How to play Apple Music from your Amazon Alexa devices

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AppleInsider walks you through how to enable Apple Music and play what you want from the service on your Amazon Alexa devices in a few easy steps.

After being recently announced, the Apple Music skill has finally shown up on Amazon Alexa. The original launch date was December 17th so today's release comes as a bit of a happy surprise.

Enabling Apple Music on your devices is quick and easy to do, all from within the Amazon Alexa app on your iPhone.

Adding Apple Music to Amazon Alexa

To start, launch the Amazon Alexa app on your iPhone, and navigate to the Skills & Games page.
Search for Apple Music. Tip: Since it is new, it may not show at the top. Sort by release date to bring it there.
Tap Enable to add the skill.
Sign into Apple Music. That's it!

You can now say phrases such as "Hey Alexa, play Queen on Apple Music" to listen.

Apple Music as the default music source

Once you've added the skill, you can set Apple Music to be the default music sources for your Alexa devices.

At the moment, it seems the rollout is a bit limited to certain devices. We expect availability to expand to additional devices in the coming days such as the OneLink Safe & Sound or the Ecobee 4.

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16 Comments

dewme

said about 5 years ago

Thank you for the early surprise. So far, it works like a charm. This is a great example of two companies cooperating in a way that helps their shared customers. A total win-win for customers.

payeco

said about 5 years ago

Thanks for the heads up that it’s out early. Been waiting for the since the Apple Music was first released.

I’d like to replace my Echos with HomePods but until they release a smaller, lower cost version for all the places I’m currently using Echo Dots I’m sticking with the Echo.

telepathy2000

said about 5 years ago

Not showing up here in Australia, although that was kind of expected.

davidness

said about 5 years ago

I have this working for individual artists, but how can I play a specific Apple Music PLAYLIST that I’ve already set up?

bfulroth

said about 5 years ago

After spending about 20 minutes trying to get my Amazon Alexa enabled Sonos speaker to work with Apple Music I realized that maybe it’s only Amazon products and not Sonos speakers that can use Apple Music.
I can enable the skill but Alexis says Apple Music is not enabled on this device. Can others verify this is true?