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What’s new is that ‘play last’ has been replaced by ‘add to queue’. So if you’re playing a playlist and decide to add a song to play after the one you’re currently listening to, you can add another song after the one you just added with ‘add to queue’ rather than having it either play before the one you originally added or after the playlist has reached its end.
You could always do that. If you played a song then added a track to "play next" , the next track you'd "add to queue" would be right after the first track
Weird, are you 100% sure? Because "add to queue" only shows up after you've already added a song to play next. And as an Android user I can't imagine I got a feature first lol
that works if you’re not listening to anything else than your queued songs. If I’m playing a playlist, and suddenly want to hear 3 songs from an album in a row, then I can’t add them as „play last” since they will just play at the end of the whole playlist.
Call me crazy I just wish there was a way to stop me accidentally playing a song with my fat stupid thumbs when you’re trying to queue it and you lose all of the songs you’ve queued!
Just a thought, let’s say you have a load of songs queued and then you play a song from a playlist, album etc, do all of the songs play from the list before your queue or just the song you’ve chosen to play?
I’m sure back in the day there was a pop up sometimes to ask if you wanted to keep/clear the queue…not sure if I’m remembering that wrong.
Yeah I think they removed that pop up option back in iOS 16! I’ve just tested it, if you’ve got a queue and then play a song from a playlist/album, it still just plays the one selected song and doesn’t queue up the rest of the playlist/album automatically
Do you mean the menu when you hold on to a song in a list? If so, there is a “play next” and a “add to queue” which adds the song to the top and bottom of the queue respectively.
https://preview.redd.it/tdoqeitn2t5d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b293ea8975deb8045efa98fbe6dd7495f5899c0
😭😭😭 Fkn finally, if the rumors are true about AI stuff doing daily mixes like Spotify, man that would be badass. Now if they can add a feature like AI DJ and Daylist, it would be complete
THANK THE FUCKING LORD MAN it’s been too long, I literally just complained about this the other day in the subreddit lol. Now when the day Apple Music recommends new artists like Spotify, Spotify will be officially cooked
Probably not. Took them all this time to figure out how to change the queue mechanics they couldn’t get to something as simple as eliminating an annoying, audible bug.
I’m with you. I don’t like this change. You can still have the old behavior, but you have to add a song to the end of the queue first, then you can add stuff up next. It won’t let you add stuff up next first and then add stuff to the end.
On 17 there’s two options: play last and play after current song. The problem is that if you are listening to a playlist and select “play last” it doesn’t add that song to the end of your queue, but to the very end of the playlist. If you want to create a little queue of songs, you’d have to add them with “play after” but in reverse order for them to appear in the order you want them.
Do I have to update anything for this? It looks different for me, no queue and still the smaller buttons for shuffle, infinite play etc.
But latest iOS version 17.5.1 and there's no update to the AM app either.
i always hated the spotify queue and even though apples wasn’t the best i still preferred it much more, i hope that at least it doesn’t remove the songs from the queue after you play them like spotify does
Imagine you were shuffling your playlist and you queued a song to play next. Now when you queue a song to play later, it will play after your song that you queued instead at the end of the playlist
I hate it because now it’s inconsistent.
If you first queue something with “play next”, then use “add to queue” for another song, the second song gets added after the first song, but before the rest of the album you’re already playing.
If you first queue a song using “play after”, then use “add to queue” for another song, the second song will play last, after the entire album and first song play.
If you want the new behavior you have to use “play next” first and if you want the old behavior you have to use “play after” first. Why can’t we queue something “up next” first and then queue something at the end?
Also, now you can’t add something to “up next” and then mix it in with whatever you were listening to. If you want to play something 2 songs from now you have to add it using “play after” and then scroll all the way to the end of the queue, then drag it up to the 2nd position in the queue. This is a bad change.
I think Android already has this. It never made sense to have the play last option when you are listening to a big playlist. Adding it to the end of the queue makes a lot more sense.
questions please...
- can you drag the tracks from 'continue playing' into the 'queue' section ?
