TechPhonesiPhonesApple Music just got 3 awesome free iOS 16 feature upgradesiOS 16 brings some great audio upgrades to your iPhoneWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechPhonesiPhonesApple Music just got 3 awesome free iOS 16 feature upgradesiOS 16 brings some great audio upgrades to your iPhoneWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
iOS 16 brings some great audio upgrades to your iPhone
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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TheiOS 16 updatehas been out for several days now, bringing lots of new features to youriPhone– and that means there are also some useful and fun upgrades to theAppleMusic app too. Together they make Apple Music an even nicer place to spend time in, and they make it a lot easier to control too. Here’s what’s new.
1. A full-screen player on your Lock Screen
When youriPhoneis locked, the Lock Screen widget looks much like before but now shows what you’re connected to – for example yourAirPods ProorAirPods Max. In iOS 16, pressing on the widget expands it to become a full-screen player with a nice big view of the album art, transport controls and the more button for song and playlist options. And it works on rival apps too, because it’s an OS-level change rather than an app-specific one.
2. A better volume control
The volume control in Apple Music has always seemed unnecessarily small and fiddly, but now it’s been expanded so it’s the same size as the track progress bar – and it also swells and lights up when you adjust it. Together those changes make it much easier to control, enabling you to be a bit more nuanced than just moving from “can’t hear” to “bleeding ears”.
3. Playlist sorting
And there’s more…
In addition to the features detailed above, Apple Music now integrates very well with the Shazam music discovery app: now if you ask Siri for the name of a song that’s playing, it syncs with Shazam and its button in Control Center to make it easy for you to see a list of songs you’ve asked it to identify.
Another new feature might drive you as daft as it drove me: Personalised Spatial Audio forAirPods 3,AirPodsPro and AirPods Max. It uses your iPhone camera to take pictures of your ears to get a better personalised spatial audio effect, and while it works it’s an absolute pain in the neck – literally, because getting the camera position right when you can’t see the screen is nearly impossible and very frustrating. Get a hand mirror. You can thank me later.
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