After the transfer, accessing audiobooks and podcasts only requires using Apple iTunes for Windows.
The official Windows releases of Apple Devices, Apple TV, and Apple Music have occurred. The company first released a preview of these stand-alone apps in January 2023. The Cupertino-based tech giant has now removed the Preview tags from these apps and is allowing users to download them for PCs, after they were still in the testing phase for a year. This was apparently done to lessen users’ dependency on iTunes, which served as a one-stop shop for all of these apps’ combined features, excluding streaming services.
Users with Windows 10 or later can now access these dedicated apps, according to an Apple Support page. Users can access iTunes purchases, listen to and manage their iTunes library, and use Apple’s streaming service with Apple Music. In a similar vein, Apple TV lets users stream content from Apple TV+ as well as watch movies, documentaries, and TV shows from their iTunes library. On the other hand, Apple Devices allows users to sync content from PCs and helps manage, update, backup, and restore their iPhone and iPad devices.
Windows 10 or Windows 11-based x86-based computers can run the Apple apps for Windows. Users can still use iTunes even if they don’t have the necessary operating system, though. Additionally, users downloading the dedicated apps need to download all three of them because doing so will result in a notification telling users to download the remaining apps first. After downloading every app, iTunes will only allow you to access podcasts and audiobooks. Apple Music and Apple TV apps both read content from the iTunes library, so the iPhone maker has also advised users not to remove their iTunes app.
Apple reportedly made the decision to divide iTunes in order to replicate how Mac apps operate. Additionally, the specialized apps provide a more simplified user interface along with newly added features that the older app might not have. Additionally, this enables the tech giant to provide Windows users with access to its streaming services.
Separately, MGIE (MLLM Guided Image Editing), an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered image editing tool, was just made available by Apple researchers. It can edit images with the help of straightforward text prompts. It can perform local edits, global optimization, and Photoshop-style edits, according to the preprint paper.