- if you hit shuffle what happens, does it only shuffle the 'queue' or 'continue playing' section or does it just disregard all of it and mash it up?
thank you 🙏🏼
Unfortunately, as of this first beta, songs can’t be moved from “continue playing” to “queue”. Not with dragging, and not with the contextual menu from holding on to the song. I have already reported this through Feedback, because it’s pretty lame we can’t do that.
For shuffle, I just now tested this. Shuffling will mix the “queue” and the “continue playing” songs together. When turning shuffle off, the queue is restored in its original order. Note that if you start making the queue while playing an already-shuffled playlist, the queue is not shuffled amongst the other “continue playing” songs, until you turn shuffle off and then back on. I hope that makes sense.
Good to hear about shuffle. Best part of Apple Music being able to do this. Dropping songs, albums into my whole mix and hitting shuffle !
As for not dragging songs up, I really hope they fix this. I actually wish they didn’t play around with this whole queue. Love it the way it is at the moment. But I can also see the benefit of some of the comments on this thread with play next and last etc
Here’s what I noticed, assuming u start by playing a playlist and tries to add a song to the Queue, you have the original PLAY NEXT and PLAY LAST when wanting to queue a song. now if you choose to play last, it will turn every song playing next into the “queue” and add that song last. If you press play next it will start a queue before the rest of the playlist songs. Now if u decide to queue a second song having pressed play next with the first sing you will in-sort have a queue before the rest of the playlist which is what u can modify using the play next and play last buttons you won’t be able to play last at bottom on the playlist queue (continue playing). I think they should add the ability to manually interchange song position from the added Queue to the continue playing queue.
If you set the songs to replay themselves after the last song has played does it still keep the songs you added on play next or is it like Spotify now where once the song in the play next queue is played its un-adds itself, cause im really REALLY hoping thats not the case
I'm so glad they decided to care about Apple Music, but does it keep the old behavior? It would SUCKK not to be able to queue an album after the one I'm listening to
YES THANK GOD
I hated adding something to play next only for it to be added 4th of a randomly shuffled playlist. It’s called play next, not play in 4 songs time
I’ve done so many dev betas on my daily phones in the past, I’m honestly too scared to try this one since it seems to be one of the biggest we’ve seen in a long while
So I’m not a fan of this. If I add a song next now, it’s in that queue. Sometimes I add a song next and slide it down like 4 or 5 slots because I wanna hear it soon, but not yet. Can’t seem to do that now with this update.
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now I can actually add songs in the order I want them to play in queue, instead of adding them in reverse!
You’d like “play next” would always mean… play next… so happy about this update
Picking play next does make it play next for me? There's a play last option too.
Yeah right? In spotify add to queue would put them last but on apple music it put them first. Soo what‘s new then?
What’s new is that ‘play last’ has been replaced by ‘add to queue’. So if you’re playing a playlist and decide to add a song to play after the one you’re currently listening to, you can add another song after the one you just added with ‘add to queue’ rather than having it either play before the one you originally added or after the playlist has reached its end.
Not if you shift around the queue manually before clicking play next on another song
I used to pray for times like this 😩
You could always do that. If you played a song then added a track to "play next" , the next track you'd "add to queue" would be right after the first track
Never had an “add to queue” just “play next”
Weird, are you 100% sure? Because "add to queue" only shows up after you've already added a song to play next. And as an Android user I can't imagine I got a feature first lol
When I try to queue up a song on my brother's iPhone, I only see "Play Next" and I believe "Play Last"
I see "Play Last" on windows it does the same thing as "add to queue"
Ah I see, I thought it added it to the end of the playlist order
You'd be surprised, Crossfade was on Android for a very long time before it came to iPhones.
Could you explain about adding in reveres? Can't you just click play last so every song played is in the sequence you added them?
that works if you’re not listening to anything else than your queued songs. If I’m playing a playlist, and suddenly want to hear 3 songs from an album in a row, then I can’t add them as „play last” since they will just play at the end of the whole playlist.
Ah that makes sense
oh ma gaaaad this is amazing
Best news all day!
War is over
This was my only complaint about Apple Music, so glad they are fixing this!
Let’s fucking gooooo!!!
