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February 19, 2025February 19, 2025

12 Spotify Shortcuts for iOS to Boost Music Streaming Efficiency

Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services in the world, and it’s no surprise that millions of users use it every day on their iPhones. While the app itself is user-friendly, many Spotify shortcuts for iOS can make your experience even smoother and more efficient.

In this article, we’ll share some of the most useful Spotify shortcuts for iOS made by the Chrunos team. If you have never used any Shortcuts, you can read this to get started with Siri Shortcuts.

Spotify to MP3 Shortcut

If you’re a fan of Spotify and want to download songs from Spotify as MP3 files, you can use a shortcut to automate the process. Here’s how:

Step 1: Get the Spotify to MP3 shortcut by clicking the button below.

Get Spotify to MP3 Shortcut

Step 2: Once you have the shortcut, open the Spotify app on your iPhone and select the track that you want to convert to MP3.

Step 3: Tap the “Share” button and select “Shortcuts” from the list of options.

Step 4: Select the “Spotify to MP3” shortcut and follow the on-screen instructions to convert Spotify tracks to MP3.

When the download is complete, it will ask you where to save the music file. You can pick a location to save it and then you can open the Files app to check the downloaded music. 

The music files are sourced from YouTube. You can also check out our premium shortcuts to download songs in higher quality. In case this shortcut fail to work, you can check our multi-source downloader shortcut to download music from Spotify.

Spotify Playlist Downloader

One of the most useful Spotify shortcuts is the Playlist Downloader. This shortcut allows you to download any playlist on Spotify as MP3 files. Then you can listen to your favorite songs offline or on any device that doesn’t have the Spotify app installed. Here’s how to use it:

Step 1: Download the “Spotify Playlist Downloader” shortcut. We only shared this shortcut on this page.

Get the Spotify Playlist Downloader Shortcut

Note: Due to Spotify API updates, this shortcut does not work with algorithmic and Spotify-owned editorial playlists.

Step 2: Open the Spotify app on your iPhone and go to the playlist you want to download.

Step 3: Open your Spotify playlist in Safari or other web browsers. Then copy the playlist URL from the address bar.

Step 4: Open the “Spotify Playlist Downloader” shortcut and tap to run it. Of course, you can also run it from the share sheet.

Step 5: Input the number of songs in the playlist. I will automate this step in the next version, so you don’t have to do it manually.

Since Spotify uses short links, this short no longer works from the Spotify mobile app share sheet. By default, it will save the downloaded music files to iCloud/Shortcuts/Music folder. You can open the Files app to check them.

Spotify Downloader HQ

The above Spotify Downloader shortcuts only download Spotify tracks in 128 kbps. If you want to download high quality music from Spotify (320kbps), you can get our Spotify Downloader HQ, which is among our premium shortcuts.

With our Premium plan, you will get advanced shortcuts like Tidal Downloader, FLAC Downloader, etc. Besides, you can request custom shortcuts and full support from the Chrunos team.

Spotify Podcast to MP3

If you need to download Spotify podcasts for other devices, try this Spotify Podcast to MP3 shortcut. When you find an episode on Spotify that you want to download, you can tap Share and select this shortcut. It will load all available episodes on the show and you can choose to download all of them at once.

Spotify Podcast to MP3

If the podcast is not available in the United States, you should edit the shortcut a bit. I have added comments in the shortcut to guide you. You just change the “market=US” parameter accordingly. If you want to learn more ways to download Spotify podcasts, you can check this post.

Play Certain Tracks on Spotify

You can ask Siri to play Spotify music on iPhone or iPad since iOS 13. This shortcut is mainly for older iPhone models. You can copy any URL to a Spotify track and paste it to this shortcut, then run it to start playing.

Play Spotify Album, Artist, or Playlist on Any Device

I recently updated this Play Spotify Shortcut. It allows you to play any Spotify album, artist, or playlist. If not specified, it will play your recently played tracks. You can also specify which device to play. Let me show you how to set it up.

Spotify has changed their API, you may refer to the video below to set it up. This should solve the error “No available device found”.

Step 1. Get this Play Spotify Shortcut.

