How to set Spotify as your default music app with the iOS 14.5 beta

Spotify is one of the largest music streaming apps around the community. You may listen almost any song without downloading them. So Apple took this huge opportunity of spotify and grant a wish for iPhone users. Now iPhone/iOS users can listen to their favorite music via Spotify as their default music app. The first iOS 14.5 beta brings this nice little surprise for Spotify users. How to make Spotify the iPhone default when using Siri ? Wanna see how it works? Here we go.

First, you must have this iOS 14.5 beta version. But fair warning! If you are interested in iOS jailbreak, then DO NOT UPGRADE. stay where ever you are. There’s no any sign of iOS 14.5 Jailbreak yet. So better to not to upgrade for the sake of a jailbreak for iOS 14.5. Then, if you are not interested in a jailbreak, but interested in latest iOS features, you may try it up. Anyhow, if you are an owner of a iOS 14.5, then we are good to go.

How to install iOS 14.5 beta and watchOS 7.4 beta

Now the interesting part. How to do this frankly? There’s no option in Settings > Music (or Settings > Spotify) to set it as the iOS default like we’ve seen with mail and browser apps. Apple might add a proper way for this as a toggle or something in near future updates of iOS 14.5.

How to make Spotify the iPhone default with iOS 14.5 beta

1. Take your copy of iOS 14.5 beta (public or dev) on your iPhone or iPad
2. Ask Siri to play an artist/song/album
3. Look for a new pop-up to choose which service you’d like to use
4. Tap Yes to allow Siri to access data to Spotify (or another app)
5. Your music should start playing
6. When working, future requests to play music via Siri should use Spotify or the service you picked. (Many future UX upgrades are needed for this actually. But this is working for now)

Spotify as default iOS music app

So that’s it. For those who like to have spotify or Spotify++, TaigOne has it and download TaigOne for spotify here and TweakMo also has it and download TweakMo for Spotify here.

Hope you find this useful. bye bye!!