Moving from Spotify to Apple Music
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Moving from Spotify to Apple Music
This was a long time in the making – and I hinted as much in my iOS 26 review back in September – but after a lot of back and forth and a year of daily usage, I’ve decided to switch back from Spotify to Apple Music. Put simply: despite the CEO’s replacement, I continue to get a bad taste in my mouth from Spotify’s corporate policies and seeming embrace of so-called “AI music”. Yes, Spotify’s algorithm can be amazing for discovery, and I know I’m going to miss it. But every time I’ve used Spotify lately, it felt a little gross.
And no, Apple’s political moves – at least from my perspective – aren’t great, either. However, all things being terrible these days for one reason or another, at least with Apple Music, I get a superior app experience on iPhone and iPad, better sound quality for hi-res lossless playback, and a vibrant ecosystem of third-party clients built with MusicKit that do not exist for Spotify. I picked my poison, I suppose.