Apple's Music and TV apps for Windows are now available in preview - The Verge

Apple’s Music and TV apps for Windows person made an appearance, with preview versions of the apps being spotted connected the Microsoft Store by The Verifier (via MacRumors). LAst October, Microsoft announced they were coming to the platform, letting users yet ditch the aged iTunes app and Apple TV web subordinate for autochthonal bundle that is person to the acquisition embedded successful macOS.

There’s besides a 3rd preview of an app called Apple Devices, which is meant to fto you negociate and sync things similar iPods and iPads — functionality that’s presently handled by iTunes connected Windows and Finder connected the Mac. It also, apparently, contains immoderate references to Reality OS and xrOS, 2 codenames that person reportedly been associated with Apple’s virtual world headset.

The TV app is akin to the mentation connected macOS, though you entree antithetic sections via a database to the broadside alternatively than tabs connected the top. Using it, I was capable to ticker Apple TV Plus shows, arsenic good arsenic movies I’d purchased connected iTunes; it adjacent had a miniplayer mode. The Music app is simply a akin to the macOS version, though the iTunes store is ever truthful somewhat harder to access.

Two Verge staffers moving Windows 11 were capable to instal and tally the apps utilizing The Verifier’s links. You tin download them yourself here: Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple Devices.

When you unfastened the apps for the archetypal time, they pass that iTunes volition halt moving if you usage them and that you’ll person to uninstall the previews to bring it back. It does look similar the Music app brought implicit my euphony and settings from iTunes, but if you perfectly person to sync an iPod, it whitethorn beryllium worthy holding disconnected connected trying these apps retired until the Apple Devices app is retired of preview. MacRumors besides points out that you whitethorn privation to clasp disconnected if you usage iTunes for Windows to negociate oregon perceive to podcasts and audiobooks.

So far, the previews look to beryllium mostly unchangeable with a batch of the basal functionality I’d expect, though the apps bash accidental that “not each features whitethorn enactment arsenic expected.”