Step 2. Open the shortcut in Edit mode. Scroll down to fill in a Spotify URL according to the comments in the shortcut. You can paste URL to a Spotify album, artist, or playlist. You can leave it blank if you want it to resume your playback.

Step 3. Go to Developer.Spotify.com to get your own client ID and client secret. Then paste the client ID and secret into the shortcut. This is needed recently when Spotify made my API in Development mode. If my application for Extended Quota Mode get approved, you will not need to do this step.

Step 4. Enter the Device ID of the device to play Spotify music. If you leave it blank, this shortcut will detect all available devices. If there is more than one device, it will ask you to choose one.

Apple Music Playlist to Spotify Shortcut

If you’re switching from Apple Music to Spotify, you might want to transfer your playlists to the new platform. Here’s how to do it with a shortcut:

Step 1: Get the “Apple Music Playlist to Spotify” shortcut.

Step 2: Open the Apple Music app on your iPhone and select the playlist that you want to transfer.

Step 3: Tap the “Share” button and select “Shortcuts” from the list of options.

Step 4: Select the “Apple Music Playlist to Spotify” shortcut and follow the on-screen instructions to transfer the playlist to your Spotify account.

Note that this shortcut requires you to have a valid Apple Music subscription. When you run it for the first time, you need to log in to Spotify and complete the authentication process.  Additionally, it may take some time to transfer Apple Music playlist to Spotify, especially if you have a large playlist.

Spotify Playlist to Apple Music Shortcut

If you’re switching from Spotify to Apple Music and want to transfer your playlists, you can use a shortcut to quickly do so. Here’s how:

Step 1: Download the “Spotify Playlist to Apple Music” shortcut.

Step 2: Open the Spotify app on your iPhone and go to the playlist you want to transfer to Apple Music.

Step 3: Tap the “Share” button and select “Copy Link” from the list of options.

Step 4: Open the “Spotify Playlist to Apple Music” shortcut and follow the on-screen instructions to transfer the playlist to Apple Music.

Note that this shortcut requires you to have Apple Music apps installed on your iPhone and a valid Apple Music subscription.

Change Spotify Playlist Cover Shortcut

If you’re a Spotify user, you know that changing the cover image of your playlist on iPhone can be a bit of a hassle. Fortunately, there’s a shortcut that can make the process much easier. Here’s how:

Step 1: Download the “Change Spotify Playlist Cover” shortcut.

Step 2: Run the shortcut and select an image that you want to use as the playlist cover. 

Step 3: It will display all the Spotify playlists that you have and then tab to select one that you want to change its cover. 

Step 4: You will get notified when it’s done and then you can open the Spotify app to see the changes.

This shortcut uses the same authentication process as the Apple Music Playlist to Spotify shortcut. If you have already used that one, then you don’t need to do it again. 

Note that this shortcut requires you to have a new image ready to use. Additionally, the image must be less than 256 KB in size.

Shazam to Spotify Playlist Shortcut

If you often use the Shazam app to discover new songs and want to add them to a Spotify playlist, you can use a shortcut to quickly do so. Here’s how:

Get Shazam to Spotify Playlist Shortcut

Step 1: Download the “Shazam to Spotify Playlist” shortcut by clicking the button above.

Step 2: Open the Shortcuts app and replace the Client ID and Client Secret with your own as in the video below. While creating the client ID, be sure to set the redirect URI as the same as the one in the shortcut.

Step 3: Run the shortcut while the music is playing.

Step 4: When the shortcut has identified the track, it will list your playlists. Then you select one to add the song. 

This shortcut also requires the Spotify Authentication process as mentioned. If you get all these shortcuts, you need to only do it once.  The Shazam action is within the shortcut, so you don’t need to install Shazam or Spotify app. 

Play Spotify on HomePod

As mentioned, you can ask Siri to play Spotify music on iOS device. After you do that a couple of times, such actions will be available in Shortcuts. For Instance, I ask Siri to play my Spotify playlist called We Are Young, and then the Play We Are Young action is available.

I added this action and then added a Hand off playback action to hand off playback from my iPad to HomePod. This way, I can ask Siri to play Spotify on HomePod.

