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Enter your Apple serial number now: mresell.macworld.co.uk mResell Macworld | mResell\indd 126 & 26/02/2015 069 | | | (003_004 Contents September" indd 3 || Macworld Contents SEPTEMBER 2015 5 12 16 20 22 26 28 32 34 36 38 52 54 Karen Haslam A busy month for Apple News Round-up of the latest Apple news Apple Music All your questions answered How to use Apple Music Get up and running with Apple Music How to get Apple Music Sign up to Apple’s streaming service Apple Music tricks Master Apple Music with these tips iTunes Match and Apple Music How the two services work together Getting started with Apple Music We walk you through the setup process Apple Music might help launch next big thing Why it doesn’t feel like a 1.0 product Banish Apple Music Remove the service from an iPhone Which MacBook? A look at each of Apple's laptops iWork special Get more from Apple's iWork suite Move from PC to Mac Edit images with Photos’ Adjust tools Terminal tricks Get more from Apple's Command tool SEPTEMBER 2015 - MACWORLD 3 28/07/2015 15:11 | 56 Reviews 56 Apple Music 58 Apple Music vs Spotify 60 QuarkXPress 2015 62 Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2016 63 Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2016 64 Help Desk Your tech questions answered 67 Photo library Consolidate your Photos library 68 Add Glances to an Apple Watch We reveal the world of Glances 69 Take a screengrab with an Apple Watch How to capture a screengrab 70 Apple Watch without the iPhone What can the Apple Watch do? 72 New and noteworthy Best new kit for your iOS device 74 Setup Apple Pay Get started with Apple Pay 76 Apple Pay security We look at the risks 78 Apple Pay on Tube Use the service underground 4 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015, | (003.004 Contents September’ indd 4 80 82 88 91 92 14 Funny things to ask Siri Have a laugh when using Siri Guide to iOS 8 settings Part One of our complete guide The plying game The world of App Store reviews. 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Tel: 020 7756 2800 Printer: Wyndeham Press Group Ltd 01621877 777 Distribution: Seymour Distibution Lid 020 7429 4000 'No material may be reproduced in whole or part without written permission While every care is taken, the publisher cannot be held legally responsible for any exors in arts, listings or advertisements ‘A material copyright IDG UK 2015, SIDS | tnc5s8 28/07/2015 | | By Karen Haslam | Spotlight A busy month for Apple With Apple Pay coming to the UK, Apple Music and beta versions of iOS 9 and El Capitan, it’s been a busy month pple has been busy over the past month. Not only has it released public beta versions of iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan, but it’s launched Apple Music, Apple Pay has arrived in the UK, and even updated its iPod line-up with new colours. Nobody can complain that Apple has been quietly twiddling its thumbs. People do complain, though. We've heard people grumbling that, having installed the beta versions of the as yet unreleased operating systems, their apps don't run the way they expect them to. What do you expect when you sign up as a beta tester? There wouldn't even be a beta program if the software wasn't going to be buggy — it’s your job to identify these bugs. Don't install beta software on your main device if there is a chance that you will need to run critical apps on it. Because the beta versions of the operating systems are likely to cause problems with your apps, Apple has stopped people who have installed the beta software on their device from leaving third-party app reviews on the Apple App stores. Something we think is a reasonable thing to do — it wouldn't be fair on developers if suddenly their app received a ton of criticism because it doesn't work in an unreleased operating system. And yet, people are now complaining that Apple has sidelined developers because they can't see if people testing the betas are having problems with their software. You can't have it both ways. Up next on Points of View is Apple Music, which has also been attracting criticism. It has the unfortunate status of being a bit rubbish when you first start using it because it needs to spend a bit of time with you to gather the information it needs in order to give decent music recommendations. After using Apple | (005 Karen Haslam.indd Music for a few days things improve, but how many people have stuck around for that long? It’s also not as intuitive to use as it could be, which has lead to a lot of confusion. For example, if you've been listening to some music and then later think you'd like to listen to it again, tracking down those tracks seems to be a little confusing for some people. We found out how to see what you've been listening to, by the way, just click on up next and scroll up through your history. It could certainly be more intuitive though. Another problem is people's distrust of the ‘three-month free trial’. The fact that during sign up Apple’s wording suggests you will be paying £9.99 per month is stopping some from starting the trial. But it is possible to uncheck the box that will cause your subscription to be auto renewed after three months. We show you how on page 12. Moving on to Apple Pay and the disappointment here is directed more at the UK banks than Apple. At launch only a handful of banks offered Apple Pay — Lloyds was absent, for example, even though it has confirmed it will join Apple Pay later this year. Barclays has been putting all its resources behind its bPay system and initially had no plans to support Apple Pay, but now, in an about turn, we're hearing that the bank will be supporting it after all. The other problem with Apple Pay is that, like any contactless payment system, it is limited by the standard, so you can't use it to pay for transactions over £20. That value is due to increase to £30 in September, but because Apple Pay is more secure than a debit or credit card ~ it relies on your fingerprint to work — it is hoped that eventually you will be able to spend any amount using Apple Pay on any contactless terminal. For now, only a few terminals will be able to handle larger transactions. On to the new iPods. Apple hadn't updated these since September 2013 so the updates are welcome, although perhaps the digital player has had its. day. It seemed logical that the update would help push Apple Music out to even more customers, though only the iPod touch is capable of connecting to the streaming service. There was one more thing that attracted criticism: Apple's financial results. Even though the company beat its estimates for its revenue and profit, and sold more iPhones and Macs than it had in the same quarter last year, Wall Street still wasn’t happy. Even worse, iPad sales declined again. As for the Apple Watch, Apple didn’t reveal exactly how many it sold, but it did reveal that it sold more Watches in the first nine weeks than it did of the original iPhone and iPad. Plus, research is suggesting that Apple already has 75 percent of the global smartwatch market. And yet people aren't satisfied. That's what happens when you are too good, everybody has such high expectations that even the best isn’t good enough. 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Notable holdouts include Barclays and, surprisingly, HSBC. The latter was expected to be one of Apple Pay’s launch partners, but the bank announced it wouldn't support the service until the end of July. Barclays has its own contactless payment service, bPay, but reversed its ‘opposition to Apple Pay on launch day with a supportive tweet that read: “We are really excited about the launch of Apple Pay and will bring Barclays debit cards and Barclaycard credit cards to Apple Pay in the future.” 8 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015 | (008_011 News September.indd 8 Aside from HSBC, six more banks will sign on with Apple Pay in the near future. Bank of Scotland, First Direct, Halifax, M&S. Bank, Lloyds Bank and TSB are listed on Apple Pay’s UK site as ‘coming soon’. The UK launch came nine months after the US launch on 20 October 2014, as part of the iOS 81 update. Apple Pay saw one million activations in its first three days, according to Apple. Retailers seem to have adapted to the service quickly, with many popular shops supporting it from day one such as Starbucks and Waitrose, as well as TfL. Apple announced its UK expansion plans at June’s WWDC. The rollout is a huge leap forwards in terms of gaining mainstream acceptance, but the fact that Apple couldn't line up all of the major banks in time could hinder its appeal. The service is available for owners of the Apple Watch, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in-store, while the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 users can use Apple Pay in apps. There's a limit on how much you can spend. Right now buyers can make purchases of up to £20 using the service, with that limit rising to £30 in September. Retailers seem to have adapted to the service quickly, with many popular shops supporting it from day one such as Starbucks and Waitrose 26/07/2015 13:02 | Apple overhauls iPod touch New iPods are available now, with a refreshed iPod touch starting at £159 BY ASHLEIGH ALLSOPP plans to kill its range of MP3 players. On 15 July, the company refreshed the iPod touch, nano and shuffle, though only the touch had a big overhaul. All three iPods are available in gold, dark blue and pink, though the iPod touch is the only model to get new features under the hood. The touch comes with iOS 8.4 and access to Apple Music, which isn't surprising, but the new version also adds a 128GB model to the line-up for the first time for £329. A 16GB touch costs | tseems that Apple has no immediate | (008_011 News September.indd 9 £159, a 32GB model will set you back £199, while the 64GB option is priced £249. All models are available in store, the iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2, going from 5Mp in the previous generation to 8Mp in the new version. Apple has added the Fitness, gaming, streaming, photography — the touch offers pretty much every great feature that the iPhone does without being a phone with Apple throwing in free next-day delivery if you'd prefer to order online. The iPod touch’s camera catches up with iPhone's M8 motion coprocessor for better activity-tracking and a new 64-bit A8 chip for powerful mobile gaming. That chip's faster GPU and CPU power Apple’s Metal technology, and combined with the new Retina display’s 1136x640 resolution, console-style iOS games will look like they're designed to on the iPod touch. Now that the company has embraced streaming, the iPod has to become much more than just a media storage device. Fitness, gaming, streaming, photography — the touch offers pretty much every great feature that the iPhone does without being a phone. It’s great for kids and teens who want in on the £14.99 Apple Music family plan, but aren’t allowed to