iOS 26 update: Apple Music gets language translations for lyrics and more

Apple Music app gets new Ligquid Glass-inspired user-interface, which enables an even better experience for discovering, sharing, and enjoying the music.

It's been a month since the iOS 26 update was rolled out to all the eligible iPhones worldwide. Everyone was keen to check out the refreshing Liquid Glass user-interface, new live language translation, additional visual intelligence capabilities and more.

As people begin to explore more of the iOS 26 on their iPhone, they are finding more value-added features than what Apple had highlighted in the presentation earlier this year. Recently, we learned that iOS 26 brings an AI-powered feature that will improve the battery life of the iphone.

We also saw, iPhones with iOS 26 can screen calls from people who are not in the contact list.

Now, we are getting to know that the native Apple Music app has received a big update too. It has a new UX, which enables an even better experience for discovering, sharing, and enjoying the music.

Users can now understand the lyrics and sing along across languages with Lyrics Translation and Pronunciation.

Apple Music now offer language translation for lyrics.

With Lyrics Translation, users will be able to understand the words of their favourite songs, and Lyrics Pronunciation enables users to sing along, even when lyrics are in another language. The features use machine learning to translate lyrics — with fine-tuning from language experts — to ensure the emotion, cultural context, and lyrical intent are fully preserved. More languages are rolling out within the next year.

Users can use iPhone as mic for karaoke session on Apple Music.

Also, Apple Music Sing feature lets users sing along to millions of songs with real-time, beat-by-beat lyrics. He/she can sing along by simply adjusting the volume of a songʼs vocals, or for more fun, users can now use the iPhone as a mic that amplifies their voice through the TV.

People can even use their iPhone as a Continuity Camera to see themselves singing onscreen along with lyrics and visual effects.

Apple Music also gets AutoMix. The feature uses intelligence to mix from one song to the next like a DJ, seamlessly using time-stretching and beat-matching at the perfect moment. Apple Music don’t AutoMix on albums, DJ mixes, and some genres where it thinks the original mix works best.

Like on the messenger apps, where users can pin their favourite message, Apple Music lets users pin their favourite track, album, playlist, artists and more, for quick, easy access at the top of their library.

Apple Music also brings new ways to start listening right from the Home Screen. A new Pins widget lets users get directly to the pinned music, and a new Live Radio widget tunes users in to one of Apple's six live radio stations with a single tap.

Apple Music offers Shaadi Mubarak, a one-of-a-kind curated playlist to celebrate the Great Indian Wedding.

In India, to improve listeners’ experience on the platform, Apple is bringing human curation. Apple Music curates 30K playlists curated by some of the best music tastemakers globally.

For instance, Shaadi Mubarak is a one-of-a-kind curated experience to celebrate the traditional and grand Indian wedding..

The campaign features 20+ playlists in Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu languages and includes ceremonies, artist-curated playlists, music videos and popular wedding-related albums. The campaign runs during the entire wedding season.

Further, Apple Music will offer a stronger playlist ecosystem across multiple languages, including Kannada, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Bengali. It spans genres such as Bollywood, pop, hip-hop, dance and more. Also, it has widened the scope by getting into moods and activities, like Romance, Chill, Dance, Workout and decades such as ‘90s Bollywood Essentials.

In India, Apple Music's individual plan costs Rs 119 per month. For a family plan (with access to six members), it costs Rs 179 per month.

The student plan is priced at Rs 59 per month. There is also an Apple One bundle plan, which starts at Rs 195 per month with access to Apple Music, Apple TV+, Arcade, and iCloud storage.

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