{"id":47334,"date":"2025-04-07T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47334"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:52:15","slug":"ios-18-4-ambient-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/07\/ios-18-4-ambient-music\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 18.4: Ambient Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/ios-18-4-access-hidden-ambient-music-playlists\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/ios-18-4-access-hidden-ambient-music-playlists\/\"><p>In Apple&rsquo;s iOS 18.4 software update, there&rsquo;s a new Ambient Music feature available in the Control Center options on iPhone. It&rsquo;s free to use, and does not require an Apple Music subscription. It&rsquo;s also more customizable than most users probably realize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is accessed via Control Center and seems to be iOS-only, unlike the similar Background Sounds feature that still exists for <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/iphone\/play-background-sounds-iphb2cfa052c\/ios\">iOS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/mac-help\/play-background-sounds-mchl3061cdc6\/mac\">Mac<\/a> under Accessibility.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/ios-18-4-and-ipados-18-4\/\">iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/macos-15-4\/\">macOS 15.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/07\/ios-15-tips-and-tricks\/\">iOS 15 Tips and Tricks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: In Apple&rsquo;s iOS 18.4 software update, there&rsquo;s a new Ambient Music feature available in the Control Center options on iPhone. It&rsquo;s free to use, and does not require an Apple Music subscription. It&rsquo;s also more customizable than most users probably realize. This is accessed via Control Center and seems to be iOS-only, unlike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-04-07T19:52:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"b83ce274-b806-41fe-9b82-3bf6382c31b3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-04-07T19:52:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AuDzidLgGQf6bgjv2OCwxsw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,31,2586,30,2598,157],"class_list":["post-47334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-music"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47335,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47334\/revisions\/47335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}