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Apple Music Classical Updated With CarPlay and Siri Support

Apple Music Classical was updated today with CarPlay and Siri support, as well as stability and performance improvements, according to Apple.

Apple Music Classical Carplay Feature 2 1
CarPlay support was briefly added to a previous version of Apple Music Classical earlier this year, but it was removed just hours later. Starting with version 2.1 today, the app is once again available on CarPlay, as shown in our screenshot below.

CarPlay support provides Apple Music Classical listeners with access to their playlists, library, recommendations, and more on their vehicle's infotainment display. And with Siri on iOS 18.1 and later, users can also search via CarPlay for composers, artists, works, and instruments in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch, according to Apple. Additional languages will follow over time.

Apple Music Classical on CarPlay
Apple Music Classical first launched in March 2023, offering users with a standard Apple Music subscription access to over five million classical music tracks at no additional cost. The streaming app features advanced search functionality, exclusive artwork, extensive metadata, curated listening recommendations, and more.

The app is available for the iPhone and iPad, as well as Android. It is based on Primephonic, a classical music streaming service acquired by Apple in 2021.

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Top Rated Comments

24 months ago
Please put it on the Mac and Apple TV.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
24 months ago
The fact that Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, can't just take a fork of their OWN MUSIC App, and release a clone of it with the same set of features is embarrassing. It shouldn't take years for this app to have feature parity
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
24 months ago

They bought an app and rebranded it. The app they bought did not have CarPlay.
not quite. they bought primephonic for their classical metadata, and split off all the classical stuff to its own app and applied the metadata to it. this was a herculean task, and the resulting search and organization in the classical app is magical.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
24 months ago
Awesome! Now do it for Jazz too!
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
24 months ago
A year and a half after launch. What's going on with this app? Some senior VP's pet project?
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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24 months ago
When I say the image I immediately thought that they'd finally released a Mac app, but alas, the wait continues.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)