How to use Siri Shortcuts with Spotify

If you haven't used Siri to control music seamlessly, hands-free on your iPhone or iPad, you might want to start doing this. Not only is it more convenient to play daily music, but it is also safer when you're busy, such as when driving.

Unfortunately, Siri doesn't officially support third-party music streaming services like Spotify. However, with a bit of know-how and a few minutes of setup, you can make it work. So if you prefer to use Spotify than Apple Music to play music, you can still take advantage of Siri!

Following is the step by step guide of TipsMake.com to set up Siri with Spotify. Eventually, you'll be able to control your music playback, using nothing but voice.

How to use Siri with Spotify

While setting up Siri Shortcuts to use with Spotify may sound like a tiring task, in fact, this is a very simple process, if all the steps mentioned below are done correctly. In addition, please note that a Spotify Premium account is a prerequisite for this method to work properly.

Install Shortcuts

First, you'll need the Shortcuts app, in short, that's how Apple allows users to customize what Siri can do.

1. On your iPhone or iPad, launch the App Store .

2. Search for Shortcuts.

3. Shortcuts application will display in the first result. Please proceed to download.

Download the Spotify Shortcut installer

Once the Shortcuts app is installed and ready to go, you'll need to download the Spotify Shortcut installer on Safari or the browser of your choice.

1. Open the browser.

2. Open this link to find the Spotify Shortcut setup file, which will allow you to start connecting Spotify and Siri.

3. When the page loads, press Get Shortcut and select Open.

Now, this is a time when the process becomes a bit more complicated.

You will be redirected to the Shortcuts application, as seen below. Click Get Shortcut again. In a few seconds, you should see quite a lot of text and scripts appear on the screen. However, the important part is the Play button below the 'Spotify Shortcut setup' text located in the middle of the top of the screen. Click the Play button .

1. You will see a message asking if you want to run the shortcut. Click Run Shortcut .

2. You will then see a piece of text, instructing you to copy and paste the token afterwards. Click OK.

Now, you will see a few options for setting specific shortcuts with different functions.

1. For the purpose of this tutorial, select Play Spotify at the top. This shortcut has special functions, similar to telling Siri 'Play Music' . It will open Spotify and automatically play a song from your library. (Unfortunately, if you have a standard Spotify subscription, this function will only open the Spotify app and do nothing else.)

2. After selecting Play Spotify , you will be redirected to the Spotify login site. Log in and authorize the shortcut to work with the account. Click Agree.

After doing this, you will be redirected to a tokenized page as mentioned above. Copy all the text under 'Spotify authorization code' . This is important! Be sure to perform carefully and exactly with what you choose. Copy code only, no spaces. If not, you will have to start from the beginning until now to paste the code.

Now, after doing that, click Done.

1. You will now be greeted with the message 'All Set' . Click on OK.

2. And then the message 'Get Shortcut' . Click the green Get Shortcut button.

3. Remember the token you mentioned earlier? This is the time to use it. To complete the setup, simply paste the code you copied into the Enter text box .

Finally, the shortcut is complete and ready to go! But things have not ended here.

Record your voice command

Now, you need to let Siri realize when the shortcut has just been installed. To do this, you need to set up a voice command.

1. Open the Play Spotify shortcut box.

2. Touch the settings icon at the top right of the screen. You should now see the Settings menu .

3. Click Add to Siri .

Inside the Add to Siri menu, you'll be prompted to record a voice command, so whenever Siri hears any phrase you record, the virtual assistant will run the Play Spotify shortcut and play music. You can choose to say whatever you want. As you can see below, the example selected 'Bagel'. So whenever saying 'Bagel', Siri will launch Spotify and play a song. Great!

All operations are finally completed.

Remember that there are many shortcuts with different functions, like skipping tracks, to install. You can use the same installer already in Shortcuts to get those shortcuts. Just open the Spotify Shortcuts setting box, press the play button and select the desired option.

Once set, go to Settings to record the voice command and everything is done! Finally, you can control everything in Spotify with just your voice, as long as you have an active Internet connection and subscribe to Spotify Premium.

Now that you've fully grasped the basics of using Siri Shortcuts with Spotify, take a look at the 10 best Siri shortcuts for iOS users to get the most out of Siri on iPhones and iPads.

Hope you are succesful.