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Can someone please explain to me how Spotify has better device handoff than Apple Music? What I'm listening to on one Apple device should show on my other Apple device. People have been complaining about this for almost a DECADE. I'm absolutely switching to Spotify if this isn't fixed in iOS 17.
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MacBook Pro 16″
Bumping this as I still run into the desire for this functionality on a daily basis. I do all of my work on Mac / iPhone and I use AirPods Pro / Max to listen to music between devices. I can't explain enough how simple the functionality is for one Apple device to recognize the activity of another. This works for countless other Handoff apps. Music is arguably one of the most logical to include this, but it doesn't.
When I talk to people about why I love using Apple music, I have to deliberately avoid the topic of multi-device streaming as this is a pain point and a leg up for Spotify.
I pay for Apple because of the seamless, integrated ecosystem. This is a big gap and will prevent Apple Music from becoming #1 for streaming so long as the function doesn't exist.
Everything is enabled on mine but I'm not able to do it, I only have a MacBook and iPhone. I think the link for this all to work properly is the HomePods. Can you still do it if your HomePods are disconnected/turned off?
I agree this should be an out-of-the-box solution for Apple and I cannot understand why this has not been implemented. The advantages of using Apple devices and being part of an eco system that you should therefore be able to seamlessly continue to stream your music from any Apple device.
Come on Apple how difficult can this be?
Wow. Still no solution to this?
Being asked to upgrade I want to stop listening on my computer and start listening on my phone? It's the same account! Come on Apple you are so good at having one ecosystem, how can Spotify have had this feature for absolute ages, and you aren't able to do it?
Makes me feel like going back to Spotify. Their shuffle play is horrible, but at least I can continue to listen to music or podcasts from one device to the other.
When Apple announced Handoff, I was excited. Finally someone figured out how people want to use their phones and computers!
Since that years have passed and currently only handoff what seeming to be working is Safari and Notes, that's really impressive, how easy is to open on the phone and have it on my Mac (btw, vice versa would be also useful!)
Also the copy from iPhone and paste on Mac is lifesaver.
But where are the rest of Apple apps?
Why I can't do same with messages?
or Music???? And with music it's even more important to have two-way.
If you haven't figured out yourself, let me paint you simple scenario:
I plug my AirPods, push play on my playlist, move to another room, start using my computer and since all my work calls will be using Mac (Teams) now, I will play the same playlist from Mac from now on,
for a while I will walk away, and will play music on iPhone
Currently, as I am lazy, I will get different songs playing different places. It's annoying.
If you claim that people should by your devices because they are "best ecosystem" - I can have that experience with any android/windows system today.
Come on now Apple, please 🙏
You would literally rule the world 100% if you did this.
I have to airplay from my iPhone to my macbook and apple tv to get audio coming out of all the speakers in my house.
But if I start playing from my macbook, then want to switch to whole house playing, I can't shift the queue to my iphone to do that, and I can't airplay to apple tv and output from the mac natively :( have to airplay to mac and tv from an iphone which is odd ! 😂
His method definitely doesn't work, your own laptop won't appear as a 'tickbox' airplay device when opening the apple music app airplay section, only other devices appear for the tickbox functionality.
And this isn't handing off it's just airplaying to other devices
In my case I have a Mac, iPhone, and paired HomePods and for me it works perfect as I never even attempt to transfer music from iPhone to Mac when the HomePods are not in the mix. The HomePods are the center of my Music experience at home. I understand that those not using HomePods are not able to start Music on a Mac and pick it up on the iPhone.
To be clear, if you are using HomePods, you can transfer music across all devices and have complete control over any song and you will see those changes reflected on the other devices as well. For those that don't have HomePods, it is correct that you cannot transfer from Mac to iPhone, so send in the feedback. Nobody here can make that happen and simply complaining will not do it either.
I'm very curious why it doesn't exist when it's a functionality I need on a daily basis as well, most notably:
Is it because of a technical challenge between the Handoff API and Apple Music? Or was it simply overseen up until now?
Thanks for the reply. I checked the list of settings you provided and mine are the same as yours but no luck. Hope they fix this soon.
you can't do this even with a homepod, which only enables handoff to/from iphone (and i'm assuming ipad). macbook can't interact with either unfortunately
No.
They really should implement this.
But can this happen between iPhone and Mac. When I go to Airplay in Music on Mac, iPhone doesn't show.
Yes, this is exactly the answer. Thank you!!!!!!
iPhones are not on that list. Why? I want to jump from my Mac to my iPhone, seamlessly LIKE SPOTIFY HAS BEEN DOING FOR YEARS!
T&C’s. Apple do better. Handoff between devices is easy. One works with the other. Help us play music among our 🍎 devices seamlessly.
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