How to Connect Apple Music to Google Home & Nest in 2023

Similar to Amazon Echo, Google Home is another popular and great smart speaker that lets you control your smart home with just your voice. To be specific, with Google Assistant, the voice and smarts inside the speaker, you can use voice commands to control more than 1,000 smart home devices to play music, stream movies, read news, and other entertainments all hands-free at home.

As listening to music with Google Home is one of the biggest requests for most people. Apple Music is popular nowadays, if you are an Apple Music user, you may wonder can I play Apple Music on Google Home? Don't worry, in this article, we will show you how to play Apple Music on Google Home in several ways.

Part 1. Does Apple Music Work with Google Home?

For a long time, Apple Music has been one of the much-requested music services for Google Home, and now it's here. As of December 2020, Google Home officially supports Apple Music too. If you're already paying for the Apple Music individual subscription, you can now connect it to Google Home easily and even set it as your default music service. And Apple Music will give you the best music experience on your device.

Whether you already have a Google Home or Nest speaker, or you're setting one up for the first time, here're some minimum requirements to connect Apple Music to your device.

Apple Music on Google Home - Minimum Requirements

1. Android or iOS mobile device

For starters, please check if the device is using the latest OS version. And the latest version of the Google Home app is one of the essentials to set your devices up. Just head to the App Store or Google Play to download or update the application.

2. Apple Music subscription

Your Apple ID is the account that you use to access all Apple services and make all of your devices work together seamlessly. To play music from Apple Music catalog, you need an existing Apple Music subscription with your Apple ID. Apple Music starts with a subscription for $10.99 per month.

If you are new to Apple Music, you can choose to sign up for Apple Music to be benefited from Apple Music's free trial for a month. Learn how to get an Apple Music time-limited free trial.

3. Access to a secure WiFi network

To avoid a SSL error when connecting the Apple Music to the Google Home or Nest speaker, a secure WiFi network is also an essential to ensure a successful connection. What's more, also make sure the selected network is accessible on both the phone and speaker.

Part 2. How to Connect Apple Music to Google Home

Since everything is ready, you can now connect Apple Music to Google Home with ease.

How to Link Apple Music to Google Home:

Step 1. From the home screen of the device, open the latest version of the Google Home app. If this is the first time you set up your Google Home in the app, follow any steps on the screen to finish the set-up process. If you're asked to select a WiFi from the available networks, please ensure to select the same one that your speaker is using.

Step 2. Once set up, tap Account at the top-right of the screen.

Step 3. The same Google Account you use to link to the speaker should be displayed at the top bar. If the account is not current yours, please switch accounts by selecting "another account" or "Add another account".

Step 4. Return to the home screen of the app and tap Add + at the top-left of the screen.

Step 5. Select Music and audio.

Step 6. Select Apple Music and tap Link Account to log in with the Apple ID that you use with your Apple Music subscription.

Now with your voice you can ask for any on-demand contents from Apple Music such as songs, albums, artists, playlists and more. To do this, just use voice commands: "OK Google, play Taylor Swift on Apple Music". If the music is not matched, you may need to set Apple Music as the default music service on your speaker.

Or in case if you prefer to play Apple Music on Google Home through Bluetooth paring, we also tell how to do this.

Step 1. Open the Google Home app, tap Devices.

Step 2. Find the device card for the Google Home you want to pair with Bluetooth.

Step 3. Tap the device card menu > Settings > Paired Bluetooth Devices > Enabled Pairing Mode.

Step 4. Turn to your mobile device to enable Bluetooth under Settings.

Step 5. Under available devices, find and select your Google Home or Nest to pair them.

How to set Apple Music as the default music service on Google Home:

Before you can use Apple Music with your Google Home or Nest speaker, you may link other streaming service like Spotify or Pandora and even set it as the default music service, so you can listen to your favorite music easily.

Now don't hesitate to switch to Apple Music and as it as the default one, so you don't have to say "on Apple Music" on the end of your voice commands. If you missed the timing to say "yes" when Google Home gave you the option to set Apple Music as the default music service, you can follow these steps to adjust it in the Google Home app.

Step 1. Open the Google Home app, and head to Account > Settings.

Step 2. Under services, find and select Music.

Step 3. Select Apple Music and set it as the default music service.

How to unlink Apple Music (or others) from Google Home:

As you may know that the Google Home app allows you to link up to 6 music services, you may have linked some of your music services to the speaker and want to unlink them now, especially if you stop paying for them.

Step 1. Open the Google Home app, and head to Account > Settings > Music.

