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iOS 26: Eight New Features in Apple Music
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Love this list of new features!! One thing, though: … no Handoff?
Legit, why do you all think there is no Handoff for Apple Music?
I know you can tap HomePods with your phone or whatever, but why not actual Handoff between macOS and iOS, etc.?
Legit, why do you all think there is no Handoff for Apple Music?
I know you can tap HomePods with your phone or whatever, but why not actual Handoff between macOS and iOS, etc.?
I’ve been waiting for this for years, and I’m still waiting.
I wish the Discovery Playlist was tailored to the time of day. For instance, it could suggest songs that align with the music I listen to during the day and at night. Since I listen to the Dreaming Playlist almost every night while I sleep, it assumes that’s what I want to hear during the day which has crushed my algo.
why can we not have a parametric or at least graphic equalizer at this point? Why are we still stuck with truly useless presets from the very first iPod? In a supposedly high-end device, why do I need to fiddle with settings every time I connect by Bluetooth to a different audio device? Why can it not remember my settings for each (car, speaker, headphone, earbuds, etc)
Why do we rely on earbud manufacturers to hopefully put some type of EQ in their driver instead of having it in the OS??
It’s such a basic feature I mean stereos have had this since the 70s. MP3 players (except apple) had this from the 90s. Even freaking walkmans from the 80s. I’m sure it will take a single software engineer about an hour to add this, so why don’t we have it? It’s embarrassing that an audio player in 2025 still lacks this feature.
Why do we rely on earbud manufacturers to hopefully put some type of EQ in their driver instead of having it in the OS??
It’s such a basic feature I mean stereos have had this since the 70s. MP3 players (except apple) had this from the 90s. Even freaking walkmans from the 80s. I’m sure it will take a single software engineer about an hour to add this, so why don’t we have it? It’s embarrassing that an audio player in 2025 still lacks this feature.
I wonder if this could work with the "back tap" feature in Accessibility that detects when you tap two or three times on the back of the phone. Seems like maybe you could map that to shortcuts that do the things you describe. This could backfire if it activates by accident, but maybe worth a try.
Seriously? That's a huge omission. I use that feature a lot. In fact, the simiplicity of the Up Next queue was one of the things that attracted me to Apple Music in the first place...
Two things I want. First, the ability to block an artist/band. Second, handoff or continue on another device, or whatever they want to call it. Meaning whatever I am listening to on one device should transfer to another. For example, listening to something on iPhone, then moving to MacBook.
Other streaming services have had both of these features for years now. I have submitted feedback for both features to Apple already.
Other streaming services have had both of these features for years now. I have submitted feedback for both features to Apple already.
I turned automix off and went back to crossfade. I find that a lot of times it totally cuts off the first verse of the next song, and in one case completely switched to the next song before the first one right before it got to the bridge.
Didn't know about playlist folders though. I make a soundtrack playlist every time I go on a trip; sort of the audio equivalent of a photo album. So I put those in a folder, and it will be good to add the ones I've made on my iPhone to that folder. They're all up on my AM profile, so feel free to look me up and judge away. lol
Didn't know about playlist folders though. I make a soundtrack playlist every time I go on a trip; sort of the audio equivalent of a photo album. So I put those in a folder, and it will be good to add the ones I've made on my iPhone to that folder. They're all up on my AM profile, so feel free to look me up and judge away. lol
The one thing I wish they would address is allowing for the bookmarking and organization of radio station streams. You can manually look up most of your local radio stations and stream them in Music, but they don't show up visually anywhere in the UI.
It's kind of frustrating because since you can't bookmark them at all, you have to just remember the call sign for each one. Not the end of the world, but it seems like a lame omission. Maybe they consider them competition for their own "radio" stations.
For example, I often use AirPlay with my HomePods, but find that the queued up music I'm listening to "moves" over to the HomePod and detaches itself from the music that was queued up on the phone.
For example, let's say I start playing an album on my phone on the way home. I get up to track 3, and then when I get home I move playback my HomePods. Let's say I now let the HomePods play 2 more tracks, so they're up to track 5 on the HomePods.
But now, let's say I stop playback on the HomePods and go out for a walk with my AirPods. But when I resume playback, the phone starts playing that album back at track 3 where the phone left off when I started playing on the HomePods. What happened was that the moment I did that, the HomePods started a separate and parallel queue from the one on my iPhone. The only way to keep continuity is, before I leave home, to "move" the stream back off the HomePods onto the iPhone (which fails sometimes). I know this all sounds really complicated — and that's because it is!
The whole thing is incredibly messy, and I'm wondering if this is the reason Spotify hasn't moved to direct streaming on HomePods — because it would break their handoff feature which works much more intuitively.
It's kind of frustrating because since you can't bookmark them at all, you have to just remember the call sign for each one. Not the end of the world, but it seems like a lame omission. Maybe they consider them competition for their own "radio" stations.
I moved away from Spotify a few years ago, but this was one of the things it did REALLY well and which Apple Music somehow really screws up, even when Apple controls all the devices involved.
For example, I often use AirPlay with my HomePods, but find that the queued up music I'm listening to "moves" over to the HomePod and detaches itself from the music that was queued up on the phone.
For example, let's say I start playing an album on my phone on the way home. I get up to track 3, and then when I get home I move playback my HomePods. Let's say I now let the HomePods play 2 more tracks, so they're up to track 5 on the HomePods.
But now, let's say I stop playback on the HomePods and go out for a walk with my AirPods. But when I resume playback, the phone starts playing that album back at track 3 where the phone left off when I started playing on the HomePods. What happened was that the moment I did that, the HomePods started a separate and parallel queue from the one on my iPhone. The only way to keep continuity is, before I leave home, to "move" the stream back off the HomePods onto the iPhone (which fails sometimes). I know this all sounds really complicated — and that's because it is!
The whole thing is incredibly messy, and I'm wondering if this is the reason Spotify hasn't moved to direct streaming on HomePods — because it would break their handoff feature which works much more intuitively.
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Wish Apple would fix the volume bug that has been plaguing Apple Music for the last year. Not cool when I select an AirPlay 2 zone in my house and the volume slider goes to FULL VOLUME. It's beyond frustrating. Blowing speakers Been told by Apple to turn off Sound Check and that didn't help. They know the problem exists. Affects Apple TVs, AirPort Express and 3rd party AirPlay 2 DACs.
…and STILL no manual EQ in for iOS with Apple Music….the only REALLY useful feature that could have been given, the rest are just frills.
This one I really hate not having ... I had full featured EQ (via EQE) on jailbroken devices YEARS ago and it was so awesome.
I didn't say it will be bad in the future, it's bad now.
Back in the day maybe 13 years ago I was listening to Last FM and I started off a radio station with a song I liked, after that random related songs would come on and this song came on, it seemed to maybe French or Brazilian folk-pop. The suggestions it was playing that day were amazing. A time later I was thinking back to when I used Last FM and I wondered what music that was... I never was able to find out. See, at the time I was none the wiser and presumed in general these recommendation engines were very good. Nothing came close since.
Pro tip: if you ever hear a song you really like, be sure to get the name of it, and if you cannot, try to record a 30-second snippet of it so you may do so later on. You may never hear it nor those gems in that playlist again.
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Its crazy that they removed this. I had to check in the Apple Music app on my SO‘s Android phone and she still can do it. Been reporting it since beta 2/3 when I first noticed it but it’s still absent in beta 7.