The two phones will connect and start sharing – and there are lots of sharing options. Instead of sharing a song session through Messages, you just bring your iPhone close to your friend’s iPhone. That’s cool, but iOS 17 takes music sharing with SharePlay to a whole new level. Here are the options for SharePlay music and video and more (Image credit: Future / Philip Berne) Share it through Messages, and if it goes to another ‘blue bubble’ iPhone user with an iCloud account, you can start a music session. When you’re playing a song, choose to share that song by tapping the Share button. On today’s iPhone, if you’re not using the new iOS 17 public beta, you can still share a music session through the Messages app. Microsoft called this “squirting” a song, which may explain why the feature didn’t catch on. On the Microsoft Zune (of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 fame), if you had a music subscription to the Zune service, you could send a song to another Zune user to play for a limited number of playthroughs. ![]() There have been music-sharing options on digital players for years, but they’ve always been a bit complicated. It isn’t even a metaphor, the deeper meaning is right in front of you. Now, with SharePlay on iOS 17, I bring my iPhone close to another iPhone, and we connect. Apple has created a way for iPhones to embrace each other ![]() It’s the same way I send someone the address to a restaurant or a request for a Venmo. Sending a text message with a link isn’t fun. I think we don’t realize how fun and spontaneous and sweet music sharing can be, mostly because there hasn’t been a fun way to do it until now.
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