MUSIC and MORE
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In the new-look Music app, tap Library to browse your collection, including playlists. At the top of this page are ways to browse, such as by artist, album, or song title. Tap Edit to add videos, genres, compilations, and composers, or to turn off anything you don’t need. Drag on the grips to the right to reorder these items, then tap Done.
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Downloaded Music is now a view in its own right, rather than a switch you can toggle. When you select it from your library options, you can browse your music as normal, except you only see what’s been downloaded. As in iOS 9, it adds a bar to the top of the screen as a reminder you’re not seeing everything from the Apple Music library. No matter how deep you’ve gone into this view, tap Library to see all your music – not just what’s downloaded to the device.
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To see tracks coming up after the current one, tap the MiniPlayer’s bar at the bottom of the screen, then swipe upwards on the expanded MiniPlayer.
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You also need to swipe up on the expanded MiniPlayer to access shuffle and repeat controls. If the items in the queue are the contents of an album or playlist, enabling shuffle has an immediate visible effect on their order.
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The queue no longer scrolls back in time; tap For You, where the top row of items shows albums from which you’ve played tracks, just not the exact ones. Tap See All for a longer history.
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The Music app now works with Split View on supported iPads – handy if you want to check out an artist’s output while reading about them, for example.
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To prevent iOS removing music from your device’s storage to make room for other stuff, go to Settings > Music > Downloads > Optimize Storage and pick the minimum amount to keep. This only appears if iCloud Music Library is enabled.
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The adjacent Automatic Downloads switch differs from the one in Settings > iTunes & App Store; whereas the latter downloads iTunes Store tracks no matter the device you bought them on, this one downloads tracks added to your iCloud Music Library even if they were imported from a CD or another store on your Mac. Ensure iCloud Music Library is enabled on all relevant devices for this to work.