Play Spotify on HomePod

Spotify to YouTube Playlist

Someone ask me how to transfer Spotify to YouTube playlist without logging in, so I created this shortcut. It uses Spotify API to get each track info and YouTube API to search videos on YouTube. Once done, it will create an unlisted YouTube watch list.

I included my YouTube API in the shortcut, but I may run out of quota, so I highly recommend you use your own API key. You can refer to this post to create a free YouTube API.

Conclusion

These Spotify shortcuts can make your experience with Spotify much more efficient and enjoyable. With them, you don’t need to install additional apps or purchase paid services. So give them a try and see how they can improve your music streaming experience!

We have a few other Spotify Shortcuts in the making. Soon, the Chrunos team will update this article with a few more Spotify Shortcuts for iPhone or iPad. You can also share your expectations and feedbacks. To explore more, you can check the full list of our shortcuts collection.

50 thoughts on “12 Spotify Shortcuts for iOS to Boost Music Streaming Efficiency”

  1. Cody Chrunos says:
    March 3, 2025 at 8:32 pm

    Patrick,
    Downloaded music saved in Files> iCloud > Shortcuts. However, it does not support Spotify created playlists or private playlists.

  2. Patrick says:
    February 24, 2025 at 10:31 pm

    Hello, I can’t get the Spotify Playlist to Mp3 downloader to work regretfully. I copy the link from the playlist in Spotify to a new DuckDuckGo or Safari tab. Run the shortcut, asks me how many songs, fill in the amount. It (probally) starts, but cannot find any of the saved songs (icloud, shortcuts). Is there something I’m doing wrong or am I missing a step. Could you please inform?

  3. CG says:
    January 31, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    Hey,
    Thanks for the great work.
    When i try to run “Play Spotify Album/playlist/..” shortcut i get the error: “INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI
    What might be the problem?

  4. Simon says:
    June 1, 2024 at 3:08 am

    The equalizer is deep down in spotify settings. A shortcut made for that to go to it directly, would be great.

  5. Aykut says:
    February 20, 2024 at 5:45 am

    Hey Cody
    Thank you very much, the play shortcut works almost perfectly for me! Unfortunately spotify only starts playing after opening the app. As soon as the app is opened after the shortcut has been activated, it starts playing. Any idea how to get it to play without having to pop the app in front?
    Thanks

  6. Haif says:
    January 22, 2024 at 10:05 pm

    Hey Cody
    Successfully installed and setup the shortcut with API authorisation.

    When I run the shortcut its starts to recognize the song but then I am hit with the following error right after the song is successfully recognized and the Apple Music notification appears in the Dynamic Island:

    Could not evaluate the key path.

    In”, no value was found for dictionary key ‘tracks’.

  7. Cody Chrunos says:
    December 4, 2023 at 1:51 pm

    Emmy,
    If you can choose the device, it means you have get the api correctly. It is probably because you don’t have Spotify premium. I have made another one that does not require Spotify premium, but it can only play on the current device.

  8. Emmy says:
    December 3, 2023 at 11:15 pm

    Ok I watched your video and updated my redirect url and got further. Now when I run the shortcut it allowed me to select my device from a menu but then nothing is happening afterwards. I ran Spotify before as well and it’s still not doing anything. I feel like I’m super close and missing one step.

  9. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 30, 2023 at 11:46 pm

    John,
    Delete the action Encode Renamed Item
    Change Save Encoded Media to Save Renamed Item.
    Then it should save all tracks in MP3.

  10. John says:
    October 26, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    OK I was really stupid – I had no Music folder within my shortcuts directory – I created one manually and now files are being saved. But from Spotify they are being created as m4a files (I am doing this on a Mac). I want mp3 files. How to fix?

  11. John says:
    October 26, 2023 at 2:36 pm

    There is no folder called Music within iCloud/Shortcuts? I must be doing something wrong.

  12. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 26, 2023 at 7:39 am

    John,
    I just tried and it worked as it should.
    By default, it saves downloaded music in iCloud/Shortcuts/Music/.
    You may find the Save Encoded Media action and change the location to save the music.

