Apple Music Adds 5 iOS 27 Features, Expanding AutoMix and Friends Playlist
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Updated · 9to5Mac · Jul 20
Apple Music Adds 5 iOS 27 Features, Expanding AutoMix and Friends Playlist
2 articles · Updated · 9to5Mac · Jul 20
Summary
Five Apple Music upgrades arrive in iOS 27: landscape mode, improved AutoMix, redesigned artist pages, a new Friends playlist, and extra-large home-screen widgets.
Landscape mode brings side-by-side lyrics, artwork and playback controls to iPhone, while AutoMix—introduced in iOS 26—gets smoother transitions and expands to tvOS and HomePod.
Artist pages now use fullscreen color backgrounds and more prominent controls, and the weekly Friends playlist shows what contacts are listening to, with updates every Thursday.
Three extra-large widgets—Recently Played, Recommendations and Top Charts—give Apple Music its biggest widget expansion yet as iOS 27 broadens interface changes across Apple apps.