Apple tries to stop it, but there are ways to change your default apps on iOS. You can use your favorite browser, email client, and mapping app instead of Apple’s own apps.
You can forcibly change your default apps by jailbreaking your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, but that’s not the only way. In fact, it’s not even the recommended way — unless you really want to jailbreak for another reason.
The Jailbreak Method
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Okay, let’s just get this one out of the way. The one way to truly change your default apps is to jailbreak your device. Once you have, you can install Cydia tweaks that let you choose your preferred browser, email client, and mapping app.
Unless your’e driven completely mad by iOS’s limitations, we don’t really recommend jailbreaking — not just for this reason, at least. Jailbreaking introduces more problems to deal with and prevents you from upgrading as quickly as you might like to. Most people probably shouldn’t jailbreak, just as most won’t want to root their Android phone.
Pick Apps That Give You a Choice
Many apps have worked around this limitation by providing a built-in option that allows you to select your favorite browser or email app. For example, if you use Flipboard, you can head into its Settings screen, tap Browser, and choose Chrome or another browser. Flipboard will then open links in the browser you choose instead of Safari.
Developers have had to work around iOS’s lack of support for choosing system-wide default options by adding support for this to each individual application. You’ll need to check the settings on each different app you use and choose your default apps there, if the app supports it.
Apple is perfectly fine with developers offering this option, but it’s a mess. They should just allow users to choose a default app system-wide to save everything’s time and sanity.
Use Apps That Work Together
Apps can launch other applications, so some developers have taken advantage of this to build ecosystems of apps that work well together and use each other as the defaults.
Google’s iOS apps are the star of the show here. Let’s say you have Chrome, Gmail, and Google Maps installed. When you tap a link in the Gmail app, it will open in the Chrome app. When you tap a map link in Chrome, it will open in the Google Maps app. And, when you tap a business’s email address in the Google Maps app, it will open in the Gmail app.
If you want to change default apps because you really prefer Google’s services, try just using as many of Google’s apps as possible. They’ll work together and allow you to avoid the standard iOS apps as much as possible. If you use third-party apps, hopefully they offer support for choosing your own preferred apps.
Use the Share Sheet
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iOS 8 introduced support for extensions to the system “Share” sheet. In any application that offers a Share button, you can tap the Share button and open the content in any app that can add itself to the share sheet.
Take Pocket, for example, By default, Pocket simply opens web pages in a built-in web browser. Let’s say you wanted to open links in an external browser instead. You’d tap the Share button, and then tap More to bring up the Share sheet. Apps can declare support for web pages and become a Share target, so you could probably enable your favorite app’s Share extension and have it appear in the list.
Pocket also has an integrated “Chrome” share button. Many apps include support for common third-party apps like Chrome and Gmail, making it easy to use your preferred app instead of Apple’s default one.
“Open In” Bookmarklets for Safari
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The Safari web browser supports bookmarklets — small scripts that can be saved as bookmarks, but which run a script on the current page when you tap them. iOS also offers an URL scheme that lets Safari launch third-party apps. In short, it’s possible to make a bookmarklet you add to Safari that will then open the current page in Google Chrome. If you prefer Chrome to Safari, you could add this bookmarklet to Safari. If an app ever makes you go into Safari when you tap a link, you can tap the bookmarklet and take that link straight to Chrome.
Here’s an “Open in Chrome” bookmarklet you can use. Install it as described on the page. You can then tap the Bookmarks icon in Safari and tap your “Open in Chrome” bookmark to send the current page to Chrome. If you prefer another browser or app, you may be able to find or create a bookmarklet that does something similar for it!
Apple now allows you to change your system keyboard and gives the full speed of Safari’s Nitro JavaScript engine to third-party browsers — not to mention its new extension system! The ability to choose a preferred web browser and email client feels like the missing piece of the puzzle here, and is long overdue.
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Hi Andreas,
Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. We appreciate your interest in Windows 10.
Are you using Music app to open music files?
Which is the default program set for Music app to play music?
Method 1: Run the apps troubleshooter included within Windows OS by following the steps below, and check if the issue persist.
Step 1: Type troubleshooting in the search box next to Start icon,and press Enter.
Step 2: Click on View All from the left hand screen panel, and select Windows Store apps.
Step 3: Follow the on-screen instruction.
If the issue persist, run the App troubleshooter from the link below, and check if the issue is resolved:
Method 2: If the issue persist, follow the steps below to set a default program for playing videos, and check if the issue is resolved.
Step 1: Go to settings by typing Settings in the search bar next to Start button, and press Enter.