Step 2. Select Apple Music or others and tap UNLINK.

Part 3. How to Play Apple Music on Demand on Google Home

Here're some basic voice commands to either ask on-demand music from Apple Music streaming catalog or control over Apple Music playback. Right after you say "Hey Google" or press the button to talk to Assistant, say a command.

How to ask on-demand contents from Apple Music:

Songs: "Play [song name]." "Play [song name] by [artist name]." "Play [song name] on Apple Music."

Artists: "Play [artist name]." "Play [artist name] on Apple Music."

Albums: "Play [album name]." "Play [album name] on Apple Music."

Genre or mood: "Play classical music." "Play music for cooking." "Play happy music on Apple Music."

Personalized suggestions: "Play some music."

How to control over Apple Music with voice commands:

Pause or stop: "Pause." "Pause the music." "Stop the music."

Resume: "Resume." "Continue playing."

Next: "Next." "Skip." "Next song."

Previous: "Previous." "Play previous."

Find info: "What's playing?"

Part 4. How to Play Apple Music Files on Google Home

With the guides above, you can easily stream Apple Music on Google Home. But they still have some drawbacks. The first way is only available when the device is in the network. And connect Apple Music and Google Home with Bluetooth does not work with voice commands. To solve these problems, we are going to introduce an alternative way that 100% works for you with which you can easily stream Apple Music to Google Home using voice without limits

Generally speaking, Apple uses DRM encryption technology, also known as FairPlay to encode the tracks on Apple Music. Therefore, you can only play those protected streams on authorized devices that don't include Google Home. To make Apple Music playable straightforward on Google Home, the key point is to delete the DRM copyright protection from Apple Music songs firstly and then upload the tracks to Google Play Music account so that you can control Apple Music on Google Home merely with voices.

Luckily, there are many tools developed to unlock the DRM from Apple Music. One of the most professional Apple Music converters is known as ViWizard Audio Converter which can completely remove the DRM restriction from Apple Music songs while converting the encoded Apple Music format to popular MP3 or others that can be fully synced to Google Home.

How to download on-demand Apple Music contents to MP3 (or others):

Now the following instruction will show you the complete progress to remove DRM and convert Apple Music M4P songs to unprotected MP3 using ViWizard Apple Music Converter.

Step 1Add Apple Music Songs to ViWizard

Launch ViWizard Apple Music Converter and click the second Add (+) button at the top center to load the Apple Music songs from the iTunes library folder from computer to ViWizard. You are also allowed to import the files by drag-and-drop.

Step 2Customize Output Settings

After all the songs are loaded completely to ViWizard, move to Format panel and click the MP3 format. Then in the popup window, you can choose the output format as MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, etc. as you like. You can also select the format settings including codec, channel, sample rate, bit rate according to your needs. Click the OK button to save the change.

Step 3Remove DRM and Convert Apple Music to MP3

Click Convert button to let ViWizard Apple Music Converter start converting the M4P songs to MP3 format at up to 5X faster speed. Once the conversion finished, you'll locate the well converted DRM-free Apple Music songs by clicking History icon.

How to stream DRM-free Apple Music to Google Home:

Now here's the simple guide on how to stream converted Apple Music songs to Google Home or Google Home mini for playback with voice commands.

Step 1Upload DRM-free Apple Music songs to Google Play Music

Log into your Google Play Music account and access to My Music section. Click on the Upload Music button in the top right. Then you can choose the converted Apple Music tracks without DRM and upload the files to your Google Play account. After it is done, you will have your music ready to go.

Note: You are required to subscribe Google Play Music premium account in order to play and control the music on Google Home.

Step 2Set Up Google Home Device

Plug in Google Home. Install the Google Home app by navigating to g.co/home/setup on your Google Home supported mobile device. Make sure to connect your device to the same Wi-Fi network that you intend to use to set up your Google Home device. Open the Google Home app by tapping the app icon on your device. Tap Get Started. Then choose the Google Play Music premium account that you want to link to Google Home. Tab OK.

Step 3Start playing Apple Music on Google Home

Now you can begin to ask Google Home play the Apple Music you just uploaded to Google Play account with voice commands, like "Play (song name)," Play (song name ) by (artist)," etc.

Wrap Up

Now you may know how to play Apple Music on Google Home. To play Apple Music on Google Home is not so hard nowadays. We have introduced three methods for you, you can choose the suitable one as your need. With ViWizard Audio Converter, you can listen to Apple Music on Google Home, Google Home mini, or other speakers without much effort.