- Apple Music subscribers will be able to stream from within Messenger
- Non-subscribers will be allowed to listen to 30-second clips of the songs
- To access the new feature, which is available globally, click the ‘+’ sign in the app
- To use the bot alone, search for ‘Apple Music’ from Messenger home screen
Apple Music has officially launched inside Facebook Messenger meaning users can stream and share songs while chatting to friends.
Apple Music subscribers will be able to stream full songs from within Messenger.
Non-subscribers will be allowed to share and listen to 30-second clips.
To access the new feature, which has been rolled out globally, click the ‘+’ sign in a one-on-one of group chat in the Messenger app.
Apple Music subscribers will be able to stream from within Messenger and non-subscribers will be allowed to listen to 30-second clips. To access the new feature, which has been rolled out globally, click the ‘+’ sign in a one-on-one of group chat in Messenger on mobile
By tapping the ‘+’ sign, users will be able to add the Music chat extension to those conversations.
To use the bot alone on desktop and mobile, search for ‘Apple Music’ from the Messenger home screen on the app and desktop and talk to it to find new songs.
You can also message the chat’s bot chat extension. If you send an emoji it will suggest you a playlist, writes Engadget.
Users can also sign up to Apple Music directly via Messenger.
Before this, users could only build Spotify playlists together in Messenger and Facebook’s AI assistant M.
‘Launching globally today, Apple Music and its chat extension will start to be available to the 1.3B people who use Messenger’, developers wrote on a Messenger blog.
Apple Music is officially launching inside Facebook Messenger meaning users can stream full songs while chatting to friends (stock image)
‘Apple Music is joining more than 200,000 active bots from over 100,000 developers on the platform who have crafted incredible experiences ranging from enabling commerce to catching up on the latest news and even discovering and listening to your favourite tunes, without ever leaving Messenger.’
The update has been rolled out globally, and considering Facebook released version 137.0 of the Messenger iOS app yesterday.
Facebook first announced plans for Spotify and Apple Music to integrate in Messenger in April of this year.