Apple Launches iOS 8.4, Apple Music, Revamped Music App and Beats 1

dgstorm · Jun 30, 2015

It's an amazing Tuesday for Apple! They just had a massive release of multiple products and more starting today. First up, Apple just launched new music related products, services and updates. Apple Music is the big launch, and it also includes a newly improved Music App. Apple Music is similar to Apple's former Beats Music. The service allows users to listen to an unlimited amount of music for $9.99 per month or $14.99 on a family plan which supports up to 6 people.

On top of Apple Music, a Beats 1 radio station comes along for the ride. Beats 1 features 24-hour live human-curated music at no added charge. It also includes Apple Music Connect which is a social networking platform for artists to interact with fans and share content.

Even for folks who aren't interested in these awesome Music services from Apple, there's still some exciting news if you own a mobile Apple device. They also launched iOS 8.4 to go with these new services. One of the main changes is the aforementioned upgrade to the Music App. The new design for the Music App includes:

Displayed pictures of artists in the Artists view
A new MiniPlayer with an enhanced "Now Playing" look
Personalized playlists
Global search capabilities to make searching in the Music App even easier
A streamlined design for the radio to bolster music discovery

There are a few other changes inherent in iOS 8.4, including they following:

Apple moved audiobooks from the Music app to the iBooks app
There's also a new Audiobooks for CarPlay app, which gives drivers a standalone app dedicated to audiobooks
Finally, all books, print, and audio can be found in one convenient spot now

Overall, it's like Apple had a big product launch day without all of the fancy fanfare they are known for. Either way, we can't wait to dive into all of the music related products and updates.

4Nines · Jun 30, 2015

Looks like I know what I'm doing the rest of the day

Pinkpoison · Jun 30, 2015

Just installed it, I like the new music design.

J. A. · Jun 30, 2015

I like the app icon.
Radio seems to work almost the same way as iTunes Radio did.

scifan57 · Jun 30, 2015

It's a lot different but I like the new design.

scifan57 · Jul 13, 2015

I can see a complete list of every song in my library listed alphabetically without them being in groups.

john doe · Jul 14, 2015

oh hell......i had this big long rant going and then i seen what the issue was . the update put my library on artist lookup . i switched it to SONGS and now everything looks normal .
rant over ....my bad
my music icon is on the left though and the connect on the right . did you move yours around or is the screen shot in reverse ?

J. A. · Jul 14, 2015

It looks the same on my iPhone

It's not possible to move around the tabs.

john doe · Jul 15, 2015

hhmmm thats odd.... heres mine ,is there a way to get rid of this recently added thing? none of this was recently added .

ps- iphone 4s here

scifan57 · Jul 15, 2015

john doe said:
View attachment 21044 hhmmm thats odd.... heres mine ,is there a way to get rid of this recently added thing? none of this was recently added .

ps- iphone 4s here

That recently added section is part of the standard layout and cannot be deleted.

rasmith1959 · Jul 15, 2015

john doe said:
View attachment 21044 hhmmm thats odd.... heres mine ,is there a way to get rid of this recently added thing? none of this was recently added .

ps- iphone 4s here

That's the way mine looks and I have a 5c. So I guess it's all dependent on which phone you have (scifan and J.A. have 6/6+).

Roy

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john doe · Jul 15, 2015

thanks roy , i figured that was the issue

scifan57 · Jul 15, 2015

Mine looked different in the screenshot because I had scrolled down the page to fill the screen with the songs list, which put the recently added section out of view.
Here's what it looks like without scrolling first.