It’s still not rolled out to all Apple devices, but now subscribers to Apple Music Classical can listen online.
If it seemed a very long time between Apple buying Primephonic and finally releasing it as Apple Music Classical for the iPhone, it’s now been about as long again. And still, the service is limited to just a few devices — but now its full catalog is available through a web browser.
Apple Music Classical is available online at classical.music.apple.com, and subscribers can log in to listen. New users are prompted to try a one-month free trial.
During initial AppleInsider testing, some tracks took an unusually long time to start, or in a couple places actually failed to begin. Then, too, users can’t navigate away to other sections of Apple Music Classical without the current track stopping.
But being online means that, in effect, Apple has finally brought Apple Music Classical to the Mac. It isn’t a native app, but being available on the Mac via a browser means that now only Apple TV 4K lacks any kind of Apple Music Classical app.
It took Apple more than a year and a half to launch Apple Music Classical, and at the time it was solely on the iPhone. Two months later in May 2023, it launched on Android.
Apple only brought it to the iPad in November 2023, and that was the last device to get it. Unless you count the Apple Vision Pro, which lets users use the Apple Music Classical iPad app.
There has been one more outlet for the service before it became a web app, though. In November 2024, Apple Music Classical became available through CarPlay.
It’s hard to understand why the rollout of Apple Music Classical has taken so long, and why the Mac, Apple TV 4K, and Apple Vision Pro don’t have native apps. It’s especially peculiar because each of these devices does have a native Apple Music app.
Apple Music Classical is a subset of Apple Music, even though Apple treats it as a separate app or service. Subscribing to it means subscribing to Apple Music, although there are often extended free trials.
This story originally appeared on Appleinsider
