Knowing that everyone has their preferences and way of living life, the desire to have full-on customisation should be accepted and allowed. While professionals such as our super techies are fine with neat iOS experience, many users especially the young ones like to go all out for customisation. Read – Tips & Tricks to Fix iTunes Error 3194 on iPhone Though we have always admired the deep integration between software and hardware that the Cupertino-based company provides, we have never failed to pinpoint the lack of enough freedom to customise interface or set default apps. It has been a while since we started dealing with Apple devices at Rapid Repair. Great Way Forward for Freedom-loving iOS Users Is that OK?” Hit ‘Yes’ in the popup menu to continue. Up next, the virtual assistant might ask for your permission to access your data saying, “I’ll need to access your Spotify data to this. If you have installed multiple music apps, Siri will show you a list of all the music apps and request you to select a desired app as the default option.

Next, ask Siri to play a song, album or artist.

Simply press the side/home/power button of your iPhone or iPad or use the “Hey Siri” command to invoke the personal assistant.

To get going, activate Siri on your iPhone.

Once you direct the virtual assistant to stream music using specific music streaming app, it becomes business as usual thereafter. Well, you have to invoke Siri and ask it to do it for you.

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Then, how does this all-new feature work? Notably, the latest iteration of iOS does not offer a switch to set any music app such as Spotify or YouTube Music as the preferred choice.

With that in mind, let’s get started:Īs interesting as it sounds, Apple has kept the ability to change default music app on iOS 14.5 a bit under the hood. Thus, if you are not running the latest iOS beta on your device, you will need to wait for this feature for a while. It is worth mentioning up front that the ability to choose your default music app on iPhone is currently available on iOS 14.5 developer/public beta and will soon be rolled out globally. Perhaps, the tech giant has started to realise how pivotal it is to offer enough freedom for a personalised experience. After allowing users to change their default email and browser app on iOS/iPadOS, Apple has now paved the way to change the default music app on iPhone and iPad.

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