Apple Music dark mode and time-synced lyrics appear on Android before iOS

Apple has updated the Apple Music app for Android with two new features.

The app now includes dark mode, which uses a pitch black background for all the screens, a stark contrast from the otherwise all-white UI of the app. The dark mode can be enabled permanently from the settings or can be set to switch on with your phone's battery saver feature.

The update also brings with it time-synced lyrics, which scroll automatically in sync with the song. The lyrics screen has been overhauled entirely now and features large text that cover the entire screen.

If these features sound familiar, that's because they were announced as part of the iOS 13 feature set during Apple's WWDC keynote back in June. Both the features were demoed on stage and will be coming on iOS 13 later this year. Somehow, though, Android gets them first even before iOS, at least on some devices. We couldn't get them to show up on our device but multiple people have reported seeing it so far so it's definitely rolling out.

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