Apple TV’s Siri-enabled universal search feature is set to come to Apple Music early next year, Apple has confirmed.
The feature means that Apple TV users will be able to request to find songs, artists or albums in the way that they can currently find movies or TV shows.
Adding Siri voice search to Apple Music is a great selling point for both Apple’s streaming music service and Apple TV. For the former, it could help boost paid subscribers past the 6.5 million users currently signed up as paying customers. For the latter, it cements Apple’s set-top box as a general purpose entertainment hub for your living room.
Hopefully by the time the feature is added, Apple will have made improvements to its Siri service for Apple TV. As Our Glorious Leader Leander Kahney wrote in his Apple TV review, Siri’s hit-and-miss functionality is currently one of the few disappointing aspects of Apple’s TV refresh.
Source: Buzzfeed
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
