Apple Music benefits from a variety of big and small updates in iOS 26, including one that wasn’t included in the WWDC keynote or press materials: Apple Music Replay is now a fully native in-app experience.Apple Music Replay no longer lives in web view with iOS 26 The popular year-end Spotify Wrapped feature has its Apple Music equivalent in Replay.Except technically, with Apple it’s an experience that’s available all year long.
Historically though, Apple Music Replay has had one major flaw: it was only available via the web, not inside the Music app.Things improved last year, with Replay being integrated into the Music app itself for the first time—but there was a catch.You view Apple Music Replay without leaving the Music app.
But ultimately you were still just opening a web view inside the app.It wasn’t built natively into the app.But in iOS 26 beta 1, that’s changed.
Apple Music Replay is now a fully native experience inside the Music app.There are no web views in sight.Instead, you can view all your Replay data for each month—and presumably at year-end, the whole year—in a native interface.
For some users, this change won’t make a huge difference.Not everyone cares whether a web view pops up or not.But making Replay fully native is absolutely a step in the right direction, creating a more pleasant user experience and giving Apple Music a boost in its ongoing competition with Spotify.
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