audioOS 17.4
With HomePod Software 17.4, Siri is able to learn what a user’s preferred media service is, eliminating the need to set a third-party app as the default or include an app name when asking Siri to play content.
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Apple has removed the Home app option that let users select a default media service as a result of the new feature addition. The change brings the HomePod in line with the iPhone and the iPad, which already offer the option to provide a default music service selection to Siri when making a song request for the first time.
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So does this mean now you have to say something arcane like "Hey Siri, set my preferred audio streaming service to Spotify" instead of just selecting Spotify from a list in the Home app? If so, that seems completely idiotic. Siri is already buggy enough as it is.
@Ben Not sure, but I think it just asks you. So this is easier the first time but then hard to discover how to change it.
@Someone If you’re not using Siri then I guess you are AirPlaying so it doesn’t matter what the HomePod is set to. Or is there another way to play music on a HomePod?
Is this just relating to music? I’d love my HomePods to be able to play from Overcast. I find Overcast and airplay a little unreliable sometimes.
This is hardly an Apple-specific trend, but I find it puzzling that we're now preferring an interface that's only ~80% reliable, and about 0% discoverable, over a touch GUI that's much better in both respects.
(Then again, I also find "oh, sometimes the Home app is also a Settings app of sorts for the devices around you" less than ideal.)
