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 favourite tracks and play them offline, lyrics in real time, listening across all your favourite devices, new music personalised 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) Students can choose the Apple?Music Student?Plan at ￡5.99 per month. (2) An individual monthly subscription is just ￡10.99 per month. (3) 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. (4) 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 from ￡18.95 per month.

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

• 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-gb/HT212182.

• 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 the data?perfectly. Apple?Music is making its entire catalogue 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 mobile data or Wi?Fi connections. Note that Hi-Res Lossless requires external equipment such as a USB digital to analogue converter.

  For a full list of compatible devices, please see support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212183.

• 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 catalogue 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 adverts?

  Apple?Music has zero?ads.

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

  New subscribers can get three 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 is different from contemporary genres. Works have multiple movements and tracks; famous pieces have hundreds of recordings with different orchestras, conductors and soloists. Apple?Music Classical is tailored to the needs of classical music lovers — with a unique approach to search, browse, library and recommendation features. Listeners can also dive deeper with background information about artists, composers and works.

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

  You can download the Apple?Music?Classical app from the App?Store or Google?Play. It’s available for iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS?15.4 or later, and for Android smart-phones with Android?6 (Marshmallow) or later.

  You’ll also need Apple?Music installed on the same device — it’s usually pre-installed on iPhone and iPad.

  Apple?Music?Classical is included with all Apple?Music plans at no extra charge — there’s no separate subscription. If you’re not yet an Apple?Music subscriber, it’s easy to sign up from Apple?Music or Apple?Music?Classical.

  Apple?Music?Classical has a shared library with Apple?Music, which means the classical tracks, albums and playlists added in either app are instantly available in the other. You can listen on all your devices and in the car with CarPlay — online or offline.

• Is classical music still available in Apple?Music?

  Yes, both apps offer the largest classical catalogue in the world. However, Apple?Music?Classical includes 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.