Service overview
Apple Music is a streaming service presented on apple.com under the heading "For the love of music". It offers ad-free listening online and offline, combining high audio quality with immersive Spatial Audio. The service also gives subscribers access to artist interviews, exclusive performances and tour dates.
- Ad-free streaming
- Available online and offline
- Highest audio quality plus Spatial Audio
- Artist interviews and exclusive performances
- Tour dates near the listener
Listening experience
Apple Music pairs Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos and AutoMix, which creates transitions using beat matching and time stretching. Lossless audio preserves the detail of the original recordings. Music Haptics adds taps, textures and vibrations when listening on iPhone.
- Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos
- AutoMix with beat matching and time stretching
- Lossless audio
- Music Haptics on iPhone
Discovery, radio and Apple Music Sing
Subscribers can explore genres and receive personalised artist and album suggestions based on listening history, and Playlist Playground creates instant playlists from a song or mood. Concerts Near You surfaces upcoming tour dates, while Apple Music Live carries interviews and performances alongside local, global and artist-led radio stations. Apple Music Sing provides real-time animated lyrics, translations with pronunciations, adjustable vocals and a Duet view showing vocalists' verses on opposite sides of the screen. Apple Music Radio can be listened to for free.
- Personalised artist and album recommendations
- Playlist Playground for instant playlists
- Concerts Near You tour dates
- Apple Music Live interviews and performances
- Apple Music Sing with real-time lyrics and adjustable vocals
Plans and offers
Apple Music is offered on several plans, described on its product page. A limited-time offer gives new subscribers three months of the Individual plan for $1.99, and the Family Plan for $4.99 over three months, shared with up to five people. Students get one month of Apple Music free at $6.99 per month, plus access to Apple TV, and buyers of an eligible new device can start with three months free. Apple lists the standalone Apple Music price as $11.99 per month individually and $19.99 per month for the family tier within its Apple One price breakdown.
- Individual: 3 months for $1.99 for new subscribers
- Family: 3 months for $4.99, shared with up to five people
- Student: $6.99 per month, first month free, includes Apple TV access
- New device purchase: 3 months free
- Apple Music listed at $11.99/mo individually in the Apple One breakdown
Devices and access
Apple Music is listed as available across Apple hardware and in the car. The product page names iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, HomePod, Apple TV 4K and CarPlay, with a link to find compatible vehicles. Buyers of AirPods Pro 3 are offered three months of Apple Music free. Apple Pay is also cited as a way to subscribe to Apple Music.
- iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac
- Apple Vision Pro, HomePod, Apple TV 4K
- CarPlay, with compatible vehicle listings
- 3 months free with AirPods purchase
Apple Music in Apple One
Apple Music is one of the subscriptions bundled in Apple One, which combines up to six Apple services for a single monthly price. Within Apple One, Apple Music is described as streaming or downloading more than 100 million songs and 30,000 playlists, with Spatial Audio, live Apple Music Radio and a classical music catalogue, all ad-free. The Individual, Family and Premier tiers all include Apple Music alongside iCloud+, Apple TV and Apple Arcade, and the Family and Premier plans allow up to five other people to join.
- Included in Apple One Individual, Family and Premier
- More than 100 million songs and 30,000 playlists
- Family and Premier plans can be shared with five others
- Bundled with iCloud+, Apple TV and Apple Arcade
Where to find it
The service has its own page on apple.com at apple.com/apple-music, which carries subscription offers and answers to common questions such as what Apple Music is, how to listen and what it costs. Apple's site map lists Apple Music among the company's services and applications. Apple Music subscriptions can also be connected within Apple Podcasts to bring premium audio content together in one place.
- Product page: apple.com/apple-music
- Listed in the apple.com site map
- Subscriptions connectable within Apple Podcasts
Sources
Last verified 16 Aug 2026. This entry is compiled from the public web pages listed above. Nothing here is stated that those pages do not, and each of them was read on the date shown.