Step 2: Click on System option from the window, and select Default apps from the left side panel of the screen.
Step 3: Under Choose Default apps, click on Music player option, and chose a default app from Choose an App window.
Step 4: Close the window, and check if the issue is resolved.
Method 3: If the issue persist, follow the steps below, and check if the issue is resolved.
Step 1: Go to settings by typing Settings in the search bar next to Start button, and press Enter.
Step 2: Click on System option from the window, and select Default apps from the left side panel of the screen.
Step 4: Scroll the page down, and click on Choose default apps by file type.
Step 5: Click on the file types individually, and select a program to make it as default from Choose an App window.
Step 6: Close the window, and check if the changes are effective.
Hope this helps!
Get back to us if you have queries regarding Windows, we will be happy to help you. Thank you, Microsoft Community. Change Default Music Player Windows 10
Up until now, if you wanted to play Spotify music on the Amazon Echo, you had to say the artist or song you wanted to play and then tack on “on Spotify” at the end. It’s a little cumbersome, but now you no longer have to do that, as you can set Spotify as your Echo’s default music provider.
Google Home How To Change Default Music Player
By default, the Echo uses Amazon Music whenever you ask it to play a song, but after you set Spotify as the default music provider, you can simply say something like, “Alexa, play The Weeknd” and it will start playing it from Spotify instead of Amazon Music. The same thing works with your Spotify playlists as well if you say, “Alexa, play (playlist name) playlist.”
To set Spotify as the default music provider on your Amazon Echo, start by opening up the Alexa app on your smartphone and tapping on the menu button in the top-left corner of the screen.
From there, tap on “Settings”.
Scroll down and select “Music & Media” under “Account”.
At the bottom, tap on “Customize my music service preferences”.
Tap on the drop-down menu where it says “Amazon Music” under “My default music library”.
Select “Spotify” and hit “Done”.
Tap on “Done” again.
After that, you’ll no longer need to tack on “on Spotify” whenever you want Alexa to play music from the third-party music service. You can still use Amazon Music when you want to by tacking on “on Amazon Music” at the end of a command, but by default, the Echo will use Spotify for now on.
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You may need to change the default programs associated with certain protocols and file extensions. Most of us end up with changing the default browser or image viewer to another program of our choice. If you are one of those, then this post will show you how to change default programs in Windows 10.
Change default program in Windows 10
There are two methods in Windows 10 to set or change default programs. One is the classic Control Panel method and the other is easier – via the new Settings app. We will talk of the Settings app first and then about the Control Panel method.
The Settings app offers only a few default apps that can be changed. The list includes Video Player, Mail, Music Player, Calendar, and Browser. The programs or protocols are not visible. In short, the Settings app offers just a few options whereas the list in Control Panel is bigger. Using the latter, you can change default programs for a wider range of protocols or services.
As an example, let us see how to change the default web browser.
Change default browser via Windows 10 Settings app
Windows 10 sets Microsoft Edge as the default browser for opening web links. The example tells you how to change it to Firefox. You can change it to anything you want, provided the related application is installed on the device. Firefox will not open pdf. For example, if you wish to change it to Chrome, you must have Chrome installed on the device so that you can select it in the list of default programs – both in PC Settings and Control Panel method.
To change the default browser:
Press Win+I to open the Settings app and select System. Next, scroll down to Default Apps in the left pane and click on it.
When you click on Default Apps in the left pane, the contents of right pane will change to list popular protocols and will look like the image below:
Scroll down in the right pane to Web Browser and click on it
You will see the list of installed browsers.
Click on the browser you want to set as the default browser and exit.
That is all you need to do. The next time the system needs to fire up a browser, it will open the default browser you set.
Change default programs via Windows 10 Control Panel
If the default protocol that you wish to change is not available in the Settings app, you can use Control Panel to change the default programs in Windows 10.
The method remains the same it was in earlier versions. Via Win+X menu, open the Control Panel and click on Default Programs.
Click on the first option saying Set Your Default Programs.
Control Panel will find the installed apps and programs and display the list. You will see the list of installed program in the left pane and the right pane will contain a description of program, along with options that let you set the program as default for files/protocols it can handle
Select the program that you wish to set as default, and then click on Set this Program as Default. This will set the program as default for files and protocols it can handle.
To make further changes to files and protocols, it can handle, click on Choose Defaults for this Program.
You will get a window that displays the list of file extensions and protocols registered by the program. Check the boxes against the files and protocols that you want the program to handle by default. Click Save to return to the previous screen and close the Control Panel
This explains how to change default programs in Windows 10 – and you can follow the same procedure to change the default media player too.
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