Apple is introducing new functionality for almost every iPhone app and feature with iOS 17, and CarPlay hasn't been left out. We haven't seen the total overhaul of ‌CarPlay‌ that Apple promised last year as of yet, but there are a handful of new features. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. SharePlay for the Music App SharePlay works with the Apple Music app in ‌CarPlay‌, which means everyone in the car, passengers included, can contribute to an ‌Apple Music‌ playlist. As long as the car owner has an ‌Apple Music‌ subscription and initiates a SharePlay session from ‌CarPlay‌, other people in the car can choose music to play. Each person can scan a QR code generated by…

Macworld Apple updated its entry-level iPhone in March 2022, adding a few nips and tucks here and there along with a quiet price increase. It kept the Home button and small form factor that appeals to some, but the aging design and minimal upgrades meant the new iPhone SE was coolly received by the masses, with many looking forward to the next generation and reviewers hoping Apple was planning a more radical overhaul of the device. Right on cue, rumors are now starting to appear about what that might look like. In this article we’ve gathered together everything we know so far, and what we can reasonably speculate, about the iPhone SE 4. Update 06/21/23: Echoing previous reports, Barclays analysts…

Spotify is rolling out a new desktop experience for the Mac version of its music streaming app, with updates including redesigns of the Your Library and Now Playing screens.Billed by Spotify as "one of its biggest revamps," the update to the Spotify Desktop experience is said to make it the best way to explore and organize Spotify on a computer or web browser.As part of the overhaul, the main content area will remain unchanged and will serve as a main hub for activity. However, new additions bring the desktop app in line with the mobile counterparts. Read more...

Spotify is rolling out a new desktop experience for the Mac version of its music streaming app, with updates including redesigns of the Your Library and Now Playing screens.Billed by Spotify as "one of its biggest revamps," the update to the Spotify Desktop experience is said to make it the best way to explore and organize Spotify on a computer or web browser.As part of the overhaul, the main content area will remain unchanged and will serve as a main hub for activity. However, new additions bring the desktop app in line with the mobile counterparts. Read more...

Spotify is out today with an overhaul for its desktop experience. The new UI brings redesigned ‘Your Library’ and ‘Now Playing’ sections to align more with the iOS/Android Spotify app and make it more seamless to “explore, curate, listen to, and organize Spotify on a computer or web browser.” more… The post Spotify launches new desktop experience for Mac and PC with three-column UI appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Macworld Of all the features coming to macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS this fall, I might be most excited about widgets. No, seriously. Widgets! Yes, of course, widgets have been around forever. Apple overhauled the widget experience with iOS 14 three years ago, giving us a new widget template, widgets on the home screen, and smart stacks. On the iPad, they were relegated to a sidebar, but iPadOS 15 fixed that a year later, letting us put widgets anywhere on the home screen. In macOS Big Sur we could put iPhone-ish widgets in the notification shade off the right side of the screen. But with the OS updates coming this fall, Apple is making some welcome changes that will take…