When setting up a new iPhone, you will likely use the Apple Music app, especially since you get a three-month free trial. But when you buy an Android phone, is Apple Music the first music streaming service you can think of? Probably not. If you’re wondering what the Apple Music experience on the Samsung Galaxy S21 + is like, here it is.
Samsung Galaxy S21 + is one of the best flagship phones for 2021. With 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage, it runs Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888, has three main camera sensors and an integrated fingerprint reader. Although we are not here to talk about the specifications of Galaxy S phones, it is important to note that they are really excellent phones. Now, let’s skip to the Apple Music part.
First, the price is the same as you would expect on the iPhone: $ 9.99 a month with an individual account, $ 4.99 if you’re a college student and $ 14.99 for a family subscription for up to six people. If you are an Apple One subscriber, you can also use your Apple Music subscription on an Android phone.
After logging in with my Apple ID to the Android Apple Music app, he asked if I wanted to automatically send diagnostics to Apple. As with the iPhone, you can deny it.
Apple Music has the same five tabs on the Galaxy S21 + and the iPhone: “Listen now”, “Browse”, “Radio”, “Library” and “Search”. The only real difference I noticed is the menu button in the upper right corner, where I can access “Settings” and “Account”.
As I was writing this article, even with the dark mode enabled on the Galaxy S21 +, Apple Music was still in light mode. I thought Apple did not update the application with this function, but after opening the Settings tab, I was able to switch from Light Mode to Dark Mode and also set the theme as “System default”.
In addition, I had some problems updating my library. For some reason, it took a long time for all of my songs to appear and an error box appeared several times during the process. Eventually, when the library appeared correctly, I had no other problems.
Using the Apple Music app on the Samsung Galaxy S21 + was a truly Apple experience
As the first application that Apple introduced to the Android system was Move to iOS, I thought that Apple Music (its second application on the Play Store) might be out of features, but I was wrong. I can share a song on Instagram Story, see live lyrics, activate the infinite button to continue listening to similar songs and everything.
In addition, all of my favorite playlists are there, Apple Music 1, video clips, and I can follow friends, add their playlists and edit my profile.
And the best part of using the Apple Music app on the Samsung Galaxy S21 + was the OLED screen with a 120Hz refresh rate. Everything works very well.
As for the AirPods experience, well, it’s just an ordinary wireless headset for the Samsung ecosystem, but I found it very fun to use the Samsung Galaxy Buds +.
With the Galaxy Wearable app, I could use some features not available on AirPods, such as turning the volume up and down while pressing and holding one side of the buttons. Samsung’s wireless headsets also have a “read aloud notification” and “Find my headphones” feature, similar to AirPods
Of course, there are no blue bubbles on Samsung phones or FaceTime calls, but I was surprised that the Android version of Apple Music is really similar to the iPhone experience. This even includes bugs, such as problems with the playback count of your songs or some albums that appear with the wrong cover.
You also won’t be able to play a song perfectly on the HomePod using the Handoff with the Galaxy S21 +, but you can’t have everything, can you?
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