On your iPhone or iPad, you can easily identify any music playing around you by saying “Hey Siri,” then ask what the song is. After you identify a song, Siri will also give you an option to listen to entire song on Apple music. But, there is a small problem, Siri only suggests a link to Apple Music so if you use any other music service say ‘Spotify’, you would have to manually open the ‘Spotify’ app and search the song. As always, there is a workaround.

With the AssistantLove tweak, from the development team at Delta, you can add at least some third-party integration by allowing Siri to play music from Spotify on older iOS versions. Our guide below showcases it on iOS 8 but it may work on other iOS versions too, though, it may not work on iOS 11 or 12. ‎With Spotify, you can play millions of songs for free. Listen to the songs you love and enjoy music from all over the world.Search for your favourite song, artist, or album.Discover a world of new music, videos, and podcasts.Enjoy playlists made just for you.Make and share your own play.

While, you can’t change your default music app on the iPhone, yet, we can still make use of Siri Shortcuts to our advantage. Let’s see how.

Use Shazam to Play Spotify

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Made by Reddit user u/zeeshan_02, this Siri shortcut uses the Shazam API to discover a song and then lets you open the song in the Spotify app. Go ahead and install the shortcut from routinehub.co.

You would get a warning that the shortcut is untrusted, you can ignore the warning and tap “Add Untrusted Shortcut”.

Free Spotify App

It would ask you to set up the shortcut the first time so that it runs smoothly afterward. Tap Continue to proceed. Select the music app of your choice, I use Spotify so I chose that. Tap Done to finish the setup.

Now you have the shortcut installed and ready to go, simply open the Shortcuts app and tap the “Shazam++” icon from the list and point your iPhone towards the music. You can also ask Siri to run this shortcut for you, by simply saying “Hey Siri Shazam Plus Plus”. Once it detects the music, it would show you a list of actions that you can take, tap Open Link.

Select Spotify and viola the music you just discovered with Shazam is playing in the Spotify app. You can save it to your playlist or add it to your personal album.

Final Words

This was a quick way to discover and add songs discovered by Shazam to Spotify. I agree it’s not a seamless method but it is still miles better than the traditional way. If you have any doubts or queries related to this method, let me know in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter.

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Also Read: How to Transfer Playlist from Spotify to Apple Music? (or any other Music Service)