Siri play requests not working with Spotify

[Elbeedabarge]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iPhone 16 plus

Operating System

iOS 18.6

My Question or Issue

When I want to search for a song or prompt Siri with a specific command (“hey siri, play Michael Jackson”) she repeatedly says some version of “there was a problem, try again.” I have rebooted my vehicle console, restarted Spotify, uninstalled and reinstalled Spotify, turned my phone off and on, checked to make sure I have the latest software on both the app and my device…just about everything short of a factory reset which I don’t want to do. Nothing has worked, still no luck with CarPlay commands. However it be worth noting if I only say “hey Siri, open Spotify” that works. It’s just having issues with music search.

[Elbeedabarge]

Hey folks, 

Some of you mentioned in this thread that changing the wording from “hey Siri, play song/artist” to “hey Siri, play song/artist on Spotify” does the trick. Those who haven't tried this yet, would you mind checking if it works for you as well? 

We'll be on the lookout for your replies.

[Elbeedabarge]

Hey folks, 

Thanks for the reports. 

If this hasn't been fixed for you yet, we'd suggest reaching out directly to Apple for further info on any changes from their end that might be causing this issue.

The Community will be here if anything else comes up.

[Deuce562]

Im currently going through this issue as well, have you had any luck with a solution??

[MJMC97]

Hi hello, mine has also done this same IOS and Spotify. I’ll ask it to play music and it will say error, uh-oh there’s an error, please try again later 

[yxee]

Yeah we've had the exact same issue for a few months. It just stopped working and is very annoying. We realised the "on Spotify" fix but it's extremely annoying to say it for every single song.