How to use Apple Music, TV and iCloud on non-Apple devices

You may have noticed this a few bricks are removed from Apple’s so-called walled garden – in other words, the apps and services that Apple operates are no longer just available on Apple hardware such as iPhones, iPads and Macs.

This may not be a big surprise at this point: since Apple wants to plug in as much revenue from these services as possible, it knows that users want to listen to their Apple Music playlists on Chromebooks, watch their Apple TV + apps without a real Apple TV, and so on.

While Apple devices still provide the best experience for Apple services, and not every Apple service is available with non-Apple hardware, this is what you can do in terms of obtaining these applications on devices not provided by Apple. was not made. This is especially useful if you share Apple subscriptions with family members who do not use Apple devices.

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Apple’s Spotify rival had the honor of being the first Apple app to appear on Android, if you don’t count a Beats companion app and an Android-to-iOS switch. If you have an Apple Music subscriber and have an Android device, you can install Apple Music for Android to get all the streaming goodness.

However, it’s important to note that you need to be an Apple Music subscriber: the app shows tracks you purchased in the iTunes Store and tracks you imported into MacOS (or iTunes on Mac) in the Music app , but you can not manage the app at all unless you pay the $ 10 monthly subscription.

For now, the expansive iTunes media player has turned into a dedicated Music app on macOS, but it’s still available on Windows. That may change soon, but iTunes for Windows (or whatever it replaces) remains the best way to get Apple Music on Windows. You can access all your imported and purchased songs with or without an Apple Music subscription and add streaming on top if you need to.

Apple Music on the Internet is also available now – this is a very useful option if you are trying to access your playlists from a Chromebook or from a computer where you can not access your music library from a computer application. You don’t get advanced features like offline sync, but it’s another way to access Apple Music from any computer, Mac or otherwise.

Speaking of Chromebooks, the Android app will run on these laptops if you need offline syncing and various other features. The app will not run on Android TV (or Google TV), but you can use the Android app to Chromecast your songs on any device with Android TV on board. It is also worth mentioning that there is no Apple Music app for Amazon Fire tablets or TVs, although you can use Apple Music via Alexa.

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