Oh, I see this is iOS 17.2. Maybe post this kind of thing when folks can actually use it?
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How to Stop Kids Ruining Your Apple Music Recommendations
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Oh, I see this is iOS 17.2. Maybe post this kind of thing when folks can actually use it?
My issue is mostly wanting to get rid of the crap I listen to from time to time. When I first signed up for Apple Music, I listened to a couple of Tenacious D albums for whatever reason. Years later to this day, Tenacious D still makes appearances in my Favorites recommendations.
Jeezes.
Your four year old wants to hear some stupid kid song? You play it. You’re not going to buy them their own iOS device.
So this is a very welcome feature.
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THANK GOD! I have a friend who lives with me and she plays all sorts of rap I don't like and it's so much easier to just turn off recommendations than let mine be corrupted.
The Taylor Swift infection my wife has given my iTunes by asking Alexa to play her songs is worse than than the zombie plague in The Walking Dead.
My daughter is on my account. Thanks to her, my recommendations are always country music, which I can't stand. I wonder if there is a way to filter out her photos. That's all horses and giant four-wheelers.
Considering we’re heading into the holiday season this article should be retitled. How to keep seasonal Holiday Music from infecting your year round suggestions on Apple Music.
What a clunky solution. Probably because Apple wants to promote the usage of Focus.
Would be great if you could reset it if it’s already too far gone. My music taste have changed and Apple Music hasn’t adapted.
I really wish you could use this to toggle clean/explicit versions of tracks.
And how abut an option to stop me seeing on my phone and watch what other family members are playing on the bloody homepods, turning off all hand off features does not turn this feature off like it did in iOS 16 for some reason.
Worst feature ever implemented, I don't want my homescreen taken up by music some random family member plays on some random homepod
Worst feature ever implemented, I don't want my homescreen taken up by music some random family member plays on some random homepod
My kid is now 4 so it's a little late but I ended up not minding the wiggles in the end. Even cocomelon and super simple songs have a few classics.
What have I become...
What have I become...
I never said buy their own iOS device, did I? There devices so kids can play their own music.
- You don’t know every parent situation.
- Too many parents these days give into their kids way too much.
- This is why we have little kids running around in restaurants, because parents don’t know how to say no.
Apple doesn’t believe in options. But all the music services seem pretty stubborn about using everything you do to tune the algorithm. I don’t know why, they still only recommend stuff from the radio or push new albums. If there was just a simple option to remove it from play history that would solve that. But apparently if you don’t remember to turn this incognito mode on first, the only way to get it out is to avoid listening to it and play 500 more songs. Literally.
I don’t know about the restaurants thing, some kids are just wild. There’s only one way to handle that.
Focus is high maintainance. First you have to create your focus modes. Then fine-tune them to include or exclude various apps. Then, over time, you buy a few more apps and you have to go back and tweak all your modes, trying to recall what your rationale was for creating each mode in the first place and if it’s really delivering what you intended.
That and you have to remember to switch in and out of the various modes.
A few months after setup, you forget exactly what each one does and what you might be missing under changing circumstances. There really are days when you‘ll want to get a iMessage ding from absolutely anyone at 2am or a notification from a particular airline app at 3am.
Bottom line: Hiding this Apple Music setting in focus modes multiplies the focus problem while pretending to be doing something about listening history.
I’ve started going to YouTube (no login) just so I can evaluate unknown music without affecting my apple music listening history.
How messed up is that? A music app that drives you elsewhere to discover new music.
Here is a suggestion for Apple, if the homepod knows who's speaking then just show those music controls on that persons device only, not the entire family. So if I ask to play music then only my own personal devices will see whats playing and not anyone else. This problem is not only an annoyance it's a serious privacy issue.
Don't know why this would be too hard to implement considering Siri knows who's voice it is for personal feedback.
Don't know why this would be too hard to implement considering Siri knows who's voice it is for personal feedback.
