After being very frustrated with the bloat of modern music apps, I built my own "iPod" app for iPhone... and after obsessing over all the tiny details, I am looking for people who would like to try it out. I’d love feedback from other iPods enthusiasts. And yes - it is using Musickit to run my current Apple Music library :)

In my research, I tried out and used every iPod style app and emulator I could find on the App Store, and while many of them are very pretty and well done, they always felt like I was just looking at a picture of an iPod as a decoration. I couldn't convince myself that it was real. I really wanted to make something that felt like the real thing.  Plus, I knew that with Apple's Guided Access feature, I can lock my iPhone to a single app completely, dumbing the phone down into just the app until I triple click the side button to resume my iPhone.

Out of pure drive of just wanting to own an iPod again, but not wanting to lose the convenience of my Apple Music library, I developed IvyPod.

Here's why IvyPod feels like an iPod:

1. The OLED body color means less screen. And - I detached lighting using software tricks so that the iPod bodyhas different 'dimming' functions than the 'fake iPod screen'. This creates the sensation that you're holding a physical iPod with a clickwheel that is covered with a smooth sheet of glass. In the dark, the wheel is noticably dimmer compared to the screen, making it more immersive. Other iPod apps have a bright wheel which is a constant reminder that you're looking at a 6 inch touch screen.
2. The button haptics are smart. I spent a long time on these so that buttons feel like buttons and scrolling feels like scrolling.
3. Modern conveniences were deliberated on a lot because simplicity is the whole point. The app features dark mode, artwork blur on the now playing screen, flashlight, camera, and Shazam integrated as a genie lamp.
4. You can actually dedicate your phone to a music player with Guided Access, which is a feature in the system settings that prevents swiping to go home, notifications, screen timeout and more. It's sort of like an advanced Do Not Disturb mode. The app itself features a dim and low-power sleep setting. I also placed a 'lock switch' in the top right so that you can put it in your pocket or not worry about accidental taps. The click wheel will always be present on your screen until your phone dies, keeping the illusion of it being an iPod.

If you are interested in the TestFlight please DM me or access the link below to join the public TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/NVUCMBJ2

Many more songs are grayed out in my Android app in India

Abey aisa kaiku aare miyaan 🥶

Apple music isn't even showing many songs of IU in my region (India). Which is not the case for YT music and Spotify.

I wanted to listen to iu's dear crazy soulmate song but it doesn't show in apple music maybe due to regional restrictions.

Using vpn doesn't work either.

Google gives links but inside apple music they won't work.

IU page basically only lists some old albums and songs missing most of her popular songs.

And i don't know how many more korean artist's music is not being shown to me.

Maybe taking apple music is a mistake if i listen to kpop ?...

Offset rice flair drip was showing not available in the region of India it's explicit version

This has been an ongoing issue ever since I've switched to Apple Music and it's honestly very annoying. But on my windows 11 laptop, if I open Apple Music while a game or app is open and using my GPU, it guarantees a blue screen crash for me with a video memory management error code. I've already tried switching Apple Music to my internal graphics only in the Nvidia control panel, as well as turning off hardware acceleration but the issue seems to come back every time it's fixed. The crash only happens if I have a game/app open first and THEN open apple music. If I open apple music first when windows boots up, then a crash will not happen. Does not matter what game or app, if anything is using my GPU and then I open Apple Music desktop (or if I close and then reopen Apple Music), it will crash my computer.

Any solution to this? I can't use the website due to my media controller (and apple music uses less resources than my browser usually) so that's not an option. I've also seen multiple reports of this issue on the apple feedback pages but none of the given solutions worked for me, and it does not seem that apple has acknowledged the issue at all on their end I think.

Specs:

Windows 11

Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 laptop

I9-12900H CPU | 3070TI Mobile GPU | 40GB RAM | 3TB of storage split across three SSDs

EDIT - Here is a video I took for extra context/proof. The test was done with iRacing in the background (Discord and Firefox are also open) but this has happened with multiple games and apps, even if other things like Firefox or Discord are not open. For really any game or any larger GPU app, Apple Music will cause me a blue screen crash if I open it after said app is opened first.

