You can connect your iPhone to any Amazon Echo and Alexa in a very simple way, when you do it you can, for example, listen to Apple Music on your speakers or stream the sound of movies, games or whatever you want on your Amazon Echo.
The truth is that the Amazon Echo are an excellent alternative to the HomePod, I have been using them for a little over a week and the truth is that I am surprised both by their sound quality and by the number of things that Alexa can do and how well it works. I have been able to integrate it with my iPhone.
However, there was something that I couldn't even do, connect my iPhone with the Amazon Echo to play my music on Apple Music or simply to use it as any Bluetooth speaker. Well, it's actually very easy to do.
How to connect the Amazon Echo to the iPhone
The beauty of the Amazon Echo and Alexa is that you can control everything with your voice and that makes everything much easier, right?
Well, to connect your Echo speaker to your iPhone follow these simple steps:
- Say the following to Alexa: "Alexa pair Bluetooth device." Alexa will tell you that it does not find any device, but at the same time it becomes visible in the settings of your iPhone. Go to the next step.
- On your iPhone, go to Settings/Bluetooth
- In the section "Other devices" You will see the name of your Echo, click on it and the connection will be made automatically.
And that's it, from the first time you pair them you can do it whenever you want in a very simple way, you just have to say: "Alexa, connect to my phone" or "Alexa, connect to the iPhone", to disconnect, it's the same , changing connect to disconnect.
Now that you have connected your iPhone to the Echo you can play Apple Music if you want, in the section below I will tell you what you can do to control it by voice.
How to use Apple Music on the Amazon Echo
As I told you at the beginning of the article, one of the things I miss in Alexa is its incompatibility with Apple Music, but since I know how to connect my iPhone to the speaker, this lack is much less painful.
Once you connect your iPhone to the Echo and play music, you can use certain commands to control playback with Alexa. In addition to the basic volume up and volume down commands you can tell it the following:
- Alexa, Next (to advance a song)
- Alexa, Previous (To go to the previous song)
- Alexa, start over (To return to the beginning of the song being played)
- Alexa, pause (To pause the song)
- Alexa continues (To play the song from where you left off.
Of course, Alexa won't respond to your requests if you ask her to start a playlist or find an artist or song on Apple Music, but you know what? That's why you have Siri, ask her and it will play whatever you want on your Amazon Echo. This is called making technology work in your favor, don't you think?