While Apple Music will be available on the new Apple TV early next week, the ability to use Siri to search Apple Music won’t be available until early next year, according to Buzzfeed News. The new set-top box already incorporates Siri voice search commands for finding video content — even across multiple platforms — but it appears that this won’t be enabled for Apple Music out of the box. Considering that Siri can already be used with Apple Music on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, this seems like an odd omission and suggests that Apple’s resources have been stretched thin in getting the new Apple TV ready for release.
BBC also announced that its iPlayer app will be coming to the Apple TV “in the coming months,” suggesting that it will also see an early 2016 release.
Siri for Apple Music, BBC iPlayer coming to Apple TV next year
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