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″
I have a Mac, iPhone, and HomePods and Handoff works on all devices. Playing Apple Music on iPhone shows the song on my Mac in Apple Music and I can switch songs there and I can hold the iPhone next to the HomePods and the song will continue to play on the HomePods. When HomePods are playing, I can switch songs with my Mac or iPhone and holding iPhone next to HomePods will transfer the music back to playing on iPhone. My setup is as follows:
Not sure if all are required, that is just how mine is set up. Maybe others can chime in with their observations. I am aware of past reports of Apple Music not working correctly between devices, but that has not been my experience.
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
To me the most frustrating is the lack of handoff between my phone and watch. When I start a playlist or podcast in the car on the way to run or workout and don’t want to carry my phone the whole time, I have to get far enough away so the Bluetooth disconnects and then go into podcasts or music and start over. Just incredible how all apple products and services used but they don’t handoff, yet as noted above Spotify has been doing this across devices and operating systems for years.
I thought I should try Apple music after many years with Spotify just to see if they do better. But to be honest, I'll just let this subscription run out and I'll definitely switch back to Spotify. This is one feature I can't do without.
I believe your list is accurate.
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.
But it works beautifully on my HomePod. I feel like they have it working but only want to give you the feature in a limited way.
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.
Still an issue.
+1 from me. How do we get more attention on issues like this?
Absolutely insane that this is an issue in 2024. Apple already has near-perfect hand-off between devices, what is going on with Music specifically?
Agreed. Apple should adress this soon. It is a big flaw for apple music
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