Listening to the radio on HomePod

Listening to music or podcasts on the HomePod is child's play thanks to Siri. Without having to touch your iPhone at all, just with your voice, you can choose your favorite list, your favorite artist or choose the podcast that you like the most hear. However, if you are a radio lover and you like to listen to music, news or sporting events from your HomePod, Siri cannot help you.

Or yes, because Thanks to Shortcuts and its integration with third-party applications, it is possible to give an order to Siri on your HomePod and play your favorite station live. You can also create as many shortcuts as you need, so you can listen to all the stations you want just by asking Siri. We explain how in this video, with all the information below.

Since the iPhone does not have a native radio application, we must download one from the App Store, and the most recommended for its integration with Shortcuts and its ease of use is MyTuner Radio (link) which is also free. Once downloaded, we will have access not only to the live broadcasts of all the radio stations, we can also create the shortcuts we want in a very simple way. We choose the station we want to listen to, we display the radio player and at the top we click on the Siri icon (the sphere with colors). We will then see the option "Add to Siri" and a red button at the bottom that will be used to record the voice command that we want to use to play this station for us. Once recorded, it asks us for confirmation and everything will be ready.

Thanks to the Synchronization of Shortcuts with iCloud, any shortcut that we create reaches all our devices, including the HomePod, so that even if we have created the shortcut on our iPhone, if we tell the HomePod exactly the phrase we have recorded, we will begin to hear our favorite radio station. We can repeat these steps to create as many shortcuts as we wantIt is only important that you create them with very intuitive phrases that you remember well, because you will have to say exactly what you have recorded for it to work. Who said the HomePod didn't have a radio?