Apple Music App for Android Gains Android Auto Support, Search by Lyrics and More - MacRumors
Skip to Content

Apple Music App for Android Gains Android Auto Support, Search by Lyrics and More

by

applemusicandroidappFollowing the release of iOS 12, which brought a few new Apple Music features, Apple has updated its Apple Music app for Android to introduce feature parity.

Today's update brings support for searching by lyrics, an iOS 12 feature that's designed to let you locate songs and artists using song lyrics rather than a song name.

To use the feature, all you need to do is type in a sentence from the lyrics of a particular song and Apple Music will try to find it. This doesn't work with all songs, but it does work with those that offer lyrics in the Apple Music app.

Apple Music for Android is also gaining the new Artist Pages that were introduced in iOS 12, allowing an artist's music to be played with a single tap, and there's support for the Friends Mix.

Friends Mix is a playlist of songs gathered from the people that you're following on Apple Music. Android users can also discover new music through the inclusion of a new Top 100 list that offers up the daily top 100 songs from countries around the world.

After installing the 2.6.0 update, Android users will also be able to use Apple Music with Android Auto for the first time thanks to new Android Auto support.

Android users can download the Apple Music app from the Google Play store.

Top Rated Comments

102 months ago
I am still waiting for the headline ‘Apple Music releases full fledged webplayer, finally a good music streaming on 91 percent for all the desktop users out there’
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
102 months ago
I do. Handy for accessing my music purchases from my old Ipod touch from back in the day and I subscribe for the music service too.
I do as well. I do have MBP, iPhone and iPad, but I also have Google Pixel 2 XL. So for syncing purposes, plus given the fact that Apple has more tracks in their store compared to competition such as Google Play Music, Amazon, Spotify, etc. I think there would be a few takers, even among those who may want nothing to do with Apple hardware of their other products.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Dj64Mk7 Avatar
102 months ago
I know Apple would never release it but I’d love to know how many Android users subscribe to Apple Music.
Count One!
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Infinite Vortex Avatar
102 months ago
I know Apple would never release it but I’d love to know how many Android users subscribe to Apple Music.
Count in another one.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Delgibbons Avatar
102 months ago
Is that a joke?

Have you used it on Windows? It is terrrrrrible. I have a beefy gaming PC and a development laptop for work and everything laaaaaaags. Even quickly browsing or searching for a song takes like 20 while on Spotify, YouTube music, Deezer takes one. The font aliasing is horrible on a 4K screen with 125 percent magnification.

I tried creating a new smaller library and same issues. The features like iCloud Library and management are best in class. Only the UI and performance is horrible and unreliable on PC.

Also I still don’t get why Apple didn’t mimic Spotify Connect to contine playing or send audio to other devices while literally every other app has handoff
[doublepost=1537423668][/doublepost]
I have all the same issues.

I need iCloud library since I listen to a lot of soundtracks that are not all on streaming. The day YouTube music ports over their 50 000 song locker I might switch over. Spotify is great but their handling of local music is terrible.

I can live with the fact that I need to upload music with iTunes, but just give us a super responsive web app for music. Oh and a super responsive webmail, drive and photo site too because icloud.com performs as good as iTunes...
Itunes is a bloated horrific experience....
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Phil A. Avatar
102 months ago
I know Apple would never release it but I’d love to know how many Android users subscribe to Apple Music.
The play store shows 10 million downloads so somewhere between zero and 10 million active subscribers would be a start, but that still doesn't tell the whole story as there will be some users (such as myself) who use it both on iOS and Android.

I did have a brief flirtation back with Spotify but for all it's faults I still feel Apple Music is the best streaming music service so I went back to it. If it wasn't available on Android, I'd probably go back to Spotify (somewhat reluctantly) so I could use the same service on all my devices

And having said all that, I'd guess it's towards the upper end of that range as Apple apparently see value in continuing development for Android.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Popular Stories

Google Logo Feature Slack

Google and Epic Abandon Injunction Modification Request, Clearing the Way for Rival Android App Stores

Wednesday July 15, 2026 5:02 pm PDT by
Google and Epic Games this week withdrew their joint motion to modify an injunction requiring Google to support third-party app stores in Google Play. The two companies abandoned the request after it became clear the court was unlikely to allow it. Google is now bound by a permanent injunction issued in October 2024 requiring it to allow alternative app stores on Android devices. In a court...
gemini for mac app google

EU Orders Google to Give Rival AI Apps the Same Android Access as Gemini

Thursday July 16, 2026 3:45 pm PDT by
The European Commission today formally ordered Google to give third-party AI services the same access to Android device features that Gemini has. Europe's Digital Markets Act requires software makers like Apple and Google to grant equal interoperability to third-party apps and services, and the EC is enforcing it. DMA interoperability rules are why Siri AI won't be available in the European...
iphone 17 pro silver

iPhone Loyalty Rate Climbs to 87% as Switching to Android Slows

Friday July 17, 2026 9:02 am PDT by
iPhone owners are sticking with the platform at a higher rate than a year ago, with new research firm CIRP putting iPhone loyalty at 87% for the first quarter of 2026. CIRP's latest quarterly survey found that just 12% of new iPhone buyers in the March quarter had come over from an Android phone, with the remaining 1% arriving from a feature phone, a different smartphone platform, or buying...