Can you see who listens to your Music on Apple Music

See what friends are listening to in Apple Music on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Android device

If you subscribe to Apple Music, you can create a profile so your friends can see what you're listening to. And you can see what your friends are listening to.

• Create a profile

• Manage what you share

• Find and follow friends

• Report a concern

1. Listen on any device, anywhere

Although initially only available on devices running iOS, Apple Music apps are now installed by default on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and can be added to Android, Windows, PlayStation 5, Sonos, and Amazon Echo devices. If you don’t have access to any of those, you can also stream the service through a browser using the web interface at music.apple.com.

2. Listen to the radio

You’ll find a Radio icon at the bottom of the screen in the Apple Music mobile app and in the sidebar on your computer. Tap or click it to listen to Apple Music 1, which plays a mixture of music from the 80s, 90s and 2000s, or one of two new stations – Apple Music Hits, and Apple Music Country.

Apple Music 1 broadcasts from studios in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville and London, and counts Zane Lowe and Elton John among its line-up of presenters. Although you don’t need to subscribe to Apple Music to listen to Apple’s own radio stations, signing up to the service lets you listen to any show that’s already aired whenever you like.

But it's not only Apple’s own station you can listen to on the app. To listen to broadcast radio, including your local stations, scroll down and click See All in the Local Broadcasters section. If you don’t see your preferred station right away, go to Search and type the station's name to listen live.

10 Apple Music Tips and Tricks you Might Not Know About

If you favour the iOS streaming service over any other available, we’ve got a few tips and tricks for you to help you get the most out of Apple Music.

Not too long ago we uploaded a blog covering some nifty tricks to help you get the most out ofSpotify. Don’t worry Apple Music lovers, this time we’re looking at some tips and tricks especially for you. Here are a few features you might not be using!

Edit the ‘For You’ section

The ‘For You’ function is a great way to discover new music, displaying your ‘New Music Mix’ playlist and anything else you’ve recently been listening to.Howeverif ithasn’t been working that effectively, there’s a simple way to change it. In the For You tab, tap your profile icon in the top right corner, you should then see the ‘Find More Artists and Curators’ tab. From here you can select artists and genres at your own leisure!

Love and Dislike

Another way of helping Apple Music understand your music tastes is by marking songs, albums and playlists with either ‘Love’ or ‘Dislike’ tags. To do this tap the three dots icon and mark them accordingly. Apple Music will learn from your decisions and use this to shape future recommendations.

Custom Alarms

Exhausted all the sounds built into the clock app?Wellusing Apple Music you can choose any song from the service and use it as your alarm ringtone. On your device head to the Clock app, then to the alarm tab and tap edit to select which alarm you want to change. Tap sound and choose your song from your Apple Music library. Remember you’ll need to have added the song to your music library to use it.

Bringing Back the Stars

So the aforementioned Love and Dislike method of rating replaced the Star rating that existed before it.Howeverif you prefer this method there is a way to get it back. Head to your settings, then music and enable ‘Show Star Ratings’ if this is the rating system that you prefer.

OptimiseStorage Space

If you’re constantly seeing the ‘Storage Almost Full’ window pop up on your device, Apple Music has a clever way of helping you manage your downloaded music. Once again, head to your settings and then to music. Tap the ‘OptimiseStorage’ option and turn it on. From here you can set a minimum storage amount for your music on that device, so if you exceed this amount Apple Music will delete songs that you haven’t listened to recently.

3D Touch for Menus

As with most Apple apps and menus, the UI is clean andminimalistic, so even simple features are tucked away out of plain sight. Use 3D touch (iPhone 6s or later) by pressing firmly on a playlist or artist to bring up quick actions. From here you can view lyrics, queue the song, download it and much more!

iCloudMusic Library

An extra that comes with an Apple Music paidsubscriptionis theiCloudMusic Library, which lets you store up to 100,000 tracks in the cloud, separate from your regulariCloudstorage capacity. Anything you store in there gives you access to your saved music on up to 10 devices, both from Apple Music and your own library you might have stored on a Mac computer. This way you can have the best of both worlds!

Built-inEqualiser

Just like we mentioned in ourSpotifytips blog, there’s a built-inequaliserfor Apple Music to enhance musical performance based on the genre of music. There are 23 presets laid out based on different genres including jazz,hip hopand classical, with even more options for boosting bass. Bear in mind that you’ll need to dip back into the settings and change theequalisationmanually if you listen to a different genre.

UsingSiri

The benefit of using the Apple streaming service on an iOS device is that it works effortlessly withSiri. If you’re already using the tool, it’s worth using Apple Music with her too asSiriwill act as your personal DJ! Ask her to ‘play myhip hopplaylist’ or to play ‘BiffyClyro’ for example and consider it done. You can even ask to play morein depthrequests like ‘play the top songs from 1993’ or to ‘like this’ so you can come back to a song you’ve just heard later. There are plenty of commands to check out so give it a Google!

Know any more hidden tricks for Apple Music we haven’t mentioned? Make sure you share them in the comments below!

Apple Music's Standout Features

As of June 2021, Apple Music supports Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio, two features that are being provided to Apple Music subscribers at no additional cost. Both of these features significantly improve the Apple Music listening experience.

Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos

Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos provides an immersive, multi-dimensional audio experience that allows artists to mix music in a way that makes it sound like the notes are coming from all around you. Apple previously had a Spatial Audio feature available for television content, and now it has also expanded to Apple Music audio content.

Apple Music automatically plays Dolby Atmos tracks on all AirPods and Beats headphones with an H1 or W1 chip, as do the built-in speakers of the newest iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Support for Spatial Audio is also available in the Apple Music app for Android.

Apple plans to add new Dolby Atmos tracks on a regular basis, offers up a curated selection of Dolby Atmos playlists. At launch, there were thousands of Spatial Audio songs available across a wide range of genres. Apple is working with Dolby to make it easy for musicians, producers, and mix engineers to create songs in Dolby Atmos.

• Apple Music: How to Enable Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio

Lossless Audio

Apple in June 2021 upgraded its entire music catalog to Lossless Audio with the ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) that preserves the details in the original audio file. Apple Music subscribers will be able to hear songs exactly as the artists recorded them in the studio.

At launch, 20 million songs supported the codec, with all 75 million Apple Music songs to available in Lossless Audio by the end of 2021.

The standard Lossless tier starts at CD quality, which is 16-bit at 44.1 kHz, and it goes up to 24 bit at 48 kHz. There's also a Hi-Res Lossless tier available at 24 bit 192 kHz, but Hi-Res Lossless requires an external digital-to-analog converter (DAC).

The AirPods, AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max do not support lossless audio. Apple says that lossless audio can be listened to using the latest Apple Music app on an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV. Support for lossless audio on the HomePod and HomePod mini will be added in a future update.