Apple offers users another good reason to try out their latest public beta.
With hawk eyes Redditors using the public beta iOS 14.5 noticed that when you ask Siri to play music, the wizard will ask the user to select which music app they want to use to play the song or artist. Normally, Siri only happens by default in the Apple Music app when no app is specified. But, as Gizmodo has confirmed, asking Siri to, for example, “play Phoebe Bridgers” in iOS 14.5 will bring up a menu with options for Apple Music, Spotify, Podcasts, and, for some reason, Books.
Reddit user matejamm1, who shared a screenshot of the feature and had other music apps installed, also saw them on that screen.
If Spotify is selected in this menu, Siri appears by default in this app the next time you are asked to play music, but the feature is quite wrong. When I tried the option to set my default music app as Spotify on iOS 14.5, Siri sometimes defaulted to Spotify, sometimes I opened Apple Music, and sometimes the same menu appeared to select which app I wanted to play the song from. or music. . However, colleagues who don’t run the public beta didn’t have that option when asking Siri to play music, so that’s one thing.
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It’s just one more reason to explore the latest public version of Apple, especially for those of us who aren’t particularly interested in Apple’s own services. Lately, the company has been slowly declining forcing us to use them. Last year, iOS 14 introduced the ability to change your preference mail and browser applications to non-Apple services, such as Chrome and Gmail. The ability to change other default options would be welcome.
Another highlight of the public beta of iOS 14.5 is the ability to use an Apple Watch to do so unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask. Sure, it can save you just a few seconds of manually punching your password, but listen, the process of unlocking your phone while wearing a mask is a little less annoying. I’ve been testing it for the last few days and found it to work well.
By 2021, we are already saving time and transmitting better. A tiny win, but I’ll take it.