  13. John says:
    October 25, 2023 at 6:59 pm

    I can’t get the Spotify Playlist downloader to work – or, rather, it runs but no mp3 files are saved anywhere. To recap, I am copying the link to the playlist to a new Safari tab, running the shortcut, telling it how many songs there are, then letting it finish. What am I doing wrong?

  14. Howard says:
    October 19, 2023 at 7:40 am

    “Last played object” does not work. If I don’t give a specific url to a song/artist/playlist, the shortcut doesn’t play any music.

  15. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 14, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    Chester,
    Open the shortcut and scroll down to the comment saying Get device ID. Add a Quick Look action below the Get content of URL action.
    Run it to see the quick look result. If it is {“devices”:[]}, you only need to play Spotify music on any of your device and then run this shortcut, it should work.
    If it says errors, send me the error on Telegram https://t.me/+fd82OOpm6zNjNDhl

  16. chester says:
    October 14, 2023 at 11:20 am

    i have loaded this shortcut, followed the steps in the video and still get error no available devices available. i do have premium, created developers account, set the client id and secret. any help is greatly appreciated. installed on iphone 15 pro max

  17. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 10, 2023 at 12:00 am

    Liam,
    Yes, you can do it in Shortcuts with Spotify API.

  18. Liam says:
    October 9, 2023 at 11:30 pm

    Is there a way to automatically shuffle the Spotify playlist through the play playlist shortcut? I would like to click the shortcut and not have to go into the app to make it shuffle.

  19. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 7, 2023 at 1:48 pm

    Nicholas,
    follow the embedded video to replace the Spotify client ID and client secret. Then it should work. If you still need help, contact me on Telegram. https://t.me/+fd82OOpm6zNjNDhl

  20. Nicholas says:
    October 7, 2023 at 5:14 am

    Hello! Thank you for this wonderful work. Is your API up and running yet? Having trouble as it keeps returning an error for no devices available. Is this step necessary? May I delete it or is a device I’d required to launch the URI?

  21. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 4, 2023 at 12:32 pm

    Ryan Brown,
    If you have replace the Spotify Client ID and Client Secret in the shortcut, you can run the shortcut. It will list all your available devices.

  22. Ryan Brown says:
    October 3, 2023 at 7:06 pm

    Hi Cody, I have watched your embedded video of Play Spotify Album, Artist, or Playlist on Any Device but my device ID text field is blank. ‘Enter your preferred device ID below’. What should be input? I have also opened Spotify and played a song.

  23. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 3, 2023 at 8:27 am

    Rune,
    Sorry, my Spotify account got suspended yestoday, so the API was invalid. I will fix it soon.

  24. Rune says:
    October 3, 2023 at 4:52 am

    Hello, I am trying to get the Shazam to Spotify playlist shortcut to work.
    But I am getting an error right after shazam recognises the track. When the shortcut tries to get dictionary values from the API url it returns the error: Get Dictionary Value failed because Shortcuts couldn’t convert from File to Dictionary.

  25. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 2, 2023 at 8:28 am

    Patricia,
    Watch the embedded video

  26. Patricia Lazatin says:
    October 1, 2023 at 10:12 pm

    For some reasonnI can’t find my device I’d

  27. Cody Chrunos says:
    October 1, 2023 at 6:26 pm

    David,
    This error is probably because you enter a Spotify track URL. Try a ablum or playlist link instead.

  28. David says:
    October 1, 2023 at 3:54 pm

    First, thank you for your work. Amazing! Unfortunately I have troubles running your play spotify shortcut. It didn‘t work first, then it did and now it stopped again. Seems random to me. Thst‘s the error I get.

    {“error”:{“status”:400,”message”:”Invalid context uri”}}

    Perhaps it‘s an ios 17 problem?

  29. Cody Chrunos says:
    September 28, 2023 at 5:11 pm

    DHS,
    Have you tried my shortcut? My Play Spotify Shortcut can set a specific device to play.

  30. DHS says:
    September 28, 2023 at 12:37 pm

    Any way to continue play last played Spotify via airplay, basically handover from iPad to Sonos via airplay? I usually have to switch manually from playing in iPad to AirPlay, select device, then select AirPlay and Sonos speakers.

