Developers have been busy combing through the first iOS 9 beta for clues about upcoming Apple services, but in the lastest iOS 8.4 beta that was also seeded to developers earlier this week, the first signs of the Apple Music streaming service have started popping up (literally).
Some iOS 8.4 beta testers have received pop-up notifications in the old Music app. The introductory prompts reveal how Apple plans to get iOS users to sign up for the new service, either on an individual plan or family plan.
Here’s signup screen users will be greeted by:
Not all iOS 8.4 beta testers are seeing the prompts in the Music app, but MacRumors reports that when opening up the Music app, some users are prompted to start their free three month trial of Apple Music, even though the service won’t be available until June 30th.
Tapping on the Apple Music intro pop-up takes you to another screen that lets users select between the $10 per month individual plan or $15 per month family plan, but there’s no way to actually signup. Once you tap on a plan right now the option just grays out.
Apple announced at WWDC that the new Apple Music service will launch on June 30th in over 100 countries, providing full streaming access to the entire iTunes catalog, plus Beats 1 radio and Apple Connect. While Beats 1 and some aspects of Connect will be available to all users for free, streaming will only be available to paid subscribers. To see if Apple Music is launching in your country, check out our full map.
Via: Macrumors
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
6 responses to “This is how Apple will push Apple Music on every iOS user”
We will definitely try it for the first 3 months. We loved the paid version of Pandora but we dropped it after the price went up. ITunes Radio offered he exact same thing and since I was an ITunes Match subscriber, I already got the add free version. With the family sharing my wife will have the full version also and Apple music has unlimited skips. But if I have access to all the music anyway then who cares. Seems like a win win. Spotify must be terrible at advertising. I never knew what they offered until Apple music was announced. I like that the music is just part of my phone. instead of an app. plus seemless integration with Siri is a big plus. Just my $.02
Despite Drake and Iovine ruining the WWDC keynote, I’m going to give this a try, why not? I imagine it will be a bit buggy at first, after all, it’s streaming huge library of music that’s supposed to work across multiple devices in multiple languages. The enormous effort it takes to create something like this is not lost on me.
I have never ever ever ever wanted to have any advertising interrupt up my music experience, so $10 a month for access to the entire iTunes library sounds interesting.
I don’t think it will be that buggy. Apple has been offering streaming through iTunes for a few years now. And in my experiences I’ve hardly had any issues. I get more issues streaming through Spotify than I do on iTunes.
I get this pop up on iOS 9 as well.
More bloatware from Apple. As if we haven’t got enough crap Apple has on the iPhone taking up room that we could install the apps we want, not what Apple thinks we want. Takes me back to the early versions of windows when Microsoft load crap onto their OS, but a least we could delete it, but not on the iPhone.
Do we know what music quality will apple provide?
Will it provide different streaming quality as Spotify does?
Any rumor?