Apple Intelligence may get ability to create Apple Music playlist art

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Code within the latest iOS 18 developer beta suggests that Apple Intelligence will play a part in creating playlist artwork within Apple Music.

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Apple Intelligence may create artwork for Apple Music playlists



Apple is truly planning to plug Apple Intelligence into everything. Reinforcing the core idea that it will power features instead of being a ChatGPT-like app, new evidence shows that there will be an Apple Intelligence-powered aspect to Apple Music.

As Apple releases its fourth round of developer betas for iOS 18, code discovered within it includes what appears to be the option for a button called "Create Image." It appears that using this button will launch Image Playground, Apple's new system-wide AI tool for generating images.

As first spotted by 9to5mac, there is no further detail. However, given Apple's demonstrations of Image Playground, and the positioning of this feature in Apple Music, it is possible to infer what it might all do.

Specifically, it appears tied to the creation of playlists, and also Image Playground will not produce any photo-realistic images. So it's likely that Apple Music will take the tracks in the playlist -- or perhaps the playlist title -- and provide a somehow appropriate illustration or sketch.

So a party music playlist might show the same kind of balloons that Apple shows in Messages. Or a playlist entitled "workout" could have a sketch of a gym.

Image Playground does also offer an animation option. However, Apple Music has long included the ability for artists to create video covers for their albums, and that's been sufficiently irritating for people to want instructions on how to disable it.

Rumor Score: Likely

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Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    byronlbyronl Posts: 371member
    No thank you.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    PemaPema Posts: 98member
    All that happens is after twenty odd years of collecting and collating gargantuan amounts of data, Apple, and other companies can use AI algorithms to 'curate' what playlists you would enjoy. This whole schtick about AI being artificial intelligence is a lot of hooey. The day that some company, or someone, can predict the future based on past data accurately  then you have something. Or better yet: can AI tell us where MH370 is buried. Of course not.  >:)

    Maybe in the year 3035. Maybe. 

    Until then we are muddling, plodding in the dark. 
  • Reply 3 of 3
    ToortogToortog Posts: 60member
    Oh so glad were getting AI  so we can get lame art and emojis all over our screens.     
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