    Cheers

  31. C.A. says:
    September 22, 2023 at 1:39 am

    Anyone having issues after IOS 17 update on the Spotify shortcut ???? The one that plays any playlist on any device ??

    Mine just won’t play anything anymore

    Before the update it was running smoothly

  32. Cody Chrunos says:
    September 6, 2023 at 12:11 am

    jc,
    You should allow this shortcut to access your iCloud. This shortcut will ask you login to Spotify and generate a refresh token and save it to your iCloud.
    The next time, you run it and it will read the refresh token from your iCloud, so you don’t need to login to Spotify again.

  33. jc says:
    September 4, 2023 at 9:27 am

    hi, ty for your work
    tried the Play Spotify Album, Artist, or Playlist
    it says : “error file not found”, any ideas ?

  34. Cody Chrunos says:
    July 4, 2023 at 7:31 pm

    @Jaafar Amjad,
    Play Spotify music on any of your device and run the shortcut again. Also, Play Spotify Playlist Shortcut requires Spotify Premium.

  35. Jaafar Amjad says:
    July 4, 2023 at 6:59 pm

    I cant use play spotify shortcut. It keeps telling me “No available devices available.”

  36. Nadja says:
    June 25, 2023 at 4:45 am

    any way to shuffle a playlist with the play spotify shortcut?

  37. Cody Chrunos says:
    June 17, 2023 at 11:14 am

    Lukas,
    Can you tell me which shortcut?

  38. Lukas says:
    June 9, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    Hey – I always get the following error:
    Conversion Error
    Get Dictionary Value failed because Shortcuts couldn’t convert from File to Dictionary.

    It‘s the dictionary step after the api call.

    Looking forward for help 🙂

    Best,
    Lukas

  39. Cody Chrunos says:
    May 25, 2023 at 6:40 pm

    Neil,
    I forgot to remove a few quick look actions which used only for troubleshooting. You can simply remove these actions or get the new version.

  40. Neil says:
    May 25, 2023 at 2:20 am

    Thanks greatly , got there in the end however the experience isn’t as clean as before. Had many pop ups with jibbish text and had to choose a title from a list each time. I can live with it.

    Thanks.

  41. Cody Chrunos says:
    May 24, 2023 at 11:35 am

    Subhadeep, Will, Neil,
    Spotify Donwloader 2.1 is released. I will update Spotify Playlist Downloader later.

  42. Subhadeep paira says:
    May 24, 2023 at 12:49 am

    Its showing “the index u specified was outside the possible range (you asked for item 2, but the list has only one)

    Please help

  43. Will says:
    May 23, 2023 at 6:04 am

    The “Spotify to MP3” gives an error. The “Spotify Playlist Downloader” runs fine but I cannot find the files anywhere.

  44. Neil says:
    May 23, 2023 at 3:01 am

    Here in the UK I used to use Spotify to mp3 v1.8 for single Spotify tracks and worked most of the time, that no longer works and tried v2.
    Getting error “Numerical argument out of domain
    The index you specified was outside the possible range you asked for item 2, but the list only has 1).”

  45. Andyb says:
    May 19, 2023 at 1:50 pm

    Hey here is the link.

    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX76Wlfdnj7AP?si=ANHdKODtTteKOrxpE0IqQg

    The playlist dowloader no longer seems to work.

  46. Ashish says:
    May 8, 2023 at 4:05 am

    Spotify play list shortcut is nice but a small problem for every song it is asking location to save but can you do it like giving location only once and to download all the songs in that location . I tried to give the file location but that was not working it is telling that file is not found . Please reply

  47. Cody Chrunos says:
    May 2, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    Andyb,
    Why not? When asked how many songs are in the playlist, input the number, and it should work. If it does not, please share the playlist link.

  48. Andyb says:
    May 2, 2023 at 3:48 pm

    Okay got it going. Any chance it could do playlists that are 200-250 songs?

  49. Cody Chrunos says:
    March 15, 2023 at 9:09 pm

    Marcelo Cronos,
    Use what?

  50. Marcelo Cronos says:
    March 15, 2023 at 8:23 am

    Till now, i cann’t use it!

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