own smartphones yet. Just look at the new touch marketing materials, which emphasise the improved FaceTime HD camera — perfect for taking selfies to share on social networks or with friends over Message. Expect the iPod touch to be a hit over Christmas. SEPTEMBER 2015 « MACWORLD 9 26/07/2015 13:02 | News || Apple's third quarter financial results $107 billion profit and a ‘great start’ for Apple Watch BY CAITLIN MCGARRY AND JASON SNELL pple’s third quarter was another bumper one for the tech giant. The Cupertino company made $10.7bn in profit on $49.6bn in revenue, compared to profit of $7.7bn on $37.4in in revenue in the same quarter in 2014. Apple beat its own expectations and Wall Street's. Analysts expected the company to pull in revenue of $49.4bn, while Apple forecast revenue of $46- to $48bn. The company didn’t beat its record-breaking holiday quarter (when it made $18bn in profit and sold 74.5 million iPhones), but it’s not exactly a fair comparison. This quarter is, however, always the strongest time for sales, and it always follows a new iPhone launch, when excitement is at its peak. Apple’s handset continues to be the company’s sales juggernaut, raking in $31.37bn on 47.5 million devices sold. Apple sold 10.9 million iPads and 4.8 million Macs. The Mac market isn’t growing spectacularly, but it is growing. As Cook put it, the Mac is showing 9 percent growth in a market that market-research firm IDC estimates contracted by 12 percent. “We had an amazing quarter, with iPhone revenue up 59 percent over last year, strong sales of Mac, all-time record revenue from services, driven by the App Store, and a great start for Apple Watch,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. “The excitement for Apple Music has been incredible, and we're looking forward to releasing iOS 9, OS X El Capitan and watchOS 2 to customers in the fall.” Apple sold 11 million iPads during the quarter, generating $4.5bn in revenue — not a bad business. But those numbers are down substantially from the same quarter a year ago, and that’s not a good sign. Sales of the iPad are still tailing off, not stabilising. But Tim Cook is still a believer. He even digressed during a question about 40 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015, | (008_011 News September.indd 10 iPhone growth to give one of his regular pep talks about why he thinks the iPad still has a strong future. In addition to Apple's iPad-focused enterprise partnership with IBM, this time the CEO was able to cite new iPad productivity features that will come with iOS. But in the end, its all about finding a time when people who already own iPads will decide it’s time to buy a new model. “I believe that the iPad consumer upgrade will eventually occur,” Cook explained, “because as we look at the usage statistics on iPad, it remains unbelievably great. | mean, the next closest usage of the next competitor, we're six times greater. And so these are extraordinary numbers. It's not like people have forgotten the iPad or anything, it's a fantastic product.” Apple Watch’s strong debut Analysts and journalists are dying to know how many Apple Watches the company sold, but those figures aren’t broken out. They're in the “other products” category, tucked away with the iPod, Apple TV and Beats headphones. Those products brought in about $1.8bn in the third quarter last year, and $1.7bn in the second quarter of this year. This quarter: $2.64bn. We can't say for sure whether the Apple Watch pulled in almost a billion dollars on its own, but that’s a pretty big jump in one quarter. Cook said: “We made the decision back in September not to disclose the shipments of the watch, and that was not a matter of not being transparent, it was a matter of not giving our competition insight [on] a product that we worked hard on.” But while Apple doesn’t want to reveal too much about how the Apple Watch is doing, Cook did say repeatedly that even with the company's inability to produce enough watches to fulfil demand, Apple sold more of the devices than the company's executives expected. “Sales of the Watch did exceed our expectations, and they did so despite supply still trailing demand a the end of the quarter... In fact, the Apple Watch sell-through was higher than the comparable launch periods of the original iPhone or the original iPad,” he said. “And so as | look at all of these things, we feel really great about how we did.” Knowing that everyone is hungry to hear about how the Apple Watch is doing, Cook tried to toss in a few more tidbits that provide information without giving away many details. Refuting reports that Watch sales started off well and then slumped, he said that June's sales were higher than those in April and May. Several times during the analyst call, Cook pointed out that Apple’s still learning about the Watch and hoping to build a product family that's successful in the long term. But Cook was excited that Apple has “learned a lot about the [Apple Watch] buying experience” and as a result, plans to expand their sales channel before the holiday. “We're convinced the Watch is going to be one of the top gifts of the holiday season.” 26/07/2015 13:02 | Public beta programme launches El Capitan and iOS 9 betas now available to download for free BY SUSIE OCHS 9 July, with public betas of OS X El Capitan and a final version of Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac shipping to Office 365 subscribers (read our reviews on page 62). Your iPhone and iPad aren't neglected, though — Apple also launched the public beta of iOS 9. A beta is a beta, so don’t get swept up in the excitement and forget that this software isn't final and could have bugs. You might want to think twice about putting it on your everyday iPhone or Mac. That said, developers have already seen several betas of both iOS 9 and Mac OS X El Capitan and there haven't been any major problems. The beta software programme started with OS X 10.10 Yosemite in 2014, and | t felt a bit like software Christmas on betas of OS X 10.11 El Capitan. iOS 9 is the first version of iOS that is available as a public beta — before you had to join the developer programme for $99 (£64) per year to get prerelease versions of iOS. The public beta lets you avoid that expense, and will make now it's providing ( Tip Matcmater Find Your ertect Hoseymonn © it easier to install the beta too. The final versions of Apple’s new Mac and mobile software aren't expected to arrive until later this year, but expect lots of updates to the beta until then. We've already seen an update to both operating systems in the programme, which arrived on 22 July, which included some tweaks and improvements. Office 2016 for Mac released But it's just for Office 365 - a standalone version will be released in September BY MARK HACHMAN fter years of treating the Mac as an also-ran, Microsoft has changed its tune: it formally released Office 2016 for the Mac on 9 July, even before it released it for Windows. The only catch? If you're not already an Office 365 subscriber, you'll be forced to wait until September. If you do subscribe to Microsoft Office 365 subscription service, obtaining the new software should be a snap. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook, with a Mac- like feel to it all. In the intervening five years since Microsoft last released a version of Office for the Mac (Office 2011), numerous other office suites have put down stakes on the Mac, not least of which has been Apple’s | (008_011 News September.indd 11 own iWork productivity suite. But Microsoft's argument is that, with Office, your work is connected and stored in the cloud — available on basically whatever platform you wish. Microsoft has also tried to differentiate itself from other office suites by adding intelligence to both its software and data sets that you can connect to — providing up-to-date sales data in a spreadsheet, for example, rather than just a moment in time. The new Office suite also addresses general shortcomings with the suite that Microsoft has struggled with, regardless of platform. A good example is real-time collaboration. The newest addition to the suite is OneNote, Microsoft's note-taking app for Windows and mobile platforms SEPTEMBER 2015 « MACWORLD 11 26/07/2015 13:02 | Features / appie music FAQ APPLE MUSIC HAS ARRIVED. HERE, WE SHOW YOU HOW TO SET UP THE SPOTIFY RIVAL AND ANSWER ALL YOUR APPLE MUSIC-RELATED QUESTIONS pple Music is now available as part of iOS 8.4. Over the following pages, we'll talk WA you through the setup process, explain how to decide which Membership Plan is right for you and help Apple Music get to know you. In addition to this, we've also put together a complete guide to Apple Music's features to help you make the most out of your free trial, as well as our top Apple Music tips. How to set up Apple Music If you've downloaded and installed iOS 8.4, you should notice that your Music app icon looks a little different. It's now 42 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015, | (012_015 Apple Music FAQindd 12 Lewis P white with a rainbow-coloured note rather than orangey-red with a white note. Tap that icon and you'll be greeted by the Apple Music logo, followed by a page that reads: “All the ways you love music. Allin one place. Unlimited access to over 30 million songs, a reimagined live radio station, and a personal connection to the artists you love.” Sound good? Then you can click ‘Start 3 month free trial’. If you decide you don’t want to use Apple Music, you can click ‘Go to My Music’ to access the music you have on your iPhone. 