Apple Launches New 'Snapshot' Web Page: 'Your Favorites, At a Glance'

[MacRumors]

Apple today launched a new page that highlights content from popular music artists, actors, and athletes across three of its biggest services.

The new "Snapshot on Apple" page has a scrolling carousel of celebrities, including Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Brie Larson, Shohei Ohtani, Lionel Messi, Stephen Curry, Serena Williams, and many others. There are also pages for the bands Coldplay and BTS.

Each page includes some basic details about the person or band, and showcases their related content across the Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Podcasts apps. For example, Billie Eilish's page highlights her songs in Apple Music, her Apple TV+ documentary from 2021, and her appearances on a variety of podcasts.

"Your favorites, at a glance," the page says. "Discover more about the artists, actors, and athletes you love across Apple."

A tipster alerted us to the page's existence today, and we can confirm that snapshot.apple.com is a new address. Unfortunately, the page currently has a very basic design, with no search functionality. Apple has yet to officially announce the page, and it is unclear how or where the company plans to promote it.

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[TechWhisperer]

Apple has truly lost its way. Stop cozying up to the celebs and start innovating again.

 

[WilliApple]

Soooo whats the point of this?

 

[jz0309]

Apple has truly lost its way. Stop cozying up to the celebs and start innovating again.

Have they “lost” their way or has the road changed?
To be clear, I can care less about any of those “celebrities” and have no intentions of ever visiting that website, but it appears that the needs of the customers are changing…

 

[iToph]

There still are Apple Music users??? 😆 don’t sink so

 

[TechWhisperer]

Have they “lost” their way or has the road changed?
To be clear, I can care less about any of those “celebrities” and have no intentions of ever visiting that website, but it appears that the needs of the customers are changing…

Apple keeps making services nobody asks for just to keep you trapped in their ecosystem. Look at their track record, they hype up features that barely anyone ends up using. Remember those awkward "Slofies"? Apple acted like slow-motion selfies would change our lives, but they disappeared because literally nobody needed them.

 

[arkitect]

That's it Apple!

Give us the important things… man… I don't know how I got by without "Celeb Watch"™
I can just feel my productivity increasing.

FFS. 🤦🏻‍♂️

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Soooo whats the point of this?

Judging by how bare-bones it is it looks like something that came out of an intern's summer project. It's an interesting idea if you're interested in specific people I guess.

 

[fel10]

Wow, this looks incredibly useless

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

Have they “lost” their way or has the road changed?
To be clear, I can care less about any of those “celebrities” and have no intentions of ever visiting that website, but it appears that the needs of the customers are changing…

No it's definitely a real problem.

A lot of the Apple TV shows feel like a vehicle for a prominent actor and Apple Music focusses way too much on interviews with artists over user experience of the actual software.

They are absolutely obsessed with Billie Eilish.

 

[Gunner49]

Messi, but no CR7?
Steph Curry, but no Lebron James?
Brad Pitt, but no Idris Elba?

Wow! What a list to promote!

 

[Windoes]

While we wait for 15.5 and 18.5…

 

[mrfunnypenguin]

This definitely nice, does not need its own website though. Kind of feel like it belongs in the "About" area of these streaming services.

 

[jz0309]

Apple keeps making services nobody asks for just to keep you trapped in their ecosystem. Look at their track record, they hype up features that barely anyone ends up using. Remember those awkward "Slofies"? Apple acted like slow-motion selfies would change our lives, but they disappeared because literally nobody needed them.

“Nobody asks for” - you really believe that?
Did anybody ask for an iPod, an iPhone?

The few news sites that I visit all have some section where “celebrities” or “influencers” are featured with some whatever, it seems to be a trend and it appears to me that Apple is following that trend.
Again, I don’t care about this but certainly some people do…

 

[geWAPpnet]

Ping 2.0?

 

[turbineseaplane]

Remember those awkward "Slofies"? Apple acted like slow-motion selfies would change our lives, but they disappeared because literally nobody needed them.

Wow - I honestly don't remember these (seriously!)

When was that?

 

[Mrkevinfinnerty]

“Nobody asks for” - you really believe that?
Did anybody ask for an iPod, an iPhone?

The few news sites that I visit all have some section where “celebrities” or “influencers” are featured with some whatever, it seems to be a trend and it appears to me that Apple is following that trend.
Again, I don’t care about this but certainly some people do…

On websites where people are actually going for news? This is on Apple.com

 

[Pre86]

It’s only a matter of time before it starts showing up as a left swipe on your Home Screen surfacing ad sponsored content you may be interested in mixed in with a bevy of ads. Sound familiar?

 

[crisneat]

“Nobody asks for” - you really believe that?
Did anybody ask for an iPod, an iPhone?

The few news sites that I visit all have some section where “celebrities” or “influencers” are featured with some whatever, it seems to be a trend and it appears to me that Apple is following that trend.
Again, I don’t care about this but certainly some people do…

Actually, there’s a big difference between creating entirely new products — like the iPod and iPhone — and pumping out small, gimmicky features inside an already mature ecosystem.

Nobody was asking for an iPod or an iPhone because those were revolutionary ideas that solved real problems in new ways. They expanded what technology could do. In contrast, something like “Slofies” isn’t solving anything; it’s just trying to manufacture hype around something trivial.

It’s not innovation when you endlessly bolt on flashy, unnecessary features just to create marketing buzz or trap users deeper into your ecosystem. It’s feature creep.

True innovation meets real needs — even needs people didn’t know they had yet. Adding slow-motion selfies and pretending it’s a revolution is just noise.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I can't believe we are comparing:

"the iPod & iPhone"

with

"a webpage to learn about celebrities and where their stuff on Apple Services is"

 

[jamezcua]

Ok... thanks??

 

[AlexESP]

Apple keeps making services nobody asks for just to keep you trapped in their ecosystem. Look at their track record, they hype up features that barely anyone ends up using. Remember those awkward "Slofies"? Apple acted like slow-motion selfies would change our lives, but they disappeared because literally nobody needed them.

If they keep you trapped in their ecosystem, it’s because people like them. Whether anybody asked for them or not is irrelevant. Apple doesn’t have any special power to lock people on products they don’t like.

 

[imamacperson]

I don't love celebrities. Let's move on to something more important!

 

[KillerScoregasm]

Nobody wanted this.

 

[AlexESP]

Nobody was asking for an iPod or an iPhone because those were revolutionary ideas that solved real problems in new ways. They expanded what technology could do. In contrast, something like “Slofies” isn’t solving anything; it’s just trying to manufacture hype around something trivial.

It’s “solving” entertainment. Since this is a “the old Apple wouldn’t” kind of argument: it’s the same company that created Photo Booth.

And I haven’t seen many comments saying that SJ lost his way because of Photo Booth. Just to be clear, I don’t care about slofies or Photo Booth, but I can still see the point. I also don’t care about AI imagine generation, but I see how people might consider it funny.