- Apple has launched a brand new Xbox app for its Apple Music streaming service.
- The Xbox app brings long-awaited help for the service to Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X, and Sequence S, with background playback, amongst different options.
A brand new Apple Music app has appeared on Xbox consoles, increasing the music-streaming service to Microsoft’s gaming platform. As soon as a long-standing holdout, Apple Music has quietly appeared on the console’s retailer with native Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X, and Sequence S help.
The Apple Music app for Xbox mirrors comparable experiences on different recreation consoles and good TVs, scaling up the service for the massive display screen. The app hooks into the music subscription with playback throughout the whole library, together with help for movies, radio, and different signatures of the service. The app, most crucially, helps background playback, permitting customers to take heed to music whereas gaming.
The brand new app addresses Apple Music’s absence on Xbox, which beforehand barred subscribers from accessing the service on the consoles. Regardless of comparable PlayStation and good TV apps, Xbox house owners needed to resort to workarounds involving third-party software program. Apple Music marks the final main music-streaming service to hit the Xbox retailer, becoming a member of Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pandora.
The Apple Music app could be grabbed by way of the Xbox retailer (opens in new tab), prompting customers to sign up by way of an Apple ID. Whereas current customers will obtain their whole music library on Xbox, Apple additionally provides a one-month free trial for these new to the service.