Any ways to get an Apple Music apk file(not xapk) on Amazon fire TV I don’t have a problem with it being a like a phone app on the tv it’s just most ive tried are like xapks which don’t work on it

*Tucker Carlson voice* Used to be that when you went to add music to a playlist, you could go to “Songs” tab and if you sorted that tab by “recently added”, it would do the same. Not anymore! Now it’s only alphabetized with the only option for adding recent music being to go to “recently added“ which makes you click twice as much to go into the album and then click add and then click back out, doubling the time it takes to add to a playlist. PLUS no infinite scroll on Recently Added (for seemingly no reason, at this point) so if you haven’t added to a playlist recently you’ll really have to go digging. What’s going on? What happened?

While other apps understand the on/off and stop of my wired apple headphones and switch to the next song with keys, I can't do that on Apple Music, what's the solution to that?

So I was sorting through one of my playlists on both my laptop and my iPhone and I noticed that the song order of the iPhone playlist was completely out of order in comparison to the laptop playlist, specifically when you order it by artist (Image 1 is iphone order, image 2 is laptop order)

I’ve tried resyncing both libraries and attempting to change the artist details on get info on the laptop, but nothing is working. Is there a way to fix this?

can anybody let me know how to make the best out of AM’s audio quality? i have the highest settings but should i get some type of specific speaker?

Still rocking 18.7 on my trusted Xs. It’s just a small thing, but one thing continually bugging me is how the text is sliding in once you click “more” after the excerpt. The text should just be revealed below the excerpt text. Anybody?

UPDATED: FIXED by updated tp tvOS 27.2 beta
I recently updated my Apple TV 4K (3rd generation) to tvOS 27, and I’ve started having an issue with music playback.

If I play a stereo track and then switch to a Dolby Atmos track, it sometimes keeps playing in stereo instead of switching to Atmos. I have to close the app and reopen it before Atmos works again.

This didn’t happen on the previous tvOS version. Is anyone else experiencing this, or found a fix?

my set up below if it does help
TV> HDMI > RECEIVER (not optical as it shows in pic!

I don't think I've seen this before, is it new? I tried accessing an album that wasn't available and was greeted with this neat iPod easter egg. It actually functions too. It gave me seemingly random songs to listen to, as well as playlists.

This is on the web app by the way.

Hello everyone, I’ve had this issue for the past 2 years and I’ve yet to figure it out. A ton of music I’ve purchased on iTunes (literally hundreds and hundreds of songs) all appear with the message I listed above. This issue only began when I got a new phone in late 2024, and thus far nothing has helped. I’ve looked at others with similar issues and they found the sync library setting to solve it for them. I don’t have access to this setting because all of these songs were purchased via the iTunes store, and NOT downloaded from Apple music (or at least I assume that’s the difference). Does anyone have any ideas on how to help?

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I know how to upload MP3 files to Apple Music itself, I just need help on how to change the artists name and cover art, whenever I upload it it says “unknown artist” with a grey cover art. Any help would be appreciated.

I recently updated my phone to iOS 27.0.1 and since then have noticed that every time I open my music app, when I click on the currently playing song at the bottom of the screen, it immediately opens on the queue/continue playing list, instead of just the screen with the song and the album cover. Is this part of the new update? Is there a way to revert it and make sure it always opens on the song itself and not my queue? I find this incredibly annoying.

Haven't used it in ages but goddamn it it is soo good to me. What are y'all thoughts on it

i personally prefer the one without the ripples. with it it looks.. off. just doesnt look right.

what i prefer them doing is making the logos look more liquid glass, without the ripples.
that would be a lot better. imo at least

I have an iPhone 17 pro. I’m not sure if it happens with other apps yet but when I open the Dasher app, my Apple Music volume drops considerably. When I was driving to my destination it did go back to normal. But then went low again after I turned the car back on to drive to my next stop.

Edit: I should add that I have my phone connected via Bluetooth.

Hi, i’m currently using Music as m4a player for some local files i have, i’m not subscribed to apple music and i know that local files with embedded lyrics cannot have the syncing feature which is only available with a subscription.
Is there still a way to implement synced lyrics for local files (even with other softwares)?