In this tutorial, we will tell you all about changing the default music service on your HomePod from Apple Music to something else such as YouTube Music, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, etc.
How to change the default music service on HomePod
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Spotify rolling out streaming support for the Apple Watch
Back in September, Spotify started testing the ability to stream content from the Apple Watch directly. It was a limited pool of testers, and there wasn't any word when the feature would arrive for the public. But the wait appears to be over for some.
Spotify now has an iOS 14 widget
With iOS 14, Apple welcomed a more robust widget experience for the mobile operating system. And now that the software is out there in the wild, more developers are adopting the feature support for their apps.
Make Spotify’s Now Playing interface more OLED-friendly with Blackout
The Spotify Music app is one of the best alternatives to Apple Music in terms of online music streaming for the iPhone or iPad, and while the application itself already sports a somewhat ‘dark’ aesthetic, there are certainly some areas where it could do with improvement for those who like using dark mode or who use an OLED display-equipped handset.
Blackout is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer atebitsy that brings improved dark mode and OLED display support to the Spotify Music app, and it does so by providing users with an always-blacked out Now Playing interface background, as depicted by the before and after screenshot examples above.
Annotation lets Spotify users add descriptions & custom cover art to music playlists
While it has always been possible to create music playlists in the Spotify Music app for iPhone and iPad, one thing that seemed to be missing was a way to customize those playlists in depth. Fortunately, those with a jailbreak are no longer bound to such asinine limitations.
Annotation is a newly released and free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer atebitsy that brings music playlist customization options to the Spotify Music app. Right out of the box, it will permit users to add detailed descriptions to their music playlists and even change the playlist’s cover artwork to their liking.
Microsoft’s new principles for choice, fairness, and innovation in the Microsoft Store is an obvious jab at Apple, too
Apple's App Store has seen plenty of criticism over the years, but the backlash from major companies has started ramping up as of late. And Microsoft's not shying away, either.
Spotify adds lyric search more than two years after Apple Music, brings weekly music charts
Spotify now lets you find your favorite tunes by lyrics, a handy feature that Apple Music picked up two years ago via the iOS 12 software update. The service gained weekly music charts, too.
Spotify, Epic Games, Tile, and others form a Coalition for App Fairness in an effort to fight back against Apple’s policies
It took a bit longer than previously expected, but Epic Games has found its coalition of like-minded companies to "fight back" against Apple.
Spori makes it easier to use Siri to dictate music playback in Spotify
If you’re jailbroken on iOS 13 and use Spotify as your primary music streaming app, then chances are you might find yourself wishing that Siri worked as smoothly with Spotify as it did with Apple Music. Fortunately, a free jailbreak tweak called Spori by iOS developer udevs can make that happen.
Siri can already play tracks via the Spotify Music app if you specifically articulate that you’d like to play that song in Spotify, but who wants to waste their time adding those extra words to each and every Siri command? I, for one, certainly don't.
Zefy makes Spotify behave more like a default media player on jailbroken iPhones
Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services available for the iOS & iPadOS platforms apart from Apple's own Apple Music streaming service. But if anything’s painfully obvious, it’s the fact that Apple nerfs the functionality of third-party apps and services that compete with its own by limiting what they can do on their platform; this effectively makes Apple’s own services look better by comparison, and intentionally so.
If you’re an avid Spotify user and you also have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad at your disposal, then you could probably benefit from the likes of a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed Zefy by iOS developer udevs. This tweak implements a few handy workarounds for iOS to make Spotify feel more like a native music player than just a third-party alternative to Apple’s.
Spotify says Apple’s new Apple One bundles ‘threatens our collective freedoms to listen, learn, create, and connect’ [Update: Apple responds]
Earlier today during the "Time Flies" event, Apple officially unveiled the rumored Apple One bundles. It's three different options, each of which bundles Apple's most popular services for various monthly prices.
Love lets you like or un-like a song without unlocking your iPhone
If you spend a lot of your time listening to music on your iPhone or iPad, then there’s a pretty good chance that you might take advantage of your Music app’s Like button to save a song you enjoy to your collection for later. Many apps support a Like button of some sort, but when your handset isn’t unlocked, getting to it can be somewhat of a chore.
That’s a problem that a newly released jailbreak tweak called Love by iOS developer MeBlackHat tries to fix, and it does that by allowing you to Like or un-Like music from almost anywhere in iOS with Activator or with a Control Center toggle – whichever you prefer.