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Apple’s latest iOS 26 beta released yesterday, bringing several new features to Apple Music that have long been requested by users.
Apple says these new enhancements are designed to make music discovery, listening, and management of music more intuitive and enjoyable. It leverages both AI-driven innovation and offers some user-friendly design updates to keep things tidy in the app.
The standout new feature of iOS 26 is AutoMix, an AI-powered tool that dynamically blends songs together—much like a DJ during a live set. Unlike the traditional crossfade, which simply overlaps two tracks, AutoMix intelligently selects transition points and styles, creating a seamless and continuous listening experience.
Apple Music now allows users to pin their favorite songs, albums, or playlists to the top of their library for easy access. Have a playlist you always listen to while exercising in the morning? This feature is killer. The organizational upgrade helps streamline navigation to playlists frequently accessed—especially for users with extensive music collections. A new pinned widget for the Home Screen makes this content available at a glance and with just a single tap.
In other organizational features, iOS 26 brings the ability to create folders for playlists. Users can group playlists by mood, genre, or occasion—further organizing their massive playlist collection and reducing clutter.
As Digital Music News previously reported, Apple Music will offer lyrics translation for supported songs, displaying translations between each time-synced lyric line. This is especially useful for users who enjoy listening to music in many languages, whether you’re a K-pop stan or a Francophile. This feature can also help users learn to pronounce song lyrics correctly, enhancing the listening and learning experience.
The latest beta also introduces three new widgets for Apple Music. The previously mentioned Poins widget and a newly introduced Live radio widget. The Pins widget displays up to six pinned selections, while Live Radio widget offers one-tap access to Apple Music’s six 24/7 radio stations including Apple Music 1, Hits, Country, Música Uno, Club, and Chill.
If you’re not keen on installing a beta version of iOS 26 on your every day device, you can expect to see these new features sometime this fall.
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