Apple Music

Questions? Answers.

• What is Apple?Music? Is it the same as?iTunes?

  Apple?Music is a streaming service that allows you to listen to over 100 million songs. Its features include the ability to download your favorite tracks and play them offline, lyrics in real time, listening across all your favorite devices, new music personalized just for you, curated playlists from our editors, and much more. All this in addition to exclusive and original content.

  Your iTunes library is still yours. You can access your entire collection from Apple?Music or from iTunes for macOS or Windows.

• How can I listen to Apple?Music?

  Apple?Music is already on your iPhone, iPad, Apple?Watch, Apple?TV 4K, Mac, and HomePod speakers — and you can listen with CarPlay or online at music.apple.com. Apple?Music is also available on Windows and Android devices, Sonos speakers, Amazon?Echo, Google?Nest, smart TVs, and more.

• What does Apple Music cost?

  That all depends on which offer you choose. (1) The Apple Music Voice Plan is $4.99 per month after your free trial. (2) Students can choose the Apple?Music Student Plan at $5.99 per month. (3) An individual monthly subscription is just $10.99 per month after your free trial. (4) The Apple?Music Family Plan, which allows you to share your account with up to five people and gives each member a personal account, is just $16.99 per month. (5) The Apple?Music Individual Plan and the Apple?Music Family Plan are also included in Apple?One, which bundles up to five other Apple services into a single monthly subscription. Apple?One plans start at $16.95 per?month.

  Apple Music Classical is included with Apple Music Student, Individual, and Family Plans.

• What is the Apple?Music Voice Plan and how can I listen?

  The Apple?Music?Voice?Plan is a streaming service designed for use with Siri that allows you to access more than 100 million songs with just your voice.⁷ Request any song, album, artist, or playlist simply by asking. You also get personalized stations for any mood or activity, listening across all your favorite devices, curated playlists from our editors, new ways to use Siri with Apple?Music that are personalized for you, exclusive and original content, and?more.

  Getting started with the Apple?Music?Voice?Plan is easy — simply ask Siri to play some music. You can subscribe within the app, and listen just by making a voice request on any Siri-enabled?device.

• Is there an Apple?Music student subscription?

  Students get the same Apple?Music features and benefits as individual members. Once your student status with your college or university is verified, you get student membership pricing for up to four years, as long as you remain a student. After four years, your membership will continue at the individual member price.

• Does Siri work with all plans?

  Yes. With a Siri-enabled device and any Apple?Music plan, you can enjoy all the features of Apple?Music and Siri. All plans also support Type?to?Siri.

• What is Dolby Atmos music and how can I listen to it?

  Dolby Atmos is an audio technology that creates an immersive listening experience in which sound comes from all around you.

  Apple?Music subscribers using the latest version of Apple?Music on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple?TV?4K can listen to thousands of Dolby Atmos music tracks using any headphones. When you listen with compatible Apple or Beats headphones or most Bluetooth headphones, Dolby Atmos music plays back automatically when available for a song. For other headphones, go to Settings > Music > Audio and set Dolby Atmos to Always On. You can also hear Dolby Atmos music using the built?in speakers on a compatible iPhone, iPad, MacBook?Pro, MacBook?Air, or iMac, or by connecting your Apple?TV?4K to one of the following: HomePod speakers set up as the default speakers, a Dolby Atmos–compatible sound bar, a Dolby Atmos–enabled AV receiver, or a television that supports Dolby Atmos audio. For the full list of compatible devices, please see support.apple.com/en-us/HT212182. Dolby Atmos is not available with the Apple?Music Voice Plan.

• What is lossless?audio and how can I listen to it?

  Lossless audio compression reduces the original file size of a song while preserving all of the data perfectly. Apple?Music is making its entire catalog of more than 100 million songs available in lossless audio at different resolutions. In Apple?Music, “Lossless” refers to lossless audio up to 48kHz, and “Hi-Res Lossless” refers to lossless audio from 48kHz to 192kHz. Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless files are very large and use much more bandwidth and storage space than standard AAC files.

  You can listen to lossless audio using the latest Apple?Music app on an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple?TV 4K. Turn on lossless audio in Settings > Music > Audio Quality. You can choose between Lossless and Hi-Res Lossless for cellular or Wi-Fi connections. Note that Hi-Res Lossless requires external equipment such as a USB digital to analog?converter.

  For a full list of compatible devices, please see support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183. Lossless audio is not available with the Apple?Music?Voice?Plan.

• Can I share with my family?

  Yes. With an Apple?Music Family Plan, up to six people in the family can enjoy all the features and the full catalog of Apple?Music. To get started, just set up Family?Sharing on your iOS or iPadOS device, Android phone, or Mac and invite family members to join.

• Are there commercials?

  Apple?Music has zero ads.

• Am I eligible for a six-month Apple?Music free offer? How do I redeem?it?

  New subscribers can get six months of Apple?Music free with an eligible audio device. Make sure your iPhone or iPad is running the latest version of iOS or iPadOS. Then you can activate your Apple?Music trial after you pair your audio device to your iPhone or iPad. You’ll have three months to redeem the offer after the first activation of the eligible?device.^?

• What is Apple Music Classical?

  Apple Music Classical is a companion app for Apple Music subscribers. Included with Apple Music plans for Individual, Family, and Student subscribers as well as Apple One, at no additional cost, Apple Music Classical is a dedicated classical music service designed by and for all types of classical music listeners. Classical music experts will delight in the largest collection of its kind, excellent search capability, and the high-quality audio that classical music deserves. If you’re new to the genre, you can discover classical music through curated playlists, intuitive browsing, and detailed descriptions of works.

• Why a separate app for classical music?

  Classical music has a fundamentally different metadata structure from that of genres like pop, hip-hop, and country. As a result, it requires a unique approach to search, browse, library, and recommendations features. In addition, presenting the data about each album requires completely different formats. Classical listeners also have specific interests, such as composer bios and descriptions of works.

  Already a classical music enthusiast and Apple Music subscriber? All the classical music in your Apple Music library will automatically appear in the Favorites tab of Apple Music Classical, ready for you to enjoy.

• How do I get Apple Music Classical and where can I listen to it?

  You can download Apple Music Classical from the App Store or Google Play. If you have an Apple Music Student, Individual, or Family Plan, you can start using Apple Music Classical right away at no additional cost.

  If you have not yet subscribed to Apple Music, it’s easy to sign up once you open Apple Music Classical. After subscribing to Apple Music, you’ll be able to enjoy Apple Music Classical as well.

  Apple Music Classical is available for all iPhone models with iOS 15.4 or later. The Apple Music Classical app is not yet supported on CarPlay, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, or HomePod. However, Apple Music Classical has a unified library with Apple Music, which means that any track, album, or playlist you favorite or “star” in Apple Music Classical will automatically appear in your Apple Music library. You can listen to music you favorite in Apple Music Classical on each of your devices through the Apple Music library tab, where all of your Apple Music content is available to listen to, online and offline.

• Will classical music still be available in Apple Music?

  Yes, both apps will offer the largest classical catalog in the world. However, Apple Music Classical will include multiple additional features, such as classical browse, a search engine designed for classical music, handpicked recommendations, composer and artist bios, and descriptions of the works.

• Does Apple Music Classical also offer other genres?

  No, Apple Music Classical is classical only, but it does include lots of film and other crossover genres with classical music. Apple Music Classical users can also listen to more than 100 million songs on Apple Music through their subscription.