Apple Music finally rolls out to Waze with best features possibly missing

Waze is including the long-awaited Apple Music integration for iPhones, which is able to permit you to management the service’s music through the app’s built-in participant.

This new integration with the navigation app will allow you to play a track, pause it, or change to a brand new monitor on Waze with out opening the rest, and whereas holding your eyes on the highway. The replace (opens in new tab) provides entry to over 90 million songs on the platform, 1000's of expertly curated playlists, and Apple Music Radio.

To add Apple Music, you solely want to replace your app, faucet the music be aware icon, after which choose the audio app. Accept the connection when Waze asks and also you’re prepared to begin listening.

We did ask a Waze consultant if all of Apple Music’s features shall be accessible by Waze. Specifically, we requested if both spatial audio or Dolby Atmos can be accessible and if lossless audio can be compressed for Waze. Unfortunately, our questions had been left unanswered.

To be honest, the main target of this replace is basically on Waze and never about including something particular from Apple. And neither firm hinted at these audio high quality features coming to the Waze app.

Analysis: Missing the best

Apple Music has been arguably been the final main audio streaming service to not combine with Waze. Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and YouTube Music have been partnered up with Waze for years. More not too long ago, although, Apple's proven a willingness to loosen its grip on Apple Music by integrating it with third-party platforms.

For instance, Roku added Apple Music to its platform earlier this month (becoming a member of Spotify and Pandora), however it's an integration that additionally lacks spatial audio. PS5 gamers see the identical factor: Apple Music integration however it doesn’t have the best features. Neither gadget helps Dolby Atmos both, so you'll be able to’t get that high-quality sound.

If the previous is something to go by, Apple Music on Waze more than likely doesn’t have the high-definition audio features. Hopefully, Apple and third-party builders determine out a approach to convey Apple Music’s hallmark features to these platforms. Otherwise, it’ll be a relatively boring drive.