Holy smokes, Apple finally brought Replay to the Music app*
Benjamin Mayo, writing at 9to5Mac on Apple’s latest rendition of the wildly popular personal music trends feature that Spotify debuted in 2016 with Wrapped (but also kind of 2015 with Year in Music):
The Apple Music year-in-review montage for 2024 is now available. View yours now at replay.music.apple.com for Apple Music subscribers. New for this year, in the Apple Music app on iOS 18.1 or later, users can also tap through to watch their Replay without leaving the Music app.
An unreserved finally is due here. For a company that touts the advantage of native apps, it sure took them a long time — they only got their offering together in 2019 — to break Replay out of the web. We all know Apple’s famously strapped for cash and developer talent, though, so who can blame them? 🙃
(But has it really broken out? As far as I can tell, the Music app is just opening a web view of the same stuff available at replay.music.apple.com. It doesn’t really offer anything new or different in the native app. Whatever, I’m calling it a win.)
Here are my top artists for 2024:
Maybe next year Apple will do something more inspired, but for now I’m just happy I don’t need to log into a web app with a decidedly long subdomain just to see some cool graphics. 🤷♂️
Someone should probably tell MacRumors though:
For easy access to your most-played tracks, you can add your Apple Music Replay 2024 playlist directly to the Music app. However, unlike Spotify’s Wrapped feature, Apple Music Replay remains a web-based experience, with the Music app only able to play the curated playlist of top songs once added through the website.
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