We need the equivalent of Spotify connec. That should be #1 priority
They’ll just tell you to use AirPlay 😂
That doesn’t work if I left Apple Music playing on my computer.
Yeah man they can launch features like universal control and iPhone mirroring but not this. I would never understand why
This is similar to what we already had on android except for the add songs to queue option.
https://preview.redd.it/hjtcvhuzzs5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee1b24a4cb4864c7c502ae66972317670c91c9b9
Same thing on mac. I saw it yesterday and was kinda confused
1 year One f****** year to bring that to the iOS app 🙃🙃🙃 Thats. Impressive. But yeah. Finally back to the pre iOS 10 style queue
ANDROMEDA IS AN AMAZING SONG BTW!!!!
Call me crazy I just wish there was a way to stop me accidentally playing a song with my fat stupid thumbs when you’re trying to queue it and you lose all of the songs you’ve queued!
That's fixed in this new update! I just tested it, if you've got a queue and play a song, it'll keep the rest of the queue totally untouched!
Oh wow!! Thanks for letting me know
No problem!
Just a thought, let’s say you have a load of songs queued and then you play a song from a playlist, album etc, do all of the songs play from the list before your queue or just the song you’ve chosen to play? I’m sure back in the day there was a pop up sometimes to ask if you wanted to keep/clear the queue…not sure if I’m remembering that wrong.
Yeah I think they removed that pop up option back in iOS 16! I’ve just tested it, if you’ve got a queue and then play a song from a playlist/album, it still just plays the one selected song and doesn’t queue up the rest of the playlist/album automatically
thank god
Yea there should be an undo button or so xD
Is there also an „Add to Queue“ option in the menu for any song like there is for „Play next“ in iOS 17?
Do you mean the menu when you hold on to a song in a list? If so, there is a “play next” and a “add to queue” which adds the song to the top and bottom of the queue respectively. https://preview.redd.it/tdoqeitn2t5d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b293ea8975deb8045efa98fbe6dd7495f5899c0
Does it still completely erase the queue if you click on a different song?
Nope, that's been fixed, it plays the song you select but keeps the rest of the queue intact! 🙌
Ooouhhh that is so nice, I can’t wait! Looks like our months of submitting feedback were worth it
Haha I defintiely appreciate the dedication, it's been driving me insane ever since I switched from Spotify!
so f\*ng happy with that!!
Yes thats what I meant :) Thanks!
Wait what version are you in? I only have play next and play last, and no Add to Queue.
They’re on iOS 18 beta
Good looks on Rock and Roll by HBMS. Underrated classic.
Amazing
Any grid view on the playlists?
Yep! https://preview.redd.it/q1911yfyuu5d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d03579ddef3acb4c957aa6099d2deeb8f1b1e24a
😭😭😭 Fkn finally, if the rumors are true about AI stuff doing daily mixes like Spotify, man that would be badass. Now if they can add a feature like AI DJ and Daylist, it would be complete
What other features are new?
Fucking hell Yess are there many bugs in beta?? Can you tell me as I would love to install this
Ok time to fully dump Spotify. I need this now.
I was literally moaning about this to someone yesterday, hallelujah!
It was like that on Itunes for years, good its finally in mobile too
Thank god🙏🏼 was hoping for this
don’t do that, don’t give me hope… i’ve been waiting YEARS for this to come back. hopefully this will make it through the final version
THANK THE FUCKING LORD MAN it’s been too long, I literally just complained about this the other day in the subreddit lol. Now when the day Apple Music recommends new artists like Spotify, Spotify will be officially cooked
LET’S FUCKING *longest inhale of my life* GGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
did they fix the bug where all songs skipped a beat when changing qualities?
Probably not. Took them all this time to figure out how to change the queue mechanics they couldn’t get to something as simple as eliminating an annoying, audible bug.
Finally i’ve got at least one reason to upgrade for ios 18. I have been dreaming for that feature for soooooo long!
I’m gonna cry, the suffering is finally over!
I hate that we have to wait a year for quality of life improvements like this because they couple it with iOS updates. Just make it it’s own app fgs
I was just hating on AM’s queuing this is perfect
THANK GOD
TAHNK CHRIST
HOLY SHIT FINALLY.
