As previously reported, Apple is phasing out iTunes. Today at Apple’s 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi announced that the iTunes app will be discontinued in its current form. In its place will be three media streaming apps: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple TV. In a statement, Apple clarifies that through the Music app, users will continue to “have access to their entire music library, whether they downloaded the songs, purchased them or ripped them from a CD.” The iTunes Music store will still be available.
Federighi added there will no longer be a prompt to sync whenever an iPhone or iPod is plugged into a Mac. Instead, the sync options will be located in the sidebar in the Mac’s Finder app. The change will coincide with the introduction of OS X 10.15, code-named Catalina, slated to be released in September alongside the next version of iOS and the new iPhone.
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This article was originally published on Monday, June 3 at 3:26 p.m. EST. It was last updated at 3:56 p.m. EST.
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