Apple Pushes Collaborative Apple Music Playlists Launch to 2024

[klasma]

Probably iOS 23.0 will be the same as iOS 22.7, and will just mark the beginning of starting to attempt to implement all the new features planned for iOS 23.

 

[cudi]

Collaborative Apple Music playlists, a feature that Apple has promised for iOS 17, won't be coming in 2023. With today's iOS 17.2 release, Apple updated its iOS 17 features list [PDF] to note that the option to collaborate on playlists has been delayed.

Apple tested collaborative playlists in the early iOS 17.2 betas, but ended up removing the feature in the fourth iOS 17.2 beta. There were likely bugs in the option that Apple was not able to remedy in time to bring the feature to iOS 17.2, and as iOS 17.2 will be the last publicly available update to iOS 17 in 2023, we won't be getting collaborative playlists until 2024.

In the iOS 17.2 beta, playlists gained a "Collaborate" option that created a link to a playlist, and anyone with access to that link was able to add to the playlist. Users had control over who was able to contribute, with an option to approve each person that asked to join and tools for removing users.

It is not clear when collaborative playlists in Apple Music might launch, but we will likely get an iOS 17.3 update in January, with testing to begin in December.

While collaborative playlists did not come in the iOS 17.2 update, Apple did add a Favorites Apple Music playlist that aggregates songs that are favorited.

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Delay it! Give me working and functioning features. Take as long as you need, I need no bugs

 

[pettit03]

Admittedly I’m an ”old” 46, but I just don’t see why I would even want to share my playlist. Don’t get me wrong, having the option will be great. I’m all for it. I just don’t see a use case for me. My family are AM users, but we have way different taste in music. I really don’t want to listen to my wife’s country playlist. She doesn‘t want to listen to my style of music either. Neither of us are wanting to listen to our teenage kids playlist. But again, having the option is great.

I get it. We use it in the beta so my wife and I can add songs to our 5 year olds playlist we use on the drive to school.

 

[MallardDuck]

Hopefully there will be a setting to completely disable this and stop any nagging and pestering.

I'm still looking for that option so my phone doesn't try to teach me how to mute my airpods every time I take them out.

 

[Rafagon]

This is the main feature I was looking forward to in iOS 17. Oh well, I can wait longer.

I'm also disappointed.

I guess Apple was too busy adding the "new keyboard layouts for eight Sámi languages."

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[murdoc2k]

Seriously? How much work can it be. Others have had this for forever, just copy it. Ridiculous

Software developer chiming in here. Software development is HARD. It's not as easy as copy and paste. There are a lot of details that the engineer needs to pay attention to and test.

Apple has many apps that needs to integrate into its OS to create the "magical experience". There are a lot of moving parts and many things can go wrong.

I've been using iOS since iOS 3 and the amount of complexity has grown over the years where I would say iOS 17 has been one of the worst releases for Apple in terms of number of bugs I've noticed.

My family members have had their notes completely messed up after the upgrade to settings randomly being turned off in the Home app and music app volume control glitches when using Air Play over HomePod.

While delaying features is not desirable for users like us, it is far better for the user experience to take the time to get it right rather than rushing it and having everything fall apart.

Software development is a balance of improving efficiency and performance of the code, fixing bugs while still churning out features that work seamlessly across all devices developed by different teams; Doing all 3 things at once is what makes software development difficult.

 

[Skyscraperfan]

A collaborative list of adult movies would be more fun. I do not see the value of friends with different music tastes adding songs to the same list. Will there be an option to ban people who add a Justin Bieber song?

 

[josselinco]

How long has Spotify had this feature?

Did a friends playlist like that in like 2010 on Spotify

 

[Bigalig2003]

I would have thought Apple would surely first remove all the bugs in Apple Music first, rather than introducing new features which on the surface, may have a limited appeal especially to the collector community - I have 23000 tracks that are proving to be a nightmare to manage e.g. error 54 messages and yes I have tried every Apple solution to fix it but it still fails. I've had enough and moved to Doppler - each to their own I suppose!

 

[montuori]

Seriously? How much work can it be. Others have had this for forever, just copy it. Ridiculous

You sound like pretty much every product manager I've worked with.

 

[tsduke]

You sound like pretty much every product manager I've worked with.

The point is more about this not being a new concept. It’s been around for years and apple is still catching up to competition.

 

[ijordano]

This really seems like a feature that one person at apple could code in an afternoon