If you're one of the many people who own an iPhone but don't use Apple Music, it looks like iOS 14.5 has a feature you'll find useful: the ability to switch to a different music player by default. This is a feature that was spotted by Reddit users in the iOS 14.5 beta, and more specifically, it will ask you which app you want to use the first time you ask Siri for a song and then whatever you select will be set accordingly. default way. ie, in the future, you can ask Siri to play a song without specifying the app. Users who didn't install Apple Music noted that it didn't even ask which app to use the first time they requested a track, just defaulted to the main music player they're using, be it Spotify or whatever.
A work in progress
It's a feature that's already available on HomePod, so it makes sense that it's available now for iPhone and iPad, but it should work for a lot of people. Having said that, at the moment, it seems a bit flawed. Some users have reported that it only works if you phrase your song request in a specific way, or sometimes it just comes down to Apple Music. But I hope it's fair because it's still in beta. Bugs are forgivable and expected there, we just hope it works well when iOS 14.5 is released. This isn't the only new feature coming with iOS 14.5, as we already know that support for Face ID skins and an app tracking transparency feature is also in the works, so it feels like an update. of the 14.x have been. As for when the iOS 14.5 update will arrive, we're not sure, but now that it's in beta, we don't expect the wait to be too long. Via PhoneArena