Music

How to see and stop apps from accessing your Apple Music data

Apps with access to your Apple Music

You can grant third-party apps and services access to your Apple Music for various reasons. For instance, you might allow Alexa access so you can play Apple Music on your Amazon smart speaker. But if there comes a time when you want to revoke access to an app or service for privacy or security reasons, you can do that easily by following the steps here.

Audicy is a full-fledged media importer for jailbroken iPhones

Those who’ve been with the jailbreak community for a while may remember the times when it was easy to download a third-party app from Cydia to import locally-stored media to iOS’ native Music player, etc. Years later, finding such utilities isn’t so common.

The aforementioned circumstances make the release of a new utility called Audicy by iOS developer Jalal Ouraigua rather significant, as it enables users to easily import media stored on the device itself to iOS’ native Music library from the native user interface(s).

How to use the Visualizer and enjoy a light show in the Music app or iTunes on Mac

Visualizer in the Music app on Mac

If you’re done working on your Mac for the day or simply taking a break but still have your favorite tunes playing, why not add a little pizzazz to the screen? The Music app on Mac offers a cool tool called Visualizer.

Visualizer is a light show that plays along with your music. You can adjust it to your liking and then just sit back and watch the colors and lights bounce off your screen. Never used the Music app Visualizer before? That’s why we’re here, to show you how to enjoy a light show with your songs!

Fluide adds music controls to the iOS 13 volume HUD

The iPhone features a market-leading music consumption experience, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. The jailbreak community knows this all too well, and that’s why many jailbreak tweaks focus on iOS’ music-centric interfaces.

A newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Fluide by iOS developer maximehip is just one example of such an augmentation, and as depicted in the screenshot example above, this tweak integrates music controls directly into iOS 13’s native volume HUD interface.

YouTube Music for iOS launches song lyrics

Just a day after Apple brought the real-time Apple Music lyrics feature from iOS to macOS via the macOS Catalina 10.15.4 update, which released yesterday, Google has now added a similar lyrics feature of its own to its official YouTube Music app for iPhone and iPad.