24/07/2015 10:56 | < Back Choose a Membership Plan Until automatic renewal is turned off from your Apple Music account your Apple Music membership will continue to renew. Learn more about Apple Music Individual £9.99/month after trial ends Family (Up to 6 members) £14.99/month after trial ends Family memberships use Family Sharing, When you join, you will have access to the Apple \Cloud Music Library to store your music library, ‘so that you can listen on all of your devices. ‘About Apple Music & Privacy Once you've tapped ‘Start 3 month free trial’, you'll be asked to select a membership plan. You won't have to pay for the first three months, but after that you'll be charged a fixed amount per month, depending on the plan you choose. If you don’t plan on using Apple Music past the free trial, you can turn off automatic renewal (we'll explain how to do that in a moment.) If you use Family Sharing, you can select the £14.99 Family Membership plan to share use of the service with up to six people. Most people, however, will want to pick the £9.99 Individual plan. Slightly confusingly, when you choose which plan you want to join, you'll see a message that read: Required. Do you still want to buy Individual [or Family if you chose that option] membership for £9.99?” You need to click buy, though you won't be charged despite what that message insinuates. You will get three months for free. “Confirmation Set up on a Mac This requires OS X 10.10.3 and is similar to the set up described above. If you have already set up Apple Music on your iPhone or iPad, you won't need to go through the setup on your Mac, and vice versa, as it will be linked to your Apple ID. | (012_015 Apple Music FAQindd 13 Confirmation Required Do you still want to buy Individual Apple Music membership for £9.99? Cancel Buy You need to enable the use of the iCloud Music library on all the devices you intend to use on it — you will see an alert when you first open Apple Music/ iTunes — if you originally said no, don't worry, there’s a way to enable it manually. On your iPhone, open Settings + Music and toggle on the iCloud Music Library option under the Library subheading. For iTunes, go to Preferences + General and make sure the ‘iCloud Music Library’ option is ticked, and click OK. Your music should start to sync soon after. @MuSsIC Other devices As well as the Mac, iPad and iPhone, you can listen to Apple Music on the Apple Watch and iPod touch. It’s also available via iTunes on the PC, and will be arriving on Apple TV later this year. There will even be an Android app arriving at some point this year. Get Apple Music for free In order to ensure that, when your three- month trial is over, you won't be charged, you'll need to go to your email account connected to your Apple ID and click on the email that you've received from the iTunes Store confirming your subscription. There is a link at the bottom of that email that reads ‘Manage subscriptions’ Click that, and if prompted, sign in with your Apple ID. There, you'll want to slide Automatic Renewal to ‘Off. Now, you won't be charged for Apple Music when your free trial runs out. If you can’t find the confirmation email, there's another way to access your subscriptions. Tap on the profile icon in the top left hand corner of the Apple Music app, tap ‘View Apple ID’, then tap ‘Manage Subscriptions’ and turn off the auto-renewal. It’s that easy. Choosing genres and artists The first thing you'll need to do once you've started your free trial is to tell Apple what music you like, so that the service can pick out recommendations Apple Music Membership Done YOUR SUBSCRIPTION Free Trial Ends 30 September 2015 RENEWAL OPTIONS Individu... Begins 30 September 2015 v £9.99 Family (1 month) £14.99 Automatic Renewal (on. | To cancel your subscription, turn off auto- renewal. Your free trial will continue until 30 September 2015. Apple Music Membership Done YOUR SUBSCRIPTION Free Trial Ends 30 September 2015 RENEWAL OPTIONS Individual (1 month) Family (1 month) Your free trial will continue until 30 September 2015. To continue this subscription, select a renewal option. You will be charged for any subscription you select at the end of the free trial period, SEPTEMBER 2015 * MACWORLD 43, 24/07/2015 10:56 | Features / Apple MusIC FAQ it thinks you'll enjoy. In the early days of Apple Music, there were complaints that the recommendations were off the mark, though we've found that over time they improve as Apple learns more about your tastes. You'll first be asked to choose genres you like from a series of pinkish bubbles. Tap them once to say you like them, twice to say you love them, and if you dislike them, tap and hold to remove them. If you make a mistake, you can press Reset in the bottom-left corner. You can always go back and change your choices later. Once you've finished, you'll see a similar page that now asks you to choose three or more artists that you like. You can double-tap the ones you like, while holding to delete proved to be a pointless task because artists we removed kept reappearing. You can tap more artists if you think that the selection chosen isn't to your tastes. Tapping ‘Done’ once you've chosen your favourites will take you to the For You page, where you can get started with Apple Music. Audio quality Lets talk about music quality — Apple Music boasts 256kb/s music streaming, which falls into line with the streaming quality of iTunes Match. While this level of quality is fine for most people and won't consume too much data, it’s worth noting that both Beats Music (ironically) and Spotify offer a slightly higher quality bitrate at 320kb/s. Share Apple Music with family and friends Apple Music offers two different membership plan options. There's an Individual plan for £9.99 per month, or a Family plan for up to six people, which costs £14.99 per month. It's worth noting that the three-month free trial is available for either membership, so you don’t have to commit to paying for the service until September or October (depending on when you signed up). In order to take advantage of the Family membership of Apple Music, you'll need to use Family Sharing, 44 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015, | (012_015 Apple Music FAQindd 14 < Back Q Choose three or more of your favourites Tap once on the the ones you love. Pre: More artists < Back Q Choose three or more of your favourites In the artists you like, or twice on More artists 5 @ which means you will be the named card holder on the account and any transactions in iTunes or the App Store will be paid by you. All six of the accounts need to be linked up to one credit card, which means any purchases can be shared. But, of course, it means whoever owns that card will have to pick up the bill for any purchases. So yes, technically you can use the Family membership of Apple Music with friends, but they'll all be able to buy apps, TV shows, books, music and more using your credit card, so it's not ideal. Save music to listen offline Streaming such a huge library of music to your iPhone sounds like a great idea, especially for those of us that are conscious of the amount of storage available on our devices. However, there's also a downside to music streaming, especially over a cellular connection with data limits. There is, however, a workaround available, as Apple offers the ability to ‘offline’ as many songs and playlists as you want for the times when you have no data connection. If you want to save a song or playlist for offline use, tap ‘.” next to the song/ playlist and tap ‘Make available offline’. Depending on how many songs are being downloaded, it can take a few minutes for the process to complete, but you should be able to see the download progress from within the Apple Music app to give you some idea of its status. It's important to note that even though the music is being saved locally, that doesn't make it yours. It is DRM-locked unless you buy the track. You won't be able to export the files for use anywhere else (video projects, burning CDs, and so on), and if your Apple Music subscription is cancelled, all the files will be deleted from your devices. Start playing tracks that are similar to a song you like You can create your own radio station based on a favourite song or artist. Find the song you like and tap “..’ and then select Start Station. Find out what you were listening to in Apple Music If you have been listening to music all afternoon, you may later think that you would like to download some of those tracks. When we first started using 2772015 17:54 | Apple Music, we didn’t think it could display your listening history. However, it does. You just need to click on the list icon beside the forward and rewind buttons to go to the Up Next screen — scroll back and you will see all the tracks you have listened to. Another thing you can do if you hear a track you love, is mark it by tapping on the heart icon. Unfortunately, you can’t locate all the tracks you marked in this way. Or at least if you can we haven't discovered it yet. Strangely, if you have a Smart Playing called Recently Played, you'll find some of the tracks you have played on Apple Music there, but not all of them. We can't figure out why only some of our recently played tracks are showing up here. Build a playlist You can build playlists with both the music you already own and tracks you find on Apple Music. Start by creating a new playlist. If you are on your iPhone you'll need to go to Playlists and then tap New. Find the track you like and tap on «... to get to the menu and select Add to a Playlist. You can then locate the playlist you set up and add it. How much data does music streaming consume when using 4G? We ran tests at the Macworld UK office and found that when using a 4G connection, the data consumption for music streaming was around 1.65MB per minute, which equates to around 49.5MB of data per half an hour. Interestingly, we also discovered that streaming Apple's Beats 1 radio station via a 4G connection uses more data than standard music streaming. We found that Beats 1 uses around 2.61MB of data per minute, which is equal to around 78.3MB of data per half an hour. We're not too sure as to why streaming Beats 1 uses more data as Apple streams all its content at 256kb/s, but it's definitely something to keep in mind if you've got a capped data limit on your contract. The difference between Beats 1 and Apple Music radio Under the Radio menu of Apple Music, you have access to both Beats 1 anda number of other radio stations. Beats 1 is more of a traditional station, with DJs broadcasting 24/7 in over 100 countries around the world. The main three Beats 1 DJs are ex-BBC Radio One host Zane Lowe from Los Angeles, Hot 97 DJ Ebro Darden from New York and Rinse FM's Julie Adenuga from London. It offers a combination of music, interviews with musicians and discussions of popular news. Apple Music radio stations are slightly different. They aren't traditional stations with a DJ presenting, but rather playlists of songs that you can listen to and skip/ pause the music. In the past (with iTunes Radio), Apple has relied upon algorithms and beat-matching to produce playlists, however with Apple Music radio stations, the company has taken a different approach. The tech giant has employed a number of staff to curate the playlists themselves, handpicking songs from the vast library available to them. The end result is a better blend of music that flows between songs without making you think, “why is that being played?” Do you need to pay for a subscription to Apple Music to listen to Beats 1? The good news is that anybody with an Apple ID can access both the Beats 1 radio station and Apple Music’s radio stations for free, without the need for a subscription. There is, however, a slight catch: Apple Music’s radio stations will be ad-supported to non-Apple Music subscribers, and the number of skips will be limited. This doesn’t apply to Beats 1 The good news is that anybody with an Apple ID can access both the Beats 1 radio station and Apple Music's radio stations for free | (012_015 Apple Music FAQindd 15 @MuSsIC though, as it’s one station for both non- subscribers and subscribers alike. Add songs from Beats 1 to your playlists As long as the song is still being played, you can tap the More button (three dots) and tap ‘Add to My Music’ or ‘Add to a Playlist’ to quickly add it to your music collection. Request