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Apple Music Classical Updated With New Icon and Refreshed Design

Apple today released Apple Music Classical version 4.1, with a new black-and-white app icon and an updated interface.

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The redesigned icon retains the app's treble clef, but now rendered in shaded black against a white background. The change brings ‌Apple Music‌ Classical in line with ‌Apple Music‌'s new visual identity, which Apple introduced last month, replacing its familiar red branding with a monochrome appearance.

The new version of the app also features blue accents for selected tabs, playback buttons, and links, instead of the previous red ones. Apple has not detailed the visual changes in its release notes, which state only that the update contains "stability and performance enhancements."

‌Apple Music‌ Classical is included with ‌Apple Music‌ subscriptions at no additional cost. The app offers search tailored to classical recordings, composer biographies, album booklets, time-synced listening guides, and curated stations.

Version 4.1 is available now on the App Store for the iPhone and iPad, requiring iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 or later.

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Top Rated Comments

52 minutes ago at 05:24 am

Why are they talking the color out of these icons?
Maybe because so many other app icons are drenched in color, which makes black and white stand out more?

No idea, really, but I'm kind of blown away by how hard people are crashing out over the Music icon.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Mac Fly (film) Avatar
47 minutes ago at 05:29 am
The monochrome icon is classy.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
48 minutes ago at 05:28 am
I really don't understand these black-and-white icons. It's hard for me to find them because I'm always looking for the red icon app thumbnail thing. They could have even made it animated or interact with your cursor position or finger position on the screen. I just don't understand the logic behind this removal of color.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
storybylano Avatar
49 minutes ago at 05:26 am
They could have taken advantage of the Liquid Glass design and created something beautiful and iconic, instead went with the boring black and white.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Apleeseed84 Avatar
18 minutes ago at 05:57 am

Maybe because so many other app icons are drenched in color, which makes black and white stand out more?

No idea, really, but I'm kind of blown away by how hard people are crashing out over the Music icon.
That does the complete opposite of what it{s trying to do for me, I find apps by color on my Idevices, even on CarPlay.

Especially when in a rush of opening, an app color guide me to the right direction, maybe it is just me, but whenever I switch the themes to generic colors, i go back to default, like Apple Music and classical were red, Sirius xm is blue, Spotify is green, instagram is tan, YouTube is red and white, is the branding logo effect 100%.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
gleepskip Avatar
34 minutes ago at 05:42 am
John Apple is leaving his mark right out of the gate. Hopefully the next decade won't be full of head-scratching decisions like this.
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