Apple Music’s iOS 17 Update Introduces Shared Playlists and Crossfading

It took a while, but with iOS 17, shared playlists are finally coming to Apple Music.
Yup, the feature that many Spotify users have been complaining about hasn’t been on Apple Music is coming later this year with an iOS 17 update.

With shared playlists, the friends you’ve invited to the list can add, remove, and change the order of songs in the same playlist. You can also react with an emoji to songs when they are played. With shared playlists, Apple ticks off one of the most requested features in the music service, so it felt good that it finally arrived.

With the new iOS, we also get another long-awaited feature, namely crossfading between tracks. In this way, all the music flows into each other without any silence between the songs and instead the playback becomes one long mix. Long awaited.

Another feature of iOS 17 is that we can now launch songs and playlists directly from the Music widget on the home screen. Before, you only opened the music app when you clicked on the music widget, but now they have got more functions directly in the widget itself.

Together with lossless and spatial sound in Dolby Atmos, in-depth artist interviews and radio stations, the karaoke function Apple Music Sing and live shows with world artists, Apple Music already has a big lead over competitor Spotify. Now it feels like they are running laps around Spotify just by unchecking the feature with shared playlists.
Is it time for you to switch too?