Apple Music
Apple Music is a subscription-based online music streaming service from Apple Inc., enabling users to stream or download songs from an extensive catalog for offline listening. The service is integrated into the Apple ecosystem and supports iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android platforms. It provides personalized recommendations, curated playlists, radio stations, and synchronized lyrics display, and supports integration with iCloud Music Library, giving users access to both their own music and streamed content.
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According to 9to5Mac, in the latest iOS 27.2 beta, the Apple Music app icon has been replaced with a black-and-white version.
One speculation is that Apple is advancing an overall visual update of its operating systems, and the black-and-white icon may be paving the way for a more flexible icon tinting system.
When the app icon itself uses a highly saturated single color (such as Apple Music's red), system tinting often struggles to fully cover the original hue, potentially causing color shifts or residual edges; if the icon uses a black-and-white neutral scheme, the adaptability and consistency of system tinting improve significantly.
The icon change in the iOS 27.2 beta is not a user-switchable theme option, but a direct replacement of the default icon.
Last month someone discovered traces of the new Apple Music logo on the Apple Music Hall website.
Since Apple Music launched in 2015, red has been a core element of its brand identity, running through the icon, interface accent colors and even marketing materials.
In the new Apple Music icon, besides the color scheme being changed to black and white, the slant angle of the eighth note is sharper than in the original.
Users can play Apple Music, and the calendar interface requires identifying the user's identity before it can be displayed.
Siri's default bias toward Apple Music has long been a focal point of complaints from competitors such as Spotify.
Before iOS 27, Siri defaulted to Apple Music when handling music playback requests, and users had to say the app name to play content with Spotify.
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60%UnverifiedWhen the app icon itself uses a highly saturated single color (such as Apple Music's red), system tinting often struggles to fully cover the original hue, potentially causing color shifts or residual edges; if the icon uses a black-and-white neutral scheme, the adaptability and consistency of system tinting improve significantly.
50%UnverifiedThe icon change in the iOS 27.2 beta is not a user-switchable theme option, but a direct replacement of the default icon.
50%UnverifiedSince Apple Music launched in 2015, red has been a core element of its brand identity, running through the icon, interface accent colors and even marketing materials.
50%UnverifiedIn the new Apple Music icon, besides the color scheme being changed to black and white, the slant angle of the eighth note is sharper than in the original.
50%UnverifiedUsers can play Apple Music, and the calendar interface requires identifying the user's identity before it can be displayed.
50%UnverifiedSiri's default bias toward Apple Music has long been a focal point of complaints from competitors such as Spotify.
50%UnverifiedBefore iOS 27, Siri defaulted to Apple Music when handling music playback requests, and users had to say the app name to play content with Spotify.
50%UnverifiedDistroKid was founded in 2013 and is one of the most widely used independent music distribution platforms in the world; it uses an annual subscription model (the basic plan is approximately $22 per year) and allows creators to distribute unlimited tracks to platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music while retaining 100% of royalties.
50%UnverifiedOVO supports bringing together local files, Apple Music, some supported SoundCloud content, live streams, and synced folders into a single music library.
50%UnverifiedWokyintosh supports Now Playing display for Apple Music and Spotify, complete with album artwork.
50%UnverifiedVoxelWall supports Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, audio played in various browsers, and local audio files as audio sources.
50%UnverifiedAccording to Apple's financial reports in recent years, revenue from the services business (App Store, Apple Music, iCloud, Apple Pay, etc.) has exceeded 20% of total revenue.
50%UnverifiedLocal Music Organizer does not rely on an Apple Music subscription
50%UnverifiedThe music platforms supported by Lyrimuse include Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, KuGou Music, as well as YouTube Music and Spotify Web in the browser.
50%UnverifiedWord-level lyrics are referred to as "character-by-character lyrics" on Apple Music, and the data typically comes from manual annotation or specialized audio alignment algorithms such as the Montreal Forced Aligner.
50%UnverifiedApple Music and Amazon Music have launched lossless or spatial audio options.
50%UnverifiedMainstream consumer internet products such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Premium, and Amazon Prime use SheerID for student identity verification.
50%UnverifiedApple Music and Amazon Music already support high-resolution streaming at up to 24-bit/192 kHz.
50%UnverifiedEach streaming platform uses a different unique identifier system: Spotify uses its own Track URI, Apple Music uses ISRC and internal IDs, and YouTube Music is based on the YouTube video ID system.
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