a song for Beats 1 If you've taken a look at the Beats 1 schedule, you'll probably have noticed that there are shows where you can request songs to be played on the air. Apple has set up a number of phone lines around the world that you can call to request music. The UK number is 0800 802 1238 and is free to call. When you ring the request hotline, you'll be greeted with an automated voice prompting you to say your name, where you are from, what you are up to and what song you want to hear. This recording will then be played on the air if your request is chosen. Transfer playlists from Spotify to Apple Music While there is a way for Beats Music users to quickly transfer their music library to Apple Music, the same can’t be said for the likes of Spotify, Tidal or any other music streaming provider. As it stands, the only way you'll be able to access all your Spotify playlists on Apple Music is if you manually search for each song and rebuild them yourself. Does an Apple Music subscription give you access to the entire iTunes catalogue? Unfortunately not — while there’s a whopping 43 million songs available for download on iTunes, only (and we use that term lightly) 30 million songs are available on Apple Music. That said, the library is still huge and will most likely feature your favourite songs - there are only a handful of noticeable missing artists, including The Beatles and Prince. It even features Taylor Swift's new album, 1989, which isn't available on any other streaming service. SEPTEMBER 2015 - MACWORLD 45, 24/07/2015 10:56 | all HOW TO USE APPLE MUSIC APPLE MUSIC IS APPLE’S NEW MUSIC-STREAMING SERVICE. HERE IS HOW TO USE APPLE MUSIC TO STREAM iTUNES TRACKS IN THE UK, GET RECOMMENDATIONS AND DISCOVER NEW MUSIC, AND CONNECT WITH THE MUSICIANS YOU LOVE. By Ashleigh Allsopp pple Music is Apple's new music streaming service. Aiming to take on the likes y \ of Spotify and Tidal, it arrived on 30 June as part of the iOS 8.4 update It comes in the form of a complete overhaul of the Music app, and being a completely new service, it takes a bit of getting used to. Here, we talk you through all of Apple Music’s features in our complete guide The ‘For You’ section of the Apple Music app, which is accessible by clicking the heart icon in the bottom-left of the screen, is where Apple presents music and videos that it thinks you will love, based on what's in your music library and the genres and artists you chose during the initial setup process. Here, we'll talk you through the For You section bit by bit, to help you get to know it. 46 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015, | 016 019 How to Use Apple Music.indd 16 Improve your recommendations When | first looked at Apple Music’s For You, | was unsure how well it had worked — it was suggesting Justin Bieber’s greatest hits and an old Shakira live album, both of which do not appeal to my musical tastes. However, when revisiting the app the following morning, Apple Music seemed to have the right idea. It suggested a Chilled-Out Pop playlist that was perfect for getting me through the morning commute, introduced me to several bands that I'll be checking out, and some interesting-looking albums. Plus, you can tap and hold on a suggestion for a menu that contains the ‘Recommend Less Like This’ option, which will help improve your future recommendations. Whenever you see the little heart icon, tap it to let Apple know you like that song, album or playlist. This will also help the service get to know you and should improve the results. You won't need to launch the Apple Music app if you're listening to a song you like when your phone is locked. The heart icon will also appear on the Lock Screen, which you can tap at any time to let Apple know you love it. +t How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Sn ad 23/07/2015 17:23 | ® For You Q INTRO TO THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS ‘A Hollywood heartthrob moonlights as a , ‘metal-tinged arena-rocker 1]. 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Listen to playlists and albums from For You Let's say, for example, that you want to listen to that aforementioned Chilled-Out Pop playlist, just tap the little grey play arrow on that ‘card’. You'll then see an additional bar appear along the bottom, showing what song you're listening to and allowing you to pause it. You can tap that bar to see more details and controls How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Florence + The Machine ~ How Big, H... Start Station Add to My Music Show in iTunes Store Share Song... Add to a Playlist... Cancel | 016.019 How to Use Apple Musicindd 17 for the song itself. There, you can choose the more option that the three dots and three lines symbol, and rearrange the playlist in your Up Next queue. Tapping the three dots on the right of that bar along the bottom will bring up a menu of options that you'll appreciate if you're enjoying the current song. Other options include: * Start Station will create a Radio station based on the song you're listening to, where you'll hear other songs from that artist and related artists. + Add to My Music means you'll see that song when you go to the My Music section of the app. You'll be able to listen to it any time you choose from there. If you've already got the song in My Music, this option won't appear. + Show in iTunes Store will allow you to purchase that song if you decide that you want to. + Share Playlist or Share Song will bring up the share menu, so you can send it via AirDrop, Messages, Mail, Twitter, Facebook and more. + Add to Playlist lets you add the song to a playlist you've already created. You can take a closer look at the playlist (or album) by tapping on its title. You'll now be taken to list of songs that are in that playlist. If you really enjoy a particular playlist or album, you can add it and all of its songs to the My Music library by tapping the “icon. This will become a tick once they've been successfully added. If you change your mind, tap the tick again to remove it from My Music. Tapping the heart icon will let Apple know that you like that playlist, helping it to tailor the ‘For You’ section further. Then there's the share icon, followed by the ‘More’ icon. Tap this and you'll be able to tap ‘Play Next’ to add it to the top of your Up Next queue, ‘add to Up Next’ to add it to the bottom, ‘Add’ or ‘Remove from My Music’, ‘Make Available Offline’ for offline listening when you're unable to connect to Wi-Fi, and ‘Share Playlist’ again We'd recommend spending some time exploring the ‘For You’ section and playing around with it. Offline listening As mentioned above, you'll find the Make Available Offline option when you tap the More icon on any playlist, song or album. Tap it, and you'll find that the songs download to the My Music section of the app. SEPTEMBER 2015 « MACWORLD 47 23/07/2015 725 | Features | How TO USE APPLE MUSIC © Mm=) Downloading 6 songs. RECENTLY ADDED > When you're offline, you'll find the songs you've downloaded in the My Music section, either in Playlists or Library depending whether it's a playlist or not. You can search for songs you've downloaded to listen to offline, tap the magnifying glass on the top right of the My Music section of the app. You can test whether the song is stored for listening offline by turning on Airplane mode in the Control Centre and swiping up from the bottom of the screen If you can play the song when Airplane mode is on, it'll be available any time you're out of Wi-Fi or 3G/4G range. You can also make sure that the songs showing in My Music are only those available to listen to offline by clicking Albums and then turning ‘Music Available Offline’ on (it'll be green). New The New section is where you'll find the latest music and charts. When you first visit New, it'll be set to All Genres, and will show you a featured slider at the top, followed by New Music, Hot Tracks, Recent Releases, Top Songs, a Spotlight, and Discovered on Connect. Find playlists to suit your mood, activity or favourite genre Scroll down and you'll see three options: Apple Music Editors, Activities and Curators. This is where you'll find playlists you can listen to. Choose Apple Music Editors for the tracks Apple's dedicated team are enjoying. It’s split into different genres, including Alternative, Blues, Children’s, and more. Activities is where you'll find Spotify- like playlists that are designed to suit your mood or, you guessed it, activity. 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Finally, there's Curators, which is where you'll find playlists put together by some big names in the music industry including Rolling Stone, NME, Vice and Mojo magazine. Back on the All Genres New page, scrolling further shows even more options. You'll find ‘Discovered on Connect’ videos, more spotlights and playlists and The A List, which contains playlists of the very best of each genre according to the Apple Music team. If you're looking for a particular genre, click All Genres at the top, and select the one you want to listen to. You'll see a similar New page now, but it'll be tailored to the genre you've chosen. You'll already know how to listen to, If you select Playlists along the top of the Apple Music ‘My Music’ main page, you'll find your Recently Added playlists at the top 48 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015 | (016.019 How to Use Apple Musicindd 18 save and favourite playlists, songs and albums from the New section now that you've explored For You's features. Radio Now we come on to the Radio section of Apple Music, which is where you'll find the new Beats 1 Radio station, as well as various other Radio Stations, which are really just never ending playlists. Beats 1 Radio First off, we'll take a look at the star of the show, Beats 1 Radio. If you're wondering why it's called Beats 1, that’s because Apple acquired Beats last year. In fact, the whole of Apple Music uses lots of Beats expertise. Beats 1 Radio is an always-on radio station that broadcasts worldwide from three cities: London, Los Angeles and New York. There are three main DJs: Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden and Julie Adenuga. When you tap the Radio tab in the centre of the navigation bar of the Apple Music app, Beats 1 will be the first option you get. Tap listen now and a bar will pop up along the bottom of the app to show you what song is currently playing. And just like when you're listening to any other playlist, album 23/07/2015 725 | or song in the app, you can tap the song to see the associated artwork and tap the heart to let Apple know you like it. Tap the three dots to add it to My Music and listen again later. In addition to songs, Beats 1 will also feature interviews with artists and more. Other radio stations Other radio stations available are slightly different. They don't have DJs and aren't live, so it’s really an endless playlist that you can listen to. You can also skip tracks you're not enjoying. Preset