How to transmit and control Spotify in your Apple Homepod

Apple Homepod offers access to all the main transmission services and radio stations through AirPlay, and that includes Spotify.

Homepod Mini and Homepod, the original version and the second generation, can do everything that any other regular airplay speaker does. Then, if its favorite transmission application is in iOS and has an AirPlay option, then you can transmit your songs through your iPhone, iPad or Mac.

However, there are only a couple of services that have native support in Homepod without Airplay, and Spotify is not yet one of those, which means that it cannot configure it as its predetermined service.

However, that does not really matter, since after the arrival of iOS 17.4 in March 2024, it is also not possible to establish any compatible service as a default service in the same way.

Instead, experience is really better. Certainly in the case of Spotify anyway.

We have a separate feature on how to add a predetermined media application to Homepod, whether Deezer, YouTube Music or Spotify, but here we are focusing specifically on Spotify.

This is all that you need to know about Spotify’s transmission to your Apple Homepod, especially now it has improved a bit.

How to play Spotify in Homepod with Siri

With the arrival of iOS 17, it became a little easier to play or transmit Spotify in Homepod and Homepod Mini, and you could also do it through Siri.

You can use the traditional method that we detail a little more to make a song to your homepod speaker, or you can ask Siri in your homepod to repeat Spotify. The details directly are for when you want to use Apple’s smart wizard.

What you will need

• Your iPhone or iPad
• Your reference home

The short version

• Update your iPhone or iPad at least iOS 17.4 / iPados 17.4… You should really have done it for now.
• Make sure you Homepod is updated.
• Check your iPhone and Homepod are in the same Wi-Fi network.
• Light Recognize my voice.
• Allow Siri Access to Spotify.
• Di “Hey Siri, reproduce (insert a song/album here)”.
• Choose Spotify As its predetermined media application when asked.

There were, until iOS 17.4 arrived, a couple of warnings with the use of Siri. He had to make sure that his homepod and iPhone were in the same Wi-Fi network, their iPhone had to come on, I needed to have recognized that my voice turned on and needed to allow Siri to access Spotify the first time he asked Homepod to reproduce music through Spotify. And that was the other warning, Spotify must also say in his application.

If he marked all these boxes and completed the request for access, he was able to experience Spotify in Homepod as if it were a predetermined service (except for having to say Spotify).

With iOS 17.4, much of that is still applied, except the need to say Spotify within its application. In fact, the first time he asks Siri to play music in his homepod after the update, Spotify must not say deliberately in the application.

This will cause Siri to ask what media application you want to use as your favorite service, to which you should respond to Spotify if you want Siri to learn to play from Spotify for future applications.

However, unlike when Siri uses Apple Music or one of the applications compatible with a third party, when it is extracted from Spotify, it is by plane from its iPhone or iPad. Once you have chosen Spotify, as its preferred media application, you will not need to say Spotify in the initial command, but your command will be followed by Siri telling you that you are reproducing from your iPhone or iPad. You can change the artist, the album or the song using Siri, but between each change he will tell him again that he needs an plane from his iPhone.

How to play Spotify at Homepod using AirPlay

If you have problems asking Siri to play Spotify, you can always use the traditional AirPlay method so that Spotify plays through its homepod speaker.

What you will need

• Your iPhone, iPad or Mac
• Your Homepod
• The Spotify application

The short version

• Open the Spotify application On your iPhone or iPad
• Choose the song You want to start with things.
• Click on the Devices icon in the lower left corner.
• Move down to AirPlay or Bluetooth.
• Choose Your homepod speaker From the list.

How to make AirPlay the melodies to your homepod from Spotify using iPhone, iPad or Mac

It is worth mentioning that if you open the Spotify application and that your Homepod is near, a emerging window asking if you want AirPlay to Homepod can appear at the top of your screen. Touch to omit the steps below.

Since Airplay 2 arrived a few years ago, adding multiple rooms and stereo to Homepod, he has also been able to choose to play his Spotify songs through multiple speakers, or a duo configured as a pair. Simply use the method as described above, and verify the options for multiple homepods, or choose a pre -established stereo pair.

Spotify voice commands for Homepod

You can do most of the usual track controls you will get with Apple Music, even if you do not get all the benefits of that native Spotify.

Here are some examples of Spotify commands for Homepod:

• “Hello Siri, the volume uploads.”
• “Hi Siri, converts the volume into x%.”
• “Hello Siri, the volume descends.”
• “Hello Siri, pause this song.”
• “Hi Siri, the song resumes.”
• “Hi Siri, play the next song.”

You can also take advantage of Siri’s musical knowledge (well, Wikipedia) to obtain track information and artist. Try this to start …

• “Hi Siri, what is this song?”
• “Hi Siri, when did this song be released?”
• “Hi Siri, what album is this?”
• “Hi Siri, who plays the battery in this band?”
• “Hi Siri, tell me about this artist.”