Nice information for the devoted few Apple Residence of us who use YouTube Music (I do know you’re on the market!) — now you can combine the service along with your HomePods and both ask Siri to play songs utilizing YouTube Music or set the service as your default supply. 9to5Google noticed a Reddit submit from YouTube Music product head Brandon Bilinski asserting the replace. You’ll find directions for establishing the combination on a help web page for the service.
The listing of third-party music providers you could combine with HomePods continues to be fairly lean. Till now, the largest options to Apple Music which have added that help had been in all probability Deezer and Pandora. You’ll be able to lastly ask Siri to play music with Spotify on HomePods, however the firm nonetheless doesn’t help connecting the app to Apple’s audio system.
To attach YouTube Music to your HomePods, you’ll have to both have a YouTube Music or YouTube Premium account. Open the app, faucet your person icon within the prime proper, then go to Settings > Linked Apps > Join with HomePod. Then, to set it as your default, open the Residence App in your iPhone or iPad, faucet the settings icon within the higher proper there, and go to Residence Settings > Your username (within the Folks part) > Default Service.
In case you don’t see the “Linked Apps” choice in YouTube Music, don’t fear — I didn’t both at first. After force-closing the app and re-opening it, nonetheless, it was there. You may additionally have to be sure you’ve bought the most recent model of the app.
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