Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. I have a video out from a long
time ago that showed users and people who owned a Google Home how to play
iTunes or Apple Music with their Google Home. Today I'm going to show you how
the Google Assistant can go ahead and play Apple Music.
The reason I'm making this video is I'd actually been getting a lot of comments
on the channel that people couldn't make this work, so I wanted to go out, test it
out again and make sure it works, and refresh a little bit with the new interfaces. So
here you go. Let's get your Google Assistant working with your Apple Music.
Let's start out with some of the commands coming right from the Google
support page for Google Assistant. You can play songs, artists, albums, or genre or
a mood, or you can just ask for personalized suggestions. Just ask it to
play some music. You can pause or stop, resume, next, previous, and you can ask
questions about what's playing if you don't know it. Of course you can change
the volume, you can increase and decrease or you can set a level or percentage
like we see with the Google Home product. Now this only works for iTunes or Apple
Music on an iPhone or an iPad, so I'm going to show you how to set that up.
On your iPhone the one thing you will need for Apple Music, is you will
need a subscription. So you've got to go into the settings on your phone, you
actually have to go into the iTunes and App Store section, and then you have to
tap on your Apple ID up at the top. Obviously I've blanked mine out for good
reason here, but once you go into that, you're going to see a section for
subscriptions down below. Tap on that and make sure that it says Apple Music and
at least it shows you an individual music membership. You could have a family
membership, you could have the student, all of those will work too, but you
do have to have this. If you don't this will not work. So now moving over to the
Google Assistant application here, and I'm just going to tap up top right on
the little compass icon, and then I'm going to tap on the three dots up at the
top and go to settings. I'm going to scroll down, you can see my device, my iPhone, but
I'm going to tap on music at this time. Once in there you can see the different
music services that are available. You could choose any one as the default, you
could choose no default if you wanted. So down at the bottom, you're going to see
Apple Music. Now I'm using an iOS 11.X device here that allows me to do
all of this, so I have an updated google Assistant application and my iPhone
device is iOS 11. Now skipping over to the Google Assistant itself, all I have
to do is tap on the little microphone icon at the bottom. I'm going to ask it
to play royalty-free music and you'll see the Google Assistant responds: "Sure". It's
asking Apple music. Now let me show you, I'm going to mute the mic on my
Google Home just so it doesn't trigger as I do this, but what's really funny
about this demo is I'm actually connecting to an Amazon Echo Plus. I
could do the same thing with the Google Home and then I would also have the
Google Home and its capability for controlling music if
you wanted. *Alexa says connecting to Brian's iPhone*
"Play royalty-free music on Apple Music"
"Next song." "Volume down." So there you go, your Google Assistant is all connected
and you can use Bluetooth to connect to any Bluetooth speaker, let alone the Echo
Plus that I used in this video. You could obviously use the Google Home as well,
and from that point use it to control your Google Assistant and your Apple
Music. So you could actually pair using Bluetooth to your Google Home and then
use the same set of commands to control Apple Music through your Google Home
right there. So go ahead guys, try that out and leave any comments below if you're
having trouble. Obviously this is going to take an iPhone for it to work, you're
going to have to have a relatively updated iPhone as well. So there you have
it everyone. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.