Apple Music Classical

Apple Music Classical has no ads and a simple interface design that allows users to focus on the music itself.

The Apple Music Classical app also offers more than 5 million tracks to choose from, with hundreds or even thousands of recordings of well-known works. The Ninth Symphony, for example, has 18,000 versions to choose from.

Introduction

Get the app designed specifically for classical music. Available to Apple Music subscribers at no additional cost. Instantly find any recording in the world’s largest classical music catalog with search built for the genre. Enjoy the highest audio quality available (up to 24-bit/192 kHz Hi-Res Lossless) and hear classical favorites like never before in Spatial Audio—all with zero ads.

Apple Music Classical also makes it easy for beginners to get to know the classical genre thanks to hundreds of Essentials playlists, insightful composer biographies, deep-dive guides for many key works, and intuitive browsing features.

Feature

The Ultimate Classical Experience

Get unlimited access to the world’s largest classical music catalog (over 5 million tracks) with everything from new releases to celebrated masterpieces, plus thousands of exclusive albums.

Search by composer, work, conductor, or even catalog number, and find specific recordings instantly.

Listen in the highest audio quality (up to 24 bit/192 kHz Hi-Res Lossless) and enjoy thousands of recordings in immersive Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos.

Know exactly who and what you’re listening to thanks to complete, accurate metadata.

Learn about each classical period with The Story of Classical audio guides.

Dig deeper as you listen, with insightful album notes, descriptions of key works, and thousands of composer biographies.

About this app

(The Good)

Present classical music in the right way

Allows users to search with metadata specific to classical music

Well-known works are complemented by backstories, interviews with performers and special electronic illustrations

Music stories are easy for the general listener to get started

Supports lossless playback through high resolution up to 192kHz/24-bit, and some songs support Dolby Panorama space audio playback

(The Bad)

The metadata of ordinary classical music works still lacks human proofreading

Lack of singing function

It is not possible to subscribe separately from Apple Music

Can not use random play (depending on your preference)

The display is too cumbersome in some scenarios (depending on your preference)

(The Ugly)

Lists do not use a preload mechanism and need to wait frequently to load (less than when they were first published)

Cannot be used offline

Lack of support for macOS, tvOS, Carplay

What's new

This update contains stability and performance enhancements.