{"id":140734,"date":"2019-05-31T21:13:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T21:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=140734"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:51:22","slug":"apple-kills-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-kills-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple kills iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iTunes\"<\/p>\n

Apple<\/strong> will be announced the end of iTunes at today’s WWDC.\u00a0At nearly 20 years old<\/strong>, iTunes has remained a necessary service for many users.<\/p>\n

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What am I going to do?<\/h2>\n

\"ITunes<\/p>\n

After being the go-to Music app for years, iTunes has been divided into a new app trinity: Apple Music<\/strong>, Apple Podcast<\/strong>, and Apple TV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you used iTunes to sync your music to your iPhone<\/strong>, do not worry. You can still sync your music to your iPhone through Apple Music.<\/p>\n

In case you want to find a podcast but you don’t remember the name of it, Apple Podcast has a feature that allows you to find podcasts based its content.<\/p>\n

Apple TV has 4K HDR playback support, and also features your channel subscriptions similar to Prime Video<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Apple\u00a0Music is expected to have a feature that allows users to buy digital songs. However, Apple is rumored to stop having users download mp3s altogether in favor of a music subscription product.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Wrapping up<\/h2>\n

iTunes was a landmark product for Apple for years. It helped drive the sales for nearly half a billion iPods.\u00a0<\/strong>The departure of iTunes signifies the end of an era, and that Apple is ready to jump into the next generation of music.<\/p>\n

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Apple will remove iTunes later this year and will replace it with new apps for music, TV, and podcasts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9180,"featured_media":140740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2380,1066,2081,1581,1405,2080,1558,1476],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-140734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionitunes","tag-apple","tag-apple-watch","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-itunes","tag-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325936,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140734\/revisions\/325936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140734"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=140734"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=140734"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=140734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}