Test version iOS 8.4 includes new music player

In a test version of iOS 8.4 is a new music player. Features that Apple has added are a search function that can be called up from any screen and an Up Next function with a queue for upcoming songs.

The music player does not yet contain the expected streaming service that has emerged in so many rumors. Apple would like to present this service, based on the Beats purchased last year, in June at its own developer conference WWDC.

The music player has a changed design, in which, among other things, the albums and playlists that users have just added are at the top, 9to5 Mac reports. There is also a ‘miniplayer’, which remains visible when users browse through their music collection. It is then still possible to pause music.

The Up Next function is a way to set the next songs with a queue. After adding, users can customize the Up Next list themselves. In that menu there is also a way to check Up Next songs that the device has previously played.

Functionality is also gone. For example, the music player on the iPhone only works in portrait mode and the landscape mode is gone. The move is a break with the past. At the presentation of the first iPhone, Apple put a lot of emphasis on the landscape mode and called the iPhone a ‘widescreen iPod’.

Apple has released iOS 8.4 as a test version for developers. In it, the manufacturer has moved audiobooks to the iBooks app, among other things. These are in the Music app up to iOS 8.3.