stations you can listen to include Charting Now, Pop Hits, Workout Anthems, Chill, Kids and Family, and lots more. Additionally, any time you're listening to a song, you can click the three dots in the bar along the bottom and choose Start Station to create a Radio Station that uses that song as inspiration for other tracks and related artists you my be interested in. Connect The next section of the Apple Music app is Connect, which is the social feature of the service. There, you can follow artists and bands, and see when they share photos, videos, messages and more with their Apple Music followers. You can’t post your own content, but you can comment on, like and share anything that an artist has posted. To like it, tap the heart. The number next to the heart represents how many others have liked that post. Tap the speech bubble to see the comments that others have left, and to add your own that the artist might see. The share button brings up the usual share menu where you can send the post via Message, Mail, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Follow and unfollow artists You will automatically follow any artists in your My Music library. To edit who you follow, tap the icon in the top left corner which looks like a head — that's where you'll find your Apple Music account details. Here, you can tap Following and choose who you want to unfollow. You can also turn off Automatically Follow Artists, or tap find more artists to see recommended artists that Apple thinks you might like to follow in Connect. My Music Finally, we've come to the My Music section, the fifth and final option you'll find along the bottom navigation bar. We've already talked a bit about it, as it links in to the other sections of the app, but let's take a closer look. Tap Library, and you'll see your Recently Added songs, and by default you'll be shown albums in alphabetical order by artist. Tap on Albums to bring up the option to change to artists, songs, music videos, genres, composers and compilations to help you find what you're looking for. There’s also the aforementioned option to show only the music that is available offline, which is any music stored on your device, including the tracks you've saved for offline listening. If you have only added a song from Apple Music to your Library, you'll only be able to listen to it when you're connected to the web. Tapping the three dots next to any song will bring up a series of options including Play Next, Add to Up Next, Start Station, Show in iTunes Store, Make Available Offline (if it isn’t already), Show in iTunes Store, Share Album, Add to Playlist and Delete. And, of course, tapping on a song will play it. If it's an album, you'll go to the album track list. If you've already got the complete album in your Library, you'll see them all there. If not, you'll see just the song you've added. With Apple Music, ® Cancel @MuSsIC you can tap Show Complete Album and listen to others. You'll also get recommendations, including more by the album’s artist and a ‘You May Also Like’, section. If there's a particular song you have in mind that you want to listen to, you simply need to tap the magnifying glass at the top and type the name of the song that you want to listen to into the search bar. You can choose to search the whole of Apple Music, or just your My Music library. Tapping the clock icon will show recent searches, and you'll also see Trending Searches, which can be another good way to discover new music. If you select Playlists along the top of the Apple Music My Music main page, you'll find your Recently Added playlists at the top, as well as a list of all your playlists. Tap ‘All Playlists’ to change the view — you can choose to show only Apple Music playlists that you've added to your library, or only the playlists you've made yourself. You can also show only music available offline here. Your account The last thing to talk about is your Apple Music account. Tap on the icon in the top left corner of the app to go to your Account details. You can add a profile picture and choose your nickname by tapping on your name at the top and then tapping Edit. Here, you can also go back through the setup process of choosing artists you like if you think your recommendations leave a lot to be desired. You can also edit the artists you're following there. Q Tay, ® Cancel ‘My Music ) (Apple Music Trending Searches nelly james bay let it go now thats what i call summer mumford & sons alt j bad blood ARTISTS Taylor Swift ” ALBUMS > | Begin Again - Single yy The Hunger Games (Songs fr. i Love Story - Single SEPTEMBER 2015 - MACWORLD 19 | (016.019 How to Use Apple Musicindd 19 & 23/07/2015 725 | Features | How To GET APPLE MUSIC SIGN UP TO APPLE’S NEW MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE fyou are interested in accessing Apple Music this article explains how to sign up to the service. You'll also need to check your iOS device has iOS 8.4 and your Mac has iTunes 12.2. iOS 8.4 Go to General * Software Update and tap ‘Download and install’. It’s important to free up some space prior to updating as some update files can be quite large. You'll also need to have either (at least) 50 percent battery left on your device. iTunes 12.2 Apple Music is also available on your Mac, via the iTunes 12.2 update. To get it, open the Mac App Store, and click Updates in the bar along the top of the window. You should see ‘Updates are available for your computer’, one of which will include iTunes 12.2. Click Update and when your Mac restarts, you'll find Apple Music in the iTunes app. Select a membership plan There is no ad-fuelled free-tier option unlike Spotify, but Apple will instead offer 20 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015 | (020 How to get Apple Music.indd 20 By Ashleigh Allsopp a free three-month trial, after which you'll have to pay £9.99 a month to use the full streaming service. There’s also a family plan, which is £14.99 per month. When you first launch Apple Music, you'll have to choose which subscription model you want to start your free trial. You'll see a pop- up that reads “Confirmation Required. Do you still want to buy Individual Apple Music Membership for £9.99?” We think this is a bit misleading, but you will not be charged for the first three months and you can cancel your subscription at any time. You'll get an email confirming that you've started your three month's free trial and that you will not be charged until it is over. You can turn off auto-renewal to make sure you do not get charged by clicking Manage Subscriptions at the bottom of that page and turning Automatic Renewal to off. € Account Choose a Membership Plan ‘Unt automate tenewal ture ot rom your Apple Muse account your ‘Ano Muse membership wl conti toe smn more about Apple Muse: Individual Fy = Family (Up to 8 members) Fay mamaranp ae Far Shaves. 23/07/2015 1651 | TOP TWEAKS FOR MAC OS X YOSEMITE [GUIDE TO THE Macworld . 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The easiest way to do this is using Connect to follow Beats 1's curators, such as hosts Ebro Darden, Julie Adenuga, and Lowe, or a specific artist's show, like the Mixtape Delivery Service. Within hours of airing, the You can also look for Beats 1in the search bar, and playlists from Darden, Adenuga and Lowe will pop up in the results under Playlists, though you'll miss out shows hosted by your favorite artists. Alternatively, open the Radio tab, tap the big Beats logo (but not the Listen Now button), and then scroll down past the schedule to see the Featured Shows, and tap any you find interesting to Follow them and see the past shows as playlists. Re Sar CHa) ATS sar si) Stream a song to wake you up < Back ‘Sound Cancel Edit Alarm ‘Save | = & Many of us already use our iPhones as alarm clocks, but with OE Apple Music, alerts just got a whole lot more fun. 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The app will then have used that information to create some pretty on-point playlist, artist, and album recommendations in the For You section. But you can keep fine-tuning your preferences with every song you listen to, so that one day Apple Music will know exactly what you want to hear. Use the heart button liberally on songs and playlists, so Apple Music knows what you like. Hate something recommended to you in For You? Give it an extra long press and more options will appear. At the bottom, tap on Recommend Less Like This. Eventually, your recommendations will be perfectly on point. Or just pick new favourites If you didn’t do a good enough job selecting your preferred genres and artists when you first launched the Music app, you can give yourself a second chance. Go to the For You tab, then tap the silhouette icon in the top-left corner to open your account page. Then just tap ‘Choose Artists for You’, and you'll get to do the whole thing again. Remember, tap once to like a genre or artist, tap again to really like it, and tap and hold to make the ‘ones you don't care for disappear. Slide the display back and forth with your finger, and on the artist screen you can tap ‘More Artists’ to see additional choices. & || @MuSsIC Make friends with Siri UA Nery Start Station ‘Add to My Music = “~* Make Available Offline Waiting Game ete - ett ni Show in Tunes Store Share Album. 2 “« i] » a Add to a Playlist. oe 4 Recommend Less Like This “ 7 i, =e) Cancel are ae Tereey) perme Sa vr Account one | | < Back one Susie Ochs choose Ati For You Folowing View Appte 1D Sign Out Siri makes Apple Music infinitely more useful in all sorts of surprising ways. Here are a few of my favourite Siri capabilities when it comes to managing my tunes. When you're listening to a song, say, “Play more like this one,” to create an immediately personalised playlist tailored right to your mood. You don’t even have to know the name of the song you want to listen to. Just ask Siri to play hits from a certain year or that one song from that one TV programme, and she knows what to do. Siri can shuffle play any playlist or album you want her to. Siri can add songs to your collection. You don’t even have to have the Music app open for Siri to work her magic, which is my favourite part. She can be your personal DJ without any effort on your part, which is a feature no other streaming service can beat. SEPTEMBER 2015 MACWORLD 23. 24/07/2015 09:47 | | TT & || Features / APPLE MUSIC TIPS & TRICKS Personalise playlists with photos Pens 2: ae | Your playlists have different names (lassume), but they all sortof |" =| look the same, marked by an icon with a grid of album covers | indistinguishable from the next. Now you can customise each soundtrack with a photo instead, but only when you're first creating a playlist. Go to My Music » Playlists + New and tap on the Camera button in the top-left corner. From there you can add an image from your Camera Roll or take a new photo. If you want to change it later, go to the playlist, tap Edit, and then tap the little camera icon that appears over the playlist's cover image. Apple Music also uses the primary colour in your photo to customise your playlist’s background colour, which is a nice touch. QWweRTYUIOP ASDFGHJKL * zx CVBNM | sale | OS : pane sont S Hee] cane ser sexe] Music in loud spaces € settings Music Music co 5 x 5 ¢ If you're trying to block out the world and jam to your tunes in perme music om peace, the Music app has a setting for easier listening in loud ighow Ace Manto © Raa spaces such as trains. Go to Settings + Music + Playback + EQ : ‘ imawoe and tap the Late Night option. 