Hello Everyone, The result of the following steps will allow you to immediately play any playlist, Apple Music station, or the result of any Apple Music query, directly from your iOS home screen and / or Apple Watch
I am assuming that you are already familiar with the basic UI of the iOS Shortcuts app in the latest version of iOS. Also, in order for this to work, as I describe, you must have an Apple Music subscription. Here we go: 1. Ask Siri to play some kind of music that you know you will want to hear in the future. For example, 1970s love songs, 1980s R&B Workout music, happy songs from the 1990s, top soft rock music from Rod Stuart, or KCBS news radio, etc. It doesn’t matter just as long as the result is what you want to hear. The reason for this is so that Apple music will place your inquiry into the recently played area of the Apple Music app. 2. Open the Shortcuts app. 3. Select Create Shortcut. 4. >From the Add Action menu, select Play Music and add it to your shortcut. This will be the only action in the shortcut. 5. Place Voice Over focus on the action and swipe up until you land on “Edit, Play Music”, then single-finger, double-tap in order to activate this option. 6. Select Home. This will take you to the Home area of your Apple Music App UI, which will launch inside the Shortcuts app. 7. In the Recently Played area, you will see your latest inquiry. Select it. Doing this will close the Apple Music UI and return you to the Shortcuts app. This may take a few seconds so give it time. 8. If you place VO focus on the single action of the shortcut, you will now hear VO announce the action with the name of the query you selected in the above step such as, “Play, 1980s music for working out.” Essentially, the shortcut is complete. The next steps simply allow you to rename the shortcut and save it to your home screen and/or Apple Watch. Understand that there are several ways to accomplish this but I’m only going to list what I think is the least confusing for novice shortcut creators. 9. Select Done. This will close the shortcut and place you back in a list of all of the shortcuts currently installed on your device. Assuming that you followed the steps above, your new shortcut defaults to the name, “Play Music,” followed by the number of actions in the shortcut. 10. With VO focused on your new Shortcut in the Shortcuts list area, single-finger swipe up until you hear, “Edit Shortcut,” and select the option. This will place you back in the Shortcuts editor with the shortcut, in question, opened. 11. Single-finger swipe until VO focus lands on the Done button. Do not activate this button. 12. Swipe to the left until VO lands on, “Play Music, Actions Menu, Button.” 13. Activate this button. A menu will open with several useful options including, Share, Rename, Choose Icon, Duplicate, Move, Add to Home Screen, and Export File. 14. I suggest that you first choose to rename the shortcut to the name of the station, playlist, etc., that describes the music the shortcut will play. Once this has been done, then select the option to add the Shortcut to the Home screen and then you will be good to go. Now, whenever you want to listen to the station designated in the shortcut, simply activate it from your IOS home screen and it will immediately begin to play without launching the Apple Music app. Mark -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/19b2bd09-9cf8-49d1-a011-3bf4b8642d3fn%40googlegroups.com.
