Apple Music Gaining Ability to Pin Your Favorite Playlists, Albums, and Artists in iOS 26

[MacRumors]

Apple today revealed a few major updates coming to Apple Music later this year in iOS 26, including the ability to pin content you return to frequently.

Apple calls this feature "Music pins," and it'll let you pin playlists, albums, and artists at the top of your Library tab.

Apple Music is also gaining lyrics translation and lyrics pronunciation, so that it's easier to listen to and appreciate music from all over the world.

There's also a new "AutoMix" feature that uses intelligence to transition from one song to the next like a DJ.

Article Link: Apple Music Gaining Ability to Pin Your Favorite Playlists, Albums, and Artists in iOS 26

 

[ViralTrendsToday]

Now if only they actually recommend good music.

 

[JGIGS]

Haven't watched the keynote but I'm assuming ios still doesn't have smart playlist functionality? I'm still baffled why this hasn't been added. Not to mention BPM would be nice in apple music as well to make exercise playlists.

 

[jonnyb098]

Nice, only took 10 years but I’ll take it!

 

[Sugarcubes]

This is actually a good feature I've been waiting for for a very long time, so that's cool at least.

 

[d686546s]

This feels useful, but not exactly the feature I'd expect to be pointed out at a keynote.

Apple Music is okay, but what I really miss from Spotify is a better algorithm to discover new music.

 

[applefan8254]

Can we get ability to adjust the music playback speed? Thank you

 

[Gengar]

That Auto-Mix feature would’ve come in handy back when Beyoncé dropped Renaissance…

 

[phuklok1]

if only we can get a real EQ and have it save states for each bluetooth device! why is this so difficult apple?! isn't this a music player? devices had this in the early 00s.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

Finally. Feels like something that should have been done 10 years ago.

 

[macduke]

Can't wait to try Automix on my main playlist which is full of all kinds of varying music genres across many decades. I bet it makes for some weird results.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Now if only they actually recommend good music.

Apple Music does to me. I add new music to my library every week because of the recommendations. I used Spotify for years and found Apple Music did a better job at recommending music for me than Spotify did. Just my experience though. Others likely have different experiences.

 

[svish]

Lyrics translation is a nice addition. Will definitely use it for sure in the future once I update my devices.

 

[london_apple]

That Auto-Mix feature would’ve come in handy back when Beyoncé dropped Renaissance…

AMEN!

 

[elmnt61]

what about radio stations?

i hate navigating to the same one every day.

 

[JosephAW]

Can they please add an option to disable all of Apple beats music stations.

 

[xaanaax]

Funny how tiny features that are not new in other apps get its own news articles, like for example calculator app coming to iPad!

 

[cgs1xx]

so still no equalizer ... ... also would love to be able to turn off all curated content, I just want my own library and maybe the curated stuff could be in a tab somewhere...

 

[CrAkD]

How about instead of this they make playlists that go on forever instead of repeating the same 20 songs or so. Any Apple Music playlist i play starts repeating songs shortly after I start it. Use some of that ai on music selection instead of mixing between songs

 

[flexwithmarius]

Can't wait to try Automix on my main playlist which is full of all kinds of varying music genres across many decades. I bet it makes for some weird results.

Let’s just say it’s far from what even a mediocre DJ can do 😂

 

[It’s always something]

I’m sure I’ll make use of pinning artists, so that’s a good thing.

The Fine Article doesn’t mention my #1 request, sadly: being able to import audio files into my music library from the Files app (or heck, even from the share menu).

 

[baconcat_8964]

Saw couple of videos on YouTube that talk about YouTubers moved from Apple Music to Spotify just for the new AI DJ feature.😂

 

[kurtfoster]

More features that I personally don’t want. You know what would be nice? It would be nice if they would fix the thing they broke with iTunes 7.3, I think. I want to be able to alphabetize my playlists. Nothing more, nothing less. I want playlists that start with numbers at the top, and playlists from A-to-Z below that. Shouldn’t be that hard to do, but I guess it is. I have never gotten a straight answer from anyone as to why this is not possible.

 

[Boeingfan]

How do you use automix?

 

[Cunir]

hopefully they'll let us pin radio stations, or at least add our favourite ones to a playlist, because they drop off the screen so quick and you have to go through the rigmarole of finding them again.