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Then you can drag the songs into a new order by pressing the hamburger button (three lines in a stack) and dragging them up or down, or swipe right-to-left on a song you don’t want to hear and tap Remove. Note that this doesn’t alter the playlist permanently. If you've saved it to My Music, it'll still appear in its original order, with all the songs present. If the curator changes it later, it'll update in your collection automatically. 24 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015 | (022_025 Apple Music Tips & Tricks.indd 24 & 2410712015, oo | | | TT & || @MuSsIC ware ——wa—<retare] [SANs wm —vetor==] The history of music =a Apple Music has a hidden history list. Just open the Up Next queue, which shows you what's coming up, and then scroll up to see what you've already played. Music you've added to your collection recently can be seen in the My Music tab, which has a “ures set Tameens| Recently Added section at the top of both the Library and . pope Muse Paya Playlist views. 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(owe if you get an error that you can’t listen to Apple Music without — a —— = Wi-Fi, go to Settings + iTunes & App Store, and turn on the : ra switch to Use Cellular Data. —— © Strangely, there’s also a switch to allow the Music app to oe © | se cellular data in Settings + Cellular that should do the o| (2 Si © | same thing - and that menu even shows you how much Notes © | data the Music app has consumed since the iOS 8.4 update, oe ©) | orwhenever you last reset your stats. — Cer © = os © Ce] iw © : Caper © ea: © My hops ©] |B rm © App Store | |B Passbook @| SEPTEMBER 2015 - MACWORLD 25 | (022_025 Apple Music Tips & Tricks.indd 25 & 2410712015, oo | | Features / appie music FAQ ® | How itunes Match and Apple Music work together THE RETURN OF DRM ON YOUR MUSIC FILES fyou have an iTunes Match subscription, and you've updated to the latest version of iTunes (12.2), you may have had a bit of a surprise. There is scant mention of iTunes Match in the iTunes interface, and it can be confusing trying to figure out how iTunes Match works in the new iTunes landscape. Ifyou've signed up for Apple Music, then it can be even more confusing, since & Apple Music also matches tracks the way iTunes Match does. Here’s an overview of how these two services work in iTunes and on iOS, and how they work together. While iTunes Match lets you download your music files and play them anywhere, Apple Music adds DRM to your files. Independent but complementary On the membership section of the Apple Music website, Apple states that “Apple Music and iTunes Match are independent but complementary.” It says little more, and when you look at the latest version of iTunes, it’s not clear how iTunes Match works. The first thing to understand is that Apple is no longer using the name ‘iTunes Match’, at least within iTunes. It is now part of the iCloud Music Library, which includes the following: + Purchased tracks (previously called iTunes in the Cloud) + Tracks matched or uploaded with iTunes Match + Tracks matched or uploaded with Apple Music Turn on iCloud Music Library in iTunes. 26 MACWORLD - SEPTEMBER 2015 | (026_027 iTunes Match & Apple Music.indd 26 + Streaming tracks that you've added to My Music, if you have an Apple Music subscription click General, and check iCloud Music Library. On iOS, open Settings, and then choose Music * iCloud Music Library. You can subscribe to either iTunes Match or Apple Music from the Account menu in iTunes. If you've already signed into these services, you won't see the iTunes Match and Apple Music menu items. While iTunes Match and Apple Music seem to offer similar features via iCloud Music Library, there are some important differences. Here's how each one works. You may not have all of the above. If you don’t have an iTunes Match subscription and haven't signed up for an Apple Music free trial, then your iCloud Music Library will only contain purchased tracks, if any. The iCloud Music Library, therefore, contains multitudes. To make sure that you can see these cloud-stored tracks in iTunes, choose iTunes * Preferences, General Preferences o> BeoOr General Playback Sharing Store Parental Devices Advanced Library Name: | Pequod | Show Apple Music iCloud Music Library ( ) Access your songs and playlists from all your devices. Views: @ Use custom colors for open albums, movies, etc. Show list checkboxes List Size: Medium Ratings: Stars & Loves Notifications: When song changes Keep all song changes in Notification Center When a CD is inserted: Show CD Import Settings... Automatically retrieve CD track names from Internet us Cancel & 24/07/2015 10:36 | @ iTunes File Edit View Controls QGeetgg Window $ Help Apple Music. iTunes Match. Update Genius Turn Off Genius Authorize This Computer... Deauthorize This Computer... Deauthorize Audible Account... Sign In... Create Apple ID... Check for Available Downloads. iTunes Match With an iTunes Match subscription, iTunes matches your library, uploads any unmatched tracks, and makes your music available on multiple devices through the iCloud Music Library. If you have low- quality tracks, iTunes Match ‘upgrades’ them, allowing you to download 256kb/s AAC files without DRM. You can also download your files to any computer linked to your iTunes Match account, and listen to your music on any linked iOS device. It has a limit of 25,000 tracks, not including iTunes Store purchases. Apple Music While the main feature of Apple Music is streaming from Apple’s massive collection of music, the service also matches your music library and uploads tracks that aren't in Apple's library. Plus, there’s a 25,000 track limit, as with iTunes Match, but Apple’s Eddy Cue has said that this limit should be increased to 100,000 when iOS 9 is released. (It’s not clear whether the increase will also affect iTunes Match, but it’s likely that both services will get the boost.) There is, however, one essential difference between the two services. While iTunes Match lets you download your music files and then play them anywhere, Apple Music adds DRM to your My music library is a mess, | have an iTunes Match subscription, and many of my matched or uploaded tracks now show as Apple Music tracks, and contain DRM when I download them. This is an album | bought from the iTunes Store in 2009; its tracks show as either Matched or Apple Music, but they should show as Purchased files. This means that if you rip a CD and it's matched or uploaded to iCloud Music Library via Apple Music, and you download the files, say, on another Mac, you will only be able to play those files as long as your Apple Music subscription is active. If you delete your originals or lose them, then you won't be able to access files without DRM. As such, it is essential that you keep backups of your original files if you use Apple Music. If you have both an iTunes Match subscription (£21.99 per year) and an Apple Music membership (£9.99 per month), then you get files without DRM. The problem is that Apple is not making a distinction between Apple Music files that you download for offline listening — this is a key feature of Apple Music — and files that belong to you, which are matched or uploaded. In addition, there seem to be bugs right now, causing many previous matched files to show as Apple Music files, and to contain DRM when downloaded, even for users with iTunes Match subscriptions. 1% Hard Times in New York Town (12/22/1961) <> Apple Music 2:19. Bob Dylan 2 4 He Was a Friend of Mine (11/20/1961) Matched 4:02 Bob Dylan 3 ¥ Man On the Street (11/22/1961) ® Apple Music 4:57 Bob Dylan 4 No More Auction Block (Late 1962) Matched 3:02 Bob Dylan 5 House Carpenter (3/19/1962) D Apple Music 4:09 Bob Dylan 6 Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues (.... Matched 8:44 Bob Dylan 7 ¥ Let Me Die In My Footsteps (4/25/1962) Matched 9:92. Bob Dylan 8 ¥ Rambling, Gambling Wile (4/24/1862) Matched 4:12 Bob Dylan 9 Talkin’ Hava Negeilah Blues (4/26/1962) Matched 0:51. Bob Dylan 10 ¥ Quit Your Low Down Ways (7/9/1962) @ Apple Music 2:40 Bob Dylan 11 Worried Blues (7/9/1962) ® Apple Music 2:39 Bob Dylan 42. v Kingsport Town (11/14/1962) © Apple Music 5:29 Bob Dylan 13 ¥ Walkin’ Down the Line (1963) ® Apple Music 2:62 Bob Dylan 14 Walls of Red Wing (4/24/1963) Matched 8:03 Bob Dylan 48 & Paths of Victory (8/12/1963) © Apple Music 8:18 Bob Dylan 16 Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues (10/26/1963) <> Apple Music 4:25. Bob Dylan 174 Who Killed Davey Moore? (10/26/1963) @ Apple Music 3:09 Bob Dylan 18 __¥ Onlya Hobo (8/12/1963) D Apple Music 8:90 Bob Dylan @MuSsIC Subscribe to either iTunes Match or Apple Music, or both, from this menu. Many users are seeing this problem with matched files showing as Apple Music files (with DRM), and this is presumably a bug that Apple will fix. But, for now, if you download any of these files, they will be locked with DRM, and you'll only be able to play them as long as you have an Apple Music subscription. Which is best? The main issue is the integrity of your iTunes library. If you already have an iTunes Match subscription, I'd recommend you keep it, whether you plan to subscribe to Apple Music or not. If you want to continue using iTunes Match as such, it is now part of iCloud Music Library. If you also want to use Apple Music, that, too, is part of iCloud Music Library. If you don't use iTunes Match, and only want to pay for Apple Music, then be aware that your original music files will have DRM added to them if you redownload them. Make sure you have a reliable backup of your library. SEPTEMBER 2015 - MACWORLD 27 | (026_027 iTunes Match & Apple Music.indd 27 & 2410712015, 1006 | | Features | cet starTED WITH APPLE MUSIC GETTING STARTED WITH APPLE WE WALK YOU THROUGH THE SETUP PROCESS By Caitlin McGarry and Susie Ochs re you ready to rock? Apple Music is. After its unveiling at WW0DC in early June, the music streaming service dancing — Update to iOS 8.4 Usually | recommend you do this the smart way, which is to tether your iOS device to your Mac, open iTunes, click your its name in the toolbar, do a full encrypted backup, and then apply the iOS update. That way if anything goes wonky during the installation, you'll have a backup to restore to. But as of right this second, iTunes is telling me iOS 8.3 is the latest version, while my iOS device's Settings app is offering me the update to iOS 8.4. So go ahead and update