Apple Music for Android Gets 3 New Features Ahead of iOS 16 Launch

Three new features due in the Apple Music app for Android before the launch of iOS 16 include new music notifications from your favorite artists.

• What is happening? Android users will soon be able to favorite artists on Apple Music and see their favorites on Listen Now. As if that wasn’t enough, the updated app will provide music notifications from your favorite artists.
• Why care? Apple Music for Android is missing some of the features available in the Music app on iOS 16. This upcoming update will bring feature parity.
• What to do? The new features are currently available in the beta version of Apple Music for Android. People who don’t have it will have to wait until an update to the public version of the app is available on the Google Play store.

3 new features in Apple Music for Android

According to 9to5Google, the app highlights the following new features:

• Introducing Favorites: Get better recommendations when you favorite artists you care about.
• Your Favorites in Listen Now: Revisit the artists you love in a new Listen Now row.
• New Music Updates: Stay up to date with new music notifications from your favorite artists.

As mentioned, version 4.0 of the Android app is currently in testing. It should be rolling out to all users by the time Apple releases the iOS 16 mass update.

Links to “Apple Classical”found

The site notes that there is now an asterisk in the upper right corner of artist pages. A tap on the icon allows you to add an artist to your favorites to keep up to date with their upcoming new releases. Any artists you love will appear on a new line in Listen Now.

Adding to favorites will affect the Apple Music algorithm and improve recommendations.

Other improvements include sorting the songs in the playlist by order, title, artist, album, or release date. References to “Apple Classical”continue to appear in lines of code, but Apple has yet to release its rumored classical music app based on the Primephonic acquisition.