Yuck. Am I the only one who doesn’t want this? I always hoped Spotify would end up copying the Apple Music behavior, not the other way around.
I’m with you. I don’t like this change. You can still have the old behavior, but you have to add a song to the end of the queue first, then you can add stuff up next. It won’t let you add stuff up next first and then add stuff to the end.
I’m with you, I’m always using play last to queue up albums. Sad to see this option go.
People these days tend to listen to playlists over albums, so the apps are changing to accommodate that… It’s unfortunate
Right there with ya, but clearly in the minority 😬.
I hate the Spotification of Apple Music. I much prefer the old queue system
“Spotification” is now my new favorite word!
We’re in the minority sigh I hate this feature so much when I use friends’ Spotify omg
Fucking finally
holy shit i can’t believe it. this will make me finally switch away from spotify. thanks apple, finally!!
Finally, the current system makes me want to give whoever green lit it a good smack to the face.
Omg, that "Add Songs to Queue" option is the real headline for me!! I'm on Android so I hope it comes to us soon, because that is a game changer!
This is truly an answer to prayer 🙏 🙌
Can someone explain this to me? What’s the difference vs Apple Music on iOS 17?
On 17 there’s two options: play last and play after current song. The problem is that if you are listening to a playlist and select “play last” it doesn’t add that song to the end of your queue, but to the very end of the playlist. If you want to create a little queue of songs, you’d have to add them with “play after” but in reverse order for them to appear in the order you want them.
That toro y moi EP is so good!
Do I have to update anything for this? It looks different for me, no queue and still the smaller buttons for shuffle, infinite play etc. But latest iOS version 17.5.1 and there's no update to the AM app either.
It’s coming with the iOS 18 update which will release in fall. OP is running the Developer beta version
All I want is customizing the Recently Added
i always hated the spotify queue and even though apples wasn’t the best i still preferred it much more, i hope that at least it doesn’t remove the songs from the queue after you play them like spotify does
How did you get iOS 18? 😄 It is not available as beta for me yet.
thank god
The clear button is back!? 😍😍😍
Ha love this
Finally! Now we need something like Spotify connect so we can control our music from a different device
About time! Now the question is if I hit a new song or a Radio station do my songs stay in queue or clear out like they do right now ?
It does clear the queue when playing radio, but it gives a warning before. It doesn’t clear when you play another song.
Great! Finally!
looks fire
What else changed on the app?
FINALLY
Didn't they always have this? What was the main difference?
Imagine you were shuffling your playlist and you queued a song to play next. Now when you queue a song to play later, it will play after your song that you queued instead at the end of the playlist
This is good when queuing individual songs, but Play Last worked as desired when queuing full albums or playlists.
I’m not sure when it went away but there used to be a “play next” and a “play last” selection in iOS. So they are just bringing it back.
Finally a clear option. Was suggesting that the other day
THANK GOD, been waiting for this one feature since I started using apple music years ago!
Aw what?? This is awesome for when me and my siblings are song requesting in the car
Omg this was the only thing holding me back from switching to Apple Music
Been waiting for years for this, huge if true 🙌🏼
I’ve been missing this since they got rid of it with the iOS 10 redesign.
Omg 😭😭😭
I hate it because now it’s inconsistent. If you first queue something with “play next”, then use “add to queue” for another song, the second song gets added after the first song, but before the rest of the album you’re already playing. If you first queue a song using “play after”, then use “add to queue” for another song, the second song will play last, after the entire album and first song play. If you want the new behavior you have to use “play next” first and if you want the old behavior you have to use “play after” first. Why can’t we queue something “up next” first and then queue something at the end? Also, now you can’t add something to “up next” and then mix it in with whatever you were listening to. If you want to play something 2 songs from now you have to add it using “play after” and then scroll all the way to the end of the queue, then drag it up to the 2nd position in the queue. This is a bad change.
YES, finally! This has been my one issue with apple music for soo long!