over-the-air if you're not seeing the update in iTunes — usually you'll be just fine. went live in July. This handy guide will walk you through the setup process, so you'll be up and running — and in no time. eterna |< account IC Choose a Membership Plan igi . Individual Unlimited access to over 30 milion ‘songa, remagined ive radie sation, land a personal connection tothe artats Family (Up to 6 members) 28 MACWORLD : SEPTEMBER 2015 | 028_031 Get Started Apple Music.indd 28 MUSIC < General Software Update iOS 8.4 Apple Inc. 218 MB This update introduces Apple Music—a revolutionary music service, 24/7 global radio, and a way for fans to connect with their favorite artists —all included in the redesigned Music app. iOS 8.4 also includes improvements for iBooks and bug fixes. Open the Music app and start the trial Open up the Music app, and you'll see that Apple has placed its music streaming service front and centre. If you aren't interested, there’s a button to tap to just go to your regular music library. But we're going to tap ‘Start my free trial’ instead. The next screen has you pick a plan to kick in once your trial is over: £9.99 a month for individuals, or £14.99 per month for families (which requires the use of iCloud Family Sharing). You won't be charged now, but when your three-month trial runs out, Apple will charge the credit card you use for iTunes purchases, Sign in and tap OK. Pro tip: To keep Apple from charging you, make sure you disable the subscription from kicking in when the trial ends. 24/07/2015 15:26 | | TT & || @MuSsIC [<Back Dore @) Tell it what you like The Music app has tabs across the bottom. Tap the ‘For You’ tab at the far left, and you'll see a screen filled with red bubbles listing musical genres. Tap the genres you like (the bubble will grow), and tap twice on the genres you really love (the bubble grows even larger). If you hate something, tap and hold it to make it go away. If some of the bubbles start to nudge offscreen, you can drag the whole group around with your finger to access them again. Tap Next at the top-right to move ‘on. The next screen shows artists in your favourite genres. Same drill: tap once to like, twice to love, hold to disappear. If you're like me and haven't heard of half of them, tap More Artists to get a new set (the ones you've already tapped will stick around). Tap Done when you're finished! See what Apple suggests For You The For You tab will now be populated with the artists, albums, and curated playlists Apple Music thinks you'll enjoy. The more you use the service, adding music to your collection, tapping the heart to favourite tracks and just listening, the better Apple Music’s recommendations should get. When you get to the bottom of the list, don’t despair. Pull & down on the screen to get more suggestions. Baffled by some of its choices? Tap and hold a recommendation for a hidden menu that contains a ‘Recommend Less Like This’ option. yn ety 70, St Wonder had own etn wh DW Sr Soc, Doron Yo oo & o- m ‘Don't You Woy "Bout 8 Thing ——= | Field Eo Navigate around while the music plays When you're in the Now Playing screen, there’s a little downward-facing arrow at the very top-left. Tap that to minimise the player, and you can navigate around the rest of the app. Tap over to the New tab. When you see something you want, tap it to see more details. The “’ sign adds that item to your collection. The heart isn’t a shortcut to a favourites list — it helps Apple's algorithm learn your tastes to improve its recommendations. At any time, you can tap the player, which is a strip just above the row of tabs at the bottom, to expand it again. SEPTEMBER 2015 - MACWORLD 29 | (028_031 Get Started Apple Music.indd 29 & 2410712015, 1525 | | | TT & || Features GET STARTED WITH APPLE MUSIC Add songs to your queue The ellipsis button next to each song and album holds the most options. This is where you can add a song or album to your Up Next queue. (Play Next puts it at the top of that queue, while Add to Up Next just puts it at the bottom.) o or To see or reorder your Up Next queue, tap the button onthe = | fay Next Now Playing screen that looks like a list. The Up Next screen has = Good Vibrabona 3 maui oe. little buttons to Add more songs, Clear the queue and Resume Hips Sembee Lvs o Guigaien foe lin the last thing you were listening to. To reorder the queue, tap the hamburger icons by each song and drag them up or down. ‘Song for You Fi Remove trom My Music Make Available Offine Show in Tunes Store Share Album. Add to a Playlist Cancel Save some music for offline listening A\so in the ellipsis menu, you can add items to your collection, and optionally save them for offline listening. (Only items in your collection can be saved for offline.) This puts a copy of the files inside the Music app on all of your devices, so you don’t have to be connected to listen — crucial if you're going to take a cs Eas plane trip, or you just don’t want your streaming to hit your & data plan while you're away from Wi-Fi. Play Next Play Next i ‘Add to Up Next ‘Add t0 Up Next Music you've synced for offline listening appears with a tiny Mato Music an iPhone logo on the corner of the album art. If you need some | Mule Aveliole OFune eres storage space, find the album you want to delete in the My Share Plays. acne Hearn Music tap, tap the ellipsis button and select Remove Downloads. A Recommend Less Like This Share Artist. Cancel Cancel Share with friends The ellipsis menu has sharing options too, letting you send the link to a song or album to your friend via AirDrop, Message, email, Twitter, Facebook, and so on. Strangely, you can’t have a list of friends who also have Apple Music, and send stuff to each other via Connect. Rdio and Spotify, for example, have in-app friends lists, so you can keep track of what your friends with excellent taste are listening to, send each suggestions right inside the app, and even subscribe to and collaborate on each other's playlists. Cancel Twitter Listen to 1989 by Taylor Swift ‘on @AppleMtusi| QwertyYyulope ASDFGHJKL Cancel 30 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015 | (028_031 Get Started Apple Music.indd 30 & 2410712015, 1525 | | Feel the Beats Apple’s Beats 1 radio station features 24/7 programming, with live DJs and interviews. You can't skip tracks on Beats 1 — it works just like terrestrial or satellite radio, all you can do is turn it on or off. Tap the Now Playing strip to see the name of the band and song, and you'll be able to tap a heart to favourite the track. Tap the share button to share either the song or the station, and tap the ellipsis button for the rest of the options. You can start a new streaming station based on that track (that would be a Pandora- @MuSsIC style station where you can skip tracks), or add them to the My Music collection, to a playlist... or, of course, buy them on iTunes. The Radio tab has Pandora-style radio stations with no DJs, too. You are allowed to skip tracks, heart tracks, add them to playlists or My Music, share them, or see them in the iTunes Store. Following ‘Automatically Folow Artists @-: io-— -_ Done © # nists ¥ (2) Apums F songs [Music Videos HA corres 2 Composers Al Piyists ) compiintons Bie ek Pavers My Playlists ‘Show Music Available Offine ‘Show Music Available Offine Cancel | (028_031 Get Started Apple Music.indd 31 ‘Show in iTunes Store ‘Share Station. Share Song. Add to a Playlist. Cancel Connect to your favourite artists The Connect tab is a one-way stream of content from artists on Apple Music. (Again, you can’t have a list of your own friends to interact with, like you can in Spotify and Rdio.) By default, it follows all the artists in your iTunes library and anyone you add to your My Music collection. That could be a lot of artists, so tap ‘See who you're following’ in the banner up top for a switch to turn off the auto-follow behaviour, as well as a list of all the artists you're following, in case you want to unfollow any. If you're hungry for more, tap ‘Find more artists and curators’ for Apple’s recommendations. It's early days, so Connect doesn’t have a lot in it yet. Right now you'll see Twitter-style updates, mostly artists asking you to listen to their tracks or albums. Hopefully as the service matures, the Connect tab will get more compelling. Your music is still here The My Music tab holds your music — everything you have purchased in iTunes, and everything you already had synced to your iPhone before you updated to iOS 8.4 — along with everything you add to the My Music collection from elsewhere in the Apple Music app. It's separated into Library and Playlists sections, and you can make a new playlist by tapping the tiny New button below the Recently Added strip. The Library tab defaults to sorting by artist, but you can tap Artists to change the view to Albums, Songs, Music Videos, Genres, Composers and Compilations. If you're trying to save bandwidth, flip the switch to only see the music that's available for listening to offline. The Playlists tab lets you tap the word Playlists to change the view to just Apple Music playlists, just the playlists you've made yourself, or just whatever's synced for offline listening. SEPTEMBER 2015 « MACWORLD 34 & 24/07/2015 15:25 | Features / apple MUSIC MIGHT LAUNCH NEXT BIG THING Apple Music isn’t r volutionary, but it might help launch the next big thing APPLE MUSIC IS HARDLY THE WORLD'S FIRST STREAMING SERVICE. IT MIGHT NOT EVEN BE THE BEST. BUT IT ALSO DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A 1.0 PRODUCT pple Music might be the most un-Apple product the company has ever released. The people who rushed to download iOS 8.4 just to be among the first to sign up for the three-month free trial didn’t find the revolutionary and pioneering features that usually accompany Apple releases. If you've ever used Spotify or Beats, Apple Music is pretty much exactly what you would expect from a modern streaming service: Lots of songs, unique playlists, and genre-based radio stations. That's not to say it's bad. Apple has exploded onto the streaming landscape with an excellent music client that elevates the user interface and experience, but truth be told, there isn’t much about the core concept that you can't get elsewhere. A little Spotify, a dash of | Heart Radio, and a few cups of Beats: Apple Music is more of an amalgam of the best parts of other services than a uniquely Apple product. With the exception of a few high-profile exclusives like Dr. Dre's The Chronic and Taylor Swift's 1989, the Cupertino streaming service follows the model established by its peers and integrates it with your owned music library. But none of that is going to matter to the tens of millions of people who will 32 MACWORLD « SEPTEMBER 2015 | (032_033 Launch Next Big Thing.indd 32 By Michael Simon Besides a few exclusive albums and its integration with your personal library, Beats 1 is the only major feature that sets Apple Music apart from its competitors. become paying subscribers once their