iOS 26: How to Use the New Music Pins Feature

[applefan8254]

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

 

[GtrDude]

This jumping hoops wouldn’t be necessary if they just allowed us to use folders like Spotify does.
Then you can have a “Driving to Work” folder.
End of story.

 

[darngooddesign]

This jumping hoops wouldn’t be necessary if they just allowed us to use folders like Spotify does.
Then you can have a “Driving to Work” folder.
End of story.

Or just being able to see a playlist as albums instead of just songs.

 

[Shanghaichica]

That’s a pretty neat feature.

 

[jonnyb098]

Would be good in the music app, but you can currently do that with the Clock app's Timer section.

You can also tell Siri to "Go to sleep in ## minutes", and it will stop playing then.

Yes, I know all that. It's still stupid to not have a button in the app for easier access. People clearly use the music app a TON to go to sleep. JUST MAKE A DAMN BUTTON!

 

[stephanjp]

Why can I only pin to Library tab and not to the top of the Home menu? When I start the Music app, it always defaults to the Home tab. I would like to pin it there to avoid the additional step of clicking Library first. Is there a way to do that?

That's a nice touch.

There's another thing I'd love to (perhaps quite an unusual request). I'd like to be able to add music to playlists without also adding it to my library. Idea being, so I can listen to playlists of something I'm in the mood for... but if I want to just leave my main library suffering, I might not want those particular songs to appear.

Yes. In the settings app. There is a toggle under Library, Add Playlist Songs. As the explanation says leave the toggle off to NOT add songs to your library automatically when you add them to a playlist. There is another toggle there that works the same when you Favorite a song.

 

[videosoul]

Yes. In the settings app. There is a toggle under Library, Add Playlist Songs. As the explanation says leave the toggle off to NOT add songs to your library automatically when you add them to a playlist. There is another toggle there that works the same when you Favorite a song.

Oh! I always thought that was “add to library, but don’t store a file in the library folder on the hard drive”!

I’ll take another look!

 

[ignatius345]

While we're talking about Music app wishlist items, I really wish I could tag tracks instead of only being able to add them to playlists (which are basically folders). The idea here is that ohne could tag something "mellow" and "instrumental" and "acoustic" and be able to create dynamic playlists off combinations of tags like this.

Yes, I know you can make smart playlists on the Mac, but you can't make them on iOS, and there's no way to easily add attributes like tagging.

 

[videosoul]

While we're talking about Music app wishlist items, I really wish I could tag tracks instead of only being able to add them to playlists (which are basically folders). The idea here is that ohne could tag something "mellow" and "instrumental" and "acoustic" and be able to create dynamic playlists off combinations of tags like this.

Yes, I know you can make smart playlists on the Mac, but you can't make them on iOS, and there's no way to easily add attributes like tagging.

Pretty much since iTunes first became a thing I’ve used the “genre” column for exactly this purpose!

 

[ignatius345]

Pretty much since iTunes first became a thing I’ve used the “genre” column for exactly this purpose!

I've gamed that field too, with smart playlists, but it still only functions as the equivalent of one "tag".

 

[videosoul]

I've gamed that field too, with smart playlists, but it still only functions as the equivalent of one "tag".

Why only one?

In the genre column you could write, for example “happy / funny / bouncy” and have a smart playlist that is “all tracks where genre includes happy but does not include funny”.

 

[ignatius345]

Why only one?

In the genre column you could write, for example “happy / funny / bouncy” and have a smart playlist that is “all tracks where genre includes happy but does not include funny”.

Oh, I see. That's an interesting way to hack it, for sure!

But I would really love an official way to do this on iOS and on the Mac. AFAIK you can't do any of this (editing genre tags or creating smart playlists) on an iPhone.

 

[darngooddesign]

I've gamed that field too, with smart playlists, but it still only functions as the equivalent of one "tag".

You can do this with a field like Grouping.

1. For example, add "Instrumental, Mellow" to the Grouping field
2. If you want a Smart Playlist to pull from multiple tags, just add two rules saying "Grouping Contains Instrumental" and "Grouping contains mellow".
3. Make sure Match All rules is enabled

 

[ignatius345]

You can do this with a field like Grouping.

1. For example, add "Instrumental, Mellow" to the Grouping field
2. If you want a Smart Playlist to pull from multiple tags, just add two rules saying "Grouping Contains Instrumental" and "Grouping contains mellow".
3. Make sure Match All rules is enabled

Another great workaround, and thanks for posting it. I may give it a shot.

What I'm saying, though, is that easy and simple tagging (accessible quickly from iOS as well as macOS) would put this kind of power into the hands of people who aren't rooting around in the bowels of the metadata.

Don't get me wrong, I do love a good power tool (and I'm glad such things still exists after the stripping down of iTunes), but none of this is possible on iPhone, the device on which I think most people do the bulk of their music listening.