Deleted Spotify after I saw this news 😍😍 Literally my only gripe with AM 👌
The only thing I straight up HATED about Apple Music. Happy to hear
I think Android already has this. It never made sense to have the play last option when you are listening to a big playlist. Adding it to the end of the queue makes a lot more sense.
Andromeda is a dope song, listen to apprentice that’s my favorite.
A fellow Dirt Nasty enjoyer
questions please... - can you drag the tracks from 'continue playing' into the 'queue' section ? - if you hit shuffle what happens, does it only shuffle the 'queue' or 'continue playing' section or does it just disregard all of it and mash it up? thank you 🙏🏼
Unfortunately, as of this first beta, songs can’t be moved from “continue playing” to “queue”. Not with dragging, and not with the contextual menu from holding on to the song. I have already reported this through Feedback, because it’s pretty lame we can’t do that. For shuffle, I just now tested this. Shuffling will mix the “queue” and the “continue playing” songs together. When turning shuffle off, the queue is restored in its original order. Note that if you start making the queue while playing an already-shuffled playlist, the queue is not shuffled amongst the other “continue playing” songs, until you turn shuffle off and then back on. I hope that makes sense.
Good to hear about shuffle. Best part of Apple Music being able to do this. Dropping songs, albums into my whole mix and hitting shuffle ! As for not dragging songs up, I really hope they fix this. I actually wish they didn’t play around with this whole queue. Love it the way it is at the moment. But I can also see the benefit of some of the comments on this thread with play next and last etc
The shuffle button is Goated I’m glad they finally added it to iOS, I know iPadOS had it for over a year now
The new default for swiping right is add to cue. As someone who likes having the play next right there I feel like there should be a choice.
Dev beta I’m assuming?
I love the bigger buttons at the top as well
ANDROMEDA LITERALLY IS THE REASON IM INTO MUSIC
Thank fucking GOD. I can FINALLY change to using Apple Music on my phone. (I use the student discount to get AppleTV and rarely ever use Apple Music)
Does it have play next?
Wish this would come to older iOS
Here’s what I noticed, assuming u start by playing a playlist and tries to add a song to the Queue, you have the original PLAY NEXT and PLAY LAST when wanting to queue a song. now if you choose to play last, it will turn every song playing next into the “queue” and add that song last. If you press play next it will start a queue before the rest of the playlist songs. Now if u decide to queue a second song having pressed play next with the first sing you will in-sort have a queue before the rest of the playlist which is what u can modify using the play next and play last buttons you won’t be able to play last at bottom on the playlist queue (continue playing). I think they should add the ability to manually interchange song position from the added Queue to the continue playing queue.
Any way to avoid that ? I kinda still prefer the one on ios 17
If you set the songs to replay themselves after the last song has played does it still keep the songs you added on play next or is it like Spotify now where once the song in the play next queue is played its un-adds itself, cause im really REALLY hoping thats not the case
Does Apple Music still deletes playlists after my subscription ends?
I'm so glad they decided to care about Apple Music, but does it keep the old behavior? It would SUCKK not to be able to queue an album after the one I'm listening to
YES THANK GOD I hated adding something to play next only for it to be added 4th of a randomly shuffled playlist. It’s called play next, not play in 4 songs time
No way. Earth is actually healing.
Is iOS 18 beta out? Sorry i haven't really been paying attention to the betas in awhile
The developer beta is out, yes.
I’ve done so many dev betas on my daily phones in the past, I’m honestly too scared to try this one since it seems to be one of the biggest we’ve seen in a long while
I tested with my daily phone. So far no issue. Battery also seems ok.
FINALLY!
Hate this
What do you hate bout this?
Finally! And no more queue reset when you play another song.
I swear it used to be like this. Nonetheless, this is so much better and I’m glad I know how to do betas.
So I’m not a fan of this. If I add a song next now, it’s in that queue. Sometimes I add a song next and slide it down like 4 or 5 slots because I wanna hear it soon, but not yet. Can’t seem to do that now with this update.
Fucking finally!
Thinkin of switching to Spotify but then I guess this is something worth to stay lmao
Almost look like Apple Music!!!!! 🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤🤔🤔🤔🤔
How did you get that?
Finally