free trial ends at the end of September. With Music, Apple is muscling its way into a very established market and using its significant cash and clout to build an instant customer base. It's a different sort of tact for the company, and one that could very well change the way it approaches internet services, not just for streaming music but for its whole cloud platform. Ahead in the cloud Apple has never been known for its internet services. From MobileMe to iCloud, Apple has tried for years to implement a seamless, integrated suite of internet services that combines the power and versatility of Dropbox, Gmail, and Flickr under a single roof. It's been a hit-or-miss affair, with spotty roll-outs and glaring omissions that don't stack up to its would-be competitors. It's different with Apple Music. Last May, the tech giant made a big splash by buying the Beats brand for upwards of $3 billion, an out-of-character purchase for a company generally more interested in snatching up smaller companies with far less global reach. But Beats represented 26/07/2015 12:55 | ‘seo ATT = TEI AM oe < Back Done Setting up your ‘For You' profile in Apple Music feels like Beats Music’s setup process everything Apple needed to jump into the streaming business with both feet: an influential brand, a well-connected charismatic executive, and a strong service. This isn’t Google buying Nest or Facebook buying Instagram — in about a year’s time, it was able to turn one of the least-popular streaming apps into a major Apple-branded service that comes preinstalled on every iOS 8.4 and Mac OS 10.10.4 device. Consequently, Apple Music won't experience the same growing pains that iCloud has. Apple could have built a streaming service from the ground up — and | have no doubt the company toyed with such an idea — but it saw an opportunity with Beats to hit the ground running. With a solid foundation already in place, Apple can focus on the things that will set its music service apart instead of ironing out deep wrinkles or even convincing people of its value. Look and listen Few people will remember that iTunes wasn't a home-grown product either. The idea of a desktop MP3 player wasn't | 032_033 Launch Next Big Thing.indd 33 exactly a novel concept at the time of iTunes’ release, but it wasn't nearly as ubiquitous as today’s streaming services. When Apple bought SoundJam MP it was an under-the-radar purchase that barely made a ripple. Back in 2000, few people could see the future of digital music like Steve Jobs — he wasn't just buying a desktop MP3 client, he was putting a down payment on the future. With Beats, Apple made an equally large investment, paying a sizable sum to get into a game that is already teeming with major players. Apple Music won't be a slow build like iTunes was: the ecosystem is already in place, and Apple's biggest advantage over its competitors is the little things it can add to make the experience more seamless. Siri integration alone is reason enough for Spotify users to make the switch, and the excellent discovery features will surely keep people tuned in as well. But the killer component is the easy integration with your existing library, a feature that | suspect will be iOS-only. If Android users miss out on the iTunes Match feature, Apple Music loses some of its lustre, and | suspect it’s a ploy to woo. Moto and Galaxy owners once the app lands (right around the time they start reading all those glowing reviews for the latest iPhone in the fall) Apple might have overpaid for Beats based on strict market value, but what it brings to the company is priceless. Buying Beats eliminated years of stumbles and hiccups, and puts Apple Music on an even plain with the best services out there. If it succeeds — and there’s no reason to suspect it won't — | expect Apple to apply this business model to the other internet services it offers, snatching up companies that do Here's the album ‘1989’ by Taylor Swift (shuffled)... @MuSsIC it right instead of trying to go it alone. It famously made a nine-figure offer to Dropbox back in the file storage service's early years, but Apple was a different company then. Steve Jobs was forever reluctant to buy established, big-name companies, and it’s hard to imagine him signing off on a purchase as big as Beats. But today’s Apple is far more aggressive, and has no problem with spending money to keep its customers happy. | could see Apple making similar splashy purchases to fill other holes in its portfolio of products. With more money than it can possibly spend, Apple can easily afford go on a shopping spree without taking on much risk at all. Even multi-billion dollar acquisitions of companies such as Twitter, Netflix, or Square are no longer off the table. Any one of them would work extremely well under Apple's umbrella, expanding its ecosystem and bringing new worlds of entertainment and communication into the fold. Buying in Where the iTunes Music Store fundamentally changed our relationship with music, paving the way for the proliferation of Spotify, Rdio, and others, the most groundbreaking thing about Apple Music is how it was born. The tech giant studied the landscape and bought a company that had the pieces it needed — it may have momentarily skated to where the puck was, but it was only to hit it further up the ice. With the launch of Apple Music, Apple has made a product that's distinctly theirs by building on the groundwork Beats had already laid. It’s more than a rebranding: the core technology may be built on the strong foundation it bought, but the way it is incorporated into the existing services is Apple’s gambit. All things being equal, | don’t know why an iPhone user would stick with Spotify. Apple Music is certainly a very nice service. But its eventual paying subscribers won't just be paying for millions of songs. They'll be investing in the next step. Siriis a pretty big selling point, too. SEPTEMBER 2015 * MACWORLD 33. 26/07/2015 12:55 | Features / ganisH APPLE MUSIC How to (mostly) banish Apple Music from your. iPhone or iPad YOU GET TO KEEP BEATS 1 AND THE STREAMING STATIONS, BUT THE FOR YOU AND NEW TABS WILL DISAPPEAR. (CONNECT CAN GO OR STAY.) PLUS, YOU CAN GET THEM BACK ANYTIME By Susie Ochs fyou've been left unimpressed by the new Music app, you may be wondering whether you can return to the version of the app you had in iOS 8.3. Unfortunately, you can’t. On the plus side, you can scrub a lot of the Apple Music stuff out by turning off the app. To do so, head to Settings, scroll down to Music, and tap that for the Music app’s settings. You'll see a ‘Show Apple Music’ slider. Turn it off. 307 ART > isa TORRES < Settings Music APPLE MUSIC Show Apple Music [ @ Milions of songs, expert recommendations, and your entire music library. Allin one place, This won't delete your Apple Music account or destroy your Apple Music collection, saved playlists or anything. The service will remain visible on any other device you have it enabled on. If your trial is already over and you're now paying monthly, you'll still be charged monthly. You just won't see Apple Music in that Music app anymore. Instead, you'll see another refreshed Music app, with the same icon. inside, the For You and Now tabs will have gone, 34 MACWORLD - SEPTEMBER 2015 | (034 Banish Apple Music indd 34 and with them the bulk of Apple Music. The tabs along the bottom include My Music, Playlists, Radio, and Connect. (Ifyou turn off Connect in Settings + General + Restrictions, you lose the Connect tab, but nothing replaces it.) My Music tab The My Music tab shows your iTunes purchases and songs you have already synced to your library. It defaults to Album view, with a side-scrolling Recently Added list on top. Tap the word Albums to switch the view to Artists, Songs, Music Videos, Genres, Composers, or Compilations instead. Aswitch here labelled ‘Show music available offline’ removes any iTunes in the Cloud purchases and only shows music stored locally on your device. Playlist tab Over in the Playlist tab, you'll find your playlists, as well as any Apple Music playlists you already saved to your collection (since you didn’t really quit Apple Music, you just banished it). The Radio tab has some Apple Music The Radio and Connect tabs stick around, although you can hide Connect in Settings + General + Restrictions goodness too, namely Beats 1 radio, along with a list of other stations. Sadly, you can't save these as favourites like you could before. Ifyou miss Apple Music, it's no problem. Just head back to Settings + Music to turn it back on. You can toggle Apple Music on and off in iTunes too, in iTunes + Preferences + General. 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It's ideal for the budget conscious, and for anyone who is always on the go, doesn't want to be bogged down by a regular-size laptop, and needs a computer that’s more versatile than an iPad. What are the specifications? The four MacBook Air models share the same 1.6GHz dual-core Core iS processor. They also have 4GB of RAM and integrated Intel HD Graphics 6000 technology. Apple claims nine hours wireless web use and 10 hours of iTunes movie playback of battery life for the tlin models. The 13in Airs offer 12 hours for both wireless web and iTunes movie playback. The main difference between the laptops is storage. The £749 tin option and the £849 13in Air have 128GB of flash storage, while both the £899 ‘lin model and the £999 13in system have 256GB. How do I connect stuff? The Air has built-in Wi-Fi for connecting to a network, and Bluetooth for wirelessly connecting a mouse or other peripheral. If you want to By Roman Loyola connect to an ethernet network, you'll need a USB ethernet adaptor. Thunderbolt 2 is its high-speed connector. This laptop also has a pair of USB 3.0 ports, which can work with devices that use USB 2.0. If you have a FireWire 800 drive, you'll need to buy a Thunderbolt-to- FireWire adaptor (£25). How fast is it? The = Air is capable of handling everyday tasks, such as sending and receiving email, browsing the web and using office applications. You can even use it for editing short videos, or for working with JPEGs from your iPhone or point-and-shoot camera. The flash storage also helps its performance. For example, the MacBook Air outperforms the 13in non-Retina MacBook Pro, which uses a hard drive (SSDs for the 13in non-Retina MacBook Pro are available for an additional cost). Macworld’s buying advice: The MacBook Air is a great affordable laptop for anyone who does general-purpose work and needs a lightweight system for the daily commute, for example. Since it’s at the lower end of Apple's laptop line-up in terms of price, you wor't find the Retina display that's in other MacBooks. Also, you can't easily upgrade the storage after purchase, so you should buy the model with the largest amount of storage you can afford. MacBook What is it? The MacBook is Apple’s latest entry-level ulta-portable. It's actually lighter than both the 11- and 13in Airs and smaller than the 13