How to play and control music using Siri
Complete guide to Siri controls for playing songs, artists, albums, genres, and enjoying your music
Siri can help you access your music more easily than ever. With Siri you can play tracks, albums, and entires genres without ever having to open your Music app. If you're in the car, Siri also makes for a safe way to keep your tunes going while keeping your hands on the wheel.
Follow through and we'll show you how.
- How to play a specific song with Siri
- How play a specific artist or album with Siri
- How to play a specific playlist with Siri
- How to play a specific genre with Siri
- How to shuffle music with Siri
- How to pause, play, and skip tracks with Siri
How to play a specific song with Siri
- Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
- Tell Siri to play a specific song title. For example: "Play Pumped up Kicks"
- Wait for Siri to start playing the song.
If you don't specify an artist and there is more than one song with the same title, Siri will ask you which one you meant.
How play a specific artist or album with Siri
- Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri
- Tell Siri to play the specific artist or album you want. For example, "Play music by Foster the People" or "Play the album Nothing but the Beat by David Guetta."
- Wait for Siri to start to playing the album or selected artist.
How to play a specific genre with Siri
- Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
- Tell Siri to play the specific genre of music you want to listen to. For example. "Play some dance music".
- Wait for Siri to start playing the genre you selected.
How to play a specific playlist with Siri
- Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
- Tell Siri the name of the playlist you want to play. For example, "Play my Road Trip playlist".
- Wait for Siri to start playing your playlist.
How to shuffle music with Siri
- Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
- Tell Siri what you want to play -- a playlist, album, or music by a certain artist -- and tell it that you want to shuffle. For example: Play music by Foster the People on shuffle.
- If you're already playing a certain genre, album, or artist you can just tell Siri you want to shuffle by saying: "Shuffle".
How to pause, play, stop, and skip tracks with Siri
- Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
- If you've got music already playing you can control the current track's playback by telling Siri what you want to do. For example: "Pause music" or "skip track".
- If you've stopped your music and would like to continue were you last left off you can tell Siri:"Resume playing."
How to get more help with Siri
If you still need help with setting up or using Siri with your iPhone music, or any other Siri feature, head on over to our Siri Forum and ask away!
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Good write up. I'm do much of this. I think Siri is reading tags as well so it's important that your tags are accurate and you know what's where. For example if you tag all your songs inaccurately you're. I have a large library of music and i tagged every song personally in my own way so I know where everything is.
Another thing. I've found "skip song" works more often then saying "skip this track" Not sure why. In normal language i'd say "skip this track." But sometimes it works for me but sometimes it doesn't. That said i don't do that that often anyways. but maybe it struggles with language that it may feel is borderline slang. who knows.
Siri is so stupid: If you tell her 'Do not play music', guess what'll happen? She plays music! So I don't really think Siri can understand a word after this... Your article is great though!
Very good article! Also, I like those that singlehead earpiece displayed with Iphone! I wonder where I could find some like that?
The main problem with music control is for German speakers to ask Siri for a song/album/artist with an English name... good luck with that... for me personally, number one on my wishlist: Siri should recognize your language, at least for music...