Playback Music

Rediscover your music.

Playback spins your Apple Music library on a dial and resurfaces the songs and playlists you'd forgotten you loved.

SONGS

An endless rotation drawn from your own library. A bespoke algorithm blends genre lineage, tempo, and sonic similarity to walk from one track to the next — prioritising the songs you've played most and those that have been in your library longest. Every queue is saved to History, so you can keep the playlists you love.

PLAYLISTS

You've got good taste; Playback brings it to the fore. The Playlists tab spins a dial through your Apple Music playlists and lands on one at random. Your collection, reshuffled, with none of the deciding.

DESIGN

Build a playlist by drawing its shape. Sketch an energy curve — from glacial calm up to full intensity — and Playback fills it with songs that rise and fall to match.

HANDS-FREE

Every mode answers to your voice. Ask Siri to make a playlist, design one by mood, play something at random, or save what's playing to your library. Tap a Control Center button to start the music without unlocking your phone. It all runs on Shortcuts, so you can wire Playback into routines of your own.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

No accounts. No tracking. No subscription. Your music library stays on your device, between you and Apple Music.

Playback requires an Apple Music subscription.