/10/2019

6 new ways to stream Spotify on a smart device have been published in a new blog by the streamer as part of its Ubiquity strategy. The idea is that you should be able to tune in to Spotify wherever, whenever, using whatever. With the ever increasing use of smart devices such as smart watches and smart speakers, the aim is to provide access to all of your favourite audio content on all of these […]

Apple iOS 11.4 supports new HomePod music control

Apple delivers stereo and multi-room audio with iOS 11.4

01/06/2018

Apple’s latest iOS upgrade brings stereo pairs and multi-room audio to its HomePod wireless speaker. Using AirPlay 2, music can be played in any room, moved from one room to another or the same song can be played everywhere using any iOS device, HomePod, Apple TV or by asking Siri. HomePod stereo pairs With two HomePod speakers set up as a stereo pair each HomePod automatically adjusts the audio for optimum sound quality using a […]