New Apple TV Gains Limited Siri Support for Apple Music on tvOS 9.1 BetaApple recently confirmed that Siri is coming to Apple Music on the new Apple TV at the
beginning of next year, but
iDownloadBlog has discovered the virtual assistant can now be used for certain music-related commands on the latest
tvOS 9.1 beta ahead of time.
Jeff Benjamin shared a video demo of Siri being used to search for songs, albums, artists and playlists on Apple Music from the Home screen on the new Apple TV, without needing to open the Apple Music app. Siri can also be used to play and pause Beats 1 radio.
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MacRumors was able to replicate this functionality on the new Apple TV running tvOS 9.1 beta in the United States, but Siri did not always handle requests properly. Siri was also unable to complete music-related commands on tvOS 9.0 in our testing.
Apple will likely continue testing limited Siri support for Apple Music before making the feature publicly available in 2016, so the functionality may be spotty or unavailable entirely for some users.
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