Another update? Apple makes iOS 15.5 official and distributes the first beta version for the iPhone to the developer community. Exciting: The manufacturer is already hiding references to a new app that users should expect soon. But what is it good for?

Apple

After the release of iOS 15.4 and the corrective update to iOS 15.4.1 with iOS 15.5 another update for the iPhone is in the starting blocks. The next round of system updates from Apple follows, as developers now also have access to pre-release versions of iPadOS 15.5, macOS 12.4, watchOS 8.6 and tvOS 15.5. A release of the updates for the general public can be expected in a few weeks.

Apple hides hints in iOS 15.5: New classic app for the iPhone is to come

Particularly exciting within the updates for the iPhones and iPads that are currently in progress hide hints of a new app – “Apple Classical”, a complementary offering to Apple Music. Specifically, there are two suspicious lines in the code of the music app (source: MacRumors).

“Open in Apple Classical”
“Open this in the new classical music app”

Both options imply the existence of the very new app that has not yet been released by Apple, but could now be announced in the wake of iOS 15.5. Basically an open secret, because Apple has already admitted to working on it.

Classical music was not yet the focus when Apple Music was launched:

The backgrounds

The background: In August 2021, Apple took over the classic streaming service Primephonic. Goal of the whole: Introducing a new and standalone classical music app. The user interface and the specialization of Primephonic in classical music are to be combined with Apple Music and functions such as lossless and 3D audio (spatial audio). Apple has not yet presented a detailed schedule, but development is obviously in full swing and could soon bear fruit. Of course, there’s no guarantee, it’s quite possible that “Apple Classical” will come later, maybe with iOS 16.