These are the features 9to5Mac was able to find on Apple Music with iOS 16 for now. Although it also works with third-party apps, it’s nice to see what it’s like on Apple’s own Music app. Last but not least, during iOS 16 beta 3, Apple added a new music and podcast preview to the Lock Screen.

Personalized Spatial Audio greatly improves the sound quality of Dolby Atmos with Spatial Audio, and it’s totally worth a try once it’s available to all users later this fall. Available for AirPods 3, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max users on iOS 16, this feature uses the TrueDepth sensor of your iPhone to make a 3D map of your face and ears while using an AirPods device. You can move music from a HomePod to another without it AirPlaying to the other HomePod.Īpple Music users benefit greatly from a new feature called Personalized Spatial Audio.You can drag and drop songs to add next in the queue.Apple Digital Master label is now closer to the song information, while Dolby Atmos and Lossless quality are shown closer to its cover.When using SharePlay via Messages, it now synchronized activities like movies, music, workouts, games, and more with friends while chatting in Messages.It also shows the devices you’re listening to (a HomePod, AirPods, Beats earbuds, and even wired headphones) The Apple Music widget in the iOS 16 Lock Screen is now different.When searching for albums, playlists, singles, etc, you’ll notice that the covers are more rounded.It looks similar to the bar that shows the length of the song Volume HUD has a tweak on the Apple Music app.

In addition, when you open a singer/band profile, there’s a new Favorite toggle that you can “keep track of the artists you care about most with new music notifications and improved recommendations.” With this new feature with Apple Music on iOS 16, you can sort your playlist by Title, Artist, Album, and more. Traditionally, all playlists in the Music app have been sorted by the order in which the songs were added to the playlist: the first songs added at the top and the songs added most recently at the bottom. That said, there are still a few functions and tweaks that users will love when using the music streaming service the new operating system released today.Īpple Music on iOS 16 lets users sort playlists. With iOS 16, different from other years, Apple didn’t announce a ton of new features to Apple Music.

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