Use Apple Music in the Music app

With your Apple Music membership, you can access more than 30 million songs, live radio, and music recommendations, all in the Music app.

     

When you first open the Music app after you update to iOS 8.4, you see the option to start a free, three-month trial of Apple Music.* When you join Apple Music, you get a whole world of music—all of our 30 million songs and all of your songs—in one library, delivered to all of your devices. 

You can find all of your music in the My Music tab. The For You tab has music that's handpicked by experts just for you, and the New tab shows you all of the latest hits. From the Radio tab, you can listen to Beats 1, our first 24/7 worldwide radio station, and Apple Music's on-demand stations. And you can get content directly from your favorite artists in Connect.

With your Apple Music membership, you can add songs from Apple's catalog to your library, and download them to listen to offline.

Apple Music features vary by country.

My Music & Playlists

The My Music tab makes it easy to navigate all of your music, wherever it comes from—from the iTunes Store, from a rare import CD, or from your Apple Music membership. Every time that you add a song, album, or playlist, we keep it at the top of My Music in Recently Added. Tap the category selector below Recently Added to sort and view your music by Artists, Albums, Songs, Music Videos, Genres, Composers, and Compilations.

Play your music

     

When you play a song, you see the Miniplayer at the bottom of the screen. You can keep browsing other titles to find the perfect next song.

Or you can tap or swipe up on the Miniplayer to see the Now Playing screen and controls. Tap the   in the upper-left corner or swipe down to close the Now Playing screen.
 

If you want to listen to an artist's entire collection of music that you've saved to your library, find the artist in My Music. To the right of the artist's name, tap  , then tap Add to Up Next. If you want to listen to all of an artist's songs even if you don't have their music in your library, ask Siri to play all of their songs.

Use Siri

With iOS 8.4, Siri takes your music requests. You can ask Siri at any time to “play the top songs from 2015” or “play more songs like this.” You can even ask Siri to “add the new Blur album to my library." 

Ask Siri to "play all songs by Pharrell Williams" to listen to all of Pharrell's music, even if it's not in your library, or "play my music by Drake" to listen to Drake's songs that you have saved to your library. You can also ask Siri to shuffle the songs in an album or playlist while you're listening to it.

Create a playlist

You can create playlists to listen to or share with friends. If you don't see a Playlists tab, tap My Music, then tap Playlists at the top of the screen.

Under All Playlists, tap New at the right of the screen, above the list of playlists. Fill in details for your playlist, such as the title and description, then add songs. If you like, you can also add an image. When you're happy with your playlist, tap Done in the upper-right corner.

Share your music

Tap   to share a link to a song or playlist that you love. You can share it to Facebook or Twitter, send in Mail or Messages, or copy the link.

Also on the Now Playing screen, you can rewind, pause, or fast forward a song, control the volume, and more.

Tap     to show your Up Next queue, which shows you all of the songs that you’ve selected for playback.

 

Drag songs with   to rearrange the order, or swipe left to remove a song that you’d like to skip.

 

Shuffle or repeat your music

Tap   at the bottom of the Now Playing screen to shuffle the songs in a playlist or album. You can also ask Siri to shuffle your music.

Tap   once to play an entire playlist or album on repeat or twice to repeat one song.

     

Listen offline

You can download songs—including songs that you bought from the iTunes Store, added from Apple Music, or that were matched or uploaded with Apple Music or iTunes Match—to your device to listen to when you're not connected to the Internet:

  1. Tap the More Options icon  more options next to the item.
  2. Tap the download icon  to the right of the song's artwork at the top of the More Options menu, or tap Download from the bottom of the menu.
  3. The song downloads to your device.

To see music that you downloaded to listen to offline, go to My Music. Under the Recently Added section, tap the category selector (Artists, Albums, etc.). Only Downloaded Music is at the bottom of the category list. When this setting is on, My Music shows only songs that you downloaded to your device. Turn this setting off to see all of your music, including music stored in iCloud Music Library.

When you view an item that you've downloaded to your device, you'll see an offline icon offline indicator near it, but its exact location varies. For example:

  • If you download an entire album or playlist, the offline icon appears when you're looking at the album or playlist in My Music. You'll also see an offline icon when you view a compilation, but not when you view specific genres, artists, or composers.
  • If you download a song, the offline icon appears to the right of each song title.
  • If you download songs from an album, but not the entire album, the offline icon appears to the right of just the songs that you downloaded.

     

For You

In the For You tab, you can see music and playlists that are handpicked just for you by our experts. Tap the artwork to view more details about the item as well as full song listings. Learn how to add these songs and playlists to your library. 

Our editors give you playlist and album suggestions multiple times a day. You can pull down on the list to refresh your suggestions. If you want to see something different, you can refine your suggestions at any time.

     

New

Apple Music is dedicated to bringing you the latest and greatest in music. The New tab features music that's new, popular, and up-and-coming each week.

You can also browse handcrafted playlists from our passionate team of music editors and industry partners. Tap on Apple Music Editors to browse by genre editor, Activities to browse by popular activity, or Curators to browse by industry names you’re sure to recognize. 

And you can add any of these songs and playlists to your library, too.

     

Apple Music Radio

Apple Music Radio is a worldwide listening experience. Learn more about Apple Music Radio, which includes Beats 1, our first 24/7 worldwide radio station.

     

Connect

Keep up with your favorite artists in the Connect tab, where you can find videos, photos, music, and messages from artists that you follow. 

Search for or tap an artist to open their artist page, and then tap Follow. When you follow an artist, any new posts that they make are automatically added to your feed on the Connect tab. You can follow an artist even if you don’t have their music in your library. 

You can Love posts, write comments to the artist, and see what other fans have to say. You can also share an artist’s post with your friends through social media. Just tap   .

To see the artists that you follow, tap your profile icon in the upper-left corner, and then tap Following. Tap Unfollow to the right of an artist to stop following them. To stop automatically following artists when you add their songs to your music library, turn off Automatically Follow Artists.

Search

Tap the search icon in the upper-right corner to search the Apple Music catalog and see trending searches. You can also use Search to find artists, albums, or songs from which you can create a custom Apple Music Radio station.
 

*Requires initial sign-up. At the end of the trial period, the membership will automatically renew and payment method will be charged on a monthly basis until autorenewal is turned off in account settings.
 

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