share music and listen to a song together
In iOS 15.1 is now finally SharePlay! But what can you actually do with it? How about listening to music together via FaceTime: SharePlay makes this a lot easier. We’ll show you exactly how to do that in this tip.
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SharePlay makes it easier to share music, movies and photos with your friends and family. With SharePlay you can, for example, watch a movie together or listen to music together while swinging. You don’t have to sit together in the same room for this, because you share the music via FaceTime. How do you turn it on? Read in the steps below.
Share a song and listen to music together with SharePlay:
- Start a FaceTime call with your friends;
- Open Apple Music and choose a song to play;
- Choose the option ‘SharePlay’ and the song will be played by you and your friends;
There are, however, a few caveats. Of course, you and anyone you want to share a song with must be running iOS 15.1. To start (and share) a song, everyone must also have an Apple Music subscription. It is not (yet) possible to share a song from Spotify or YouTube Music via SharePlay.
Download iOS 15.1
Haven’t updated your iPhone (or iPad) to the latest version yet? Then you cannot use SharePlay. But don’t worry, because the latest update is available for all recent iPhones.
Haven’t you put iOS 15 on your iPhone yet because you were afraid of bugs? Then iOS 15.1 (and iPadOS 15.1) is also a very good time to update. In addition to a few deferred features, this update contains a lot of bug fixes and stability improvements. You can read how to install the update below.
Read more: iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 with new features are now available for download
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