Apple Music launches new "AutoMix" feature that blends tracks together using AI

Apple Music has launched a new feature that blends and mixes tracks together using AI.

AutoMix was introduced as part of the recent release of iOS 26, and allows Apple Music users to create "unique transitions" from one song to the next, "just like a DJ."

While its primary competitor Spotify launched its "crossfade" function in 2012, that feature only allows for a blend at the beginning and end of tracks; Apple claims that AutoMix goes one step further.

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Instead, the feature utilises Apple Intelligence to incorporate "time stretching and beat matching to deliver continuous playback and an even more seamless listening experience."

The introduction comes just two months after Apple launched its "DJ with Apple Music" update, which allows users to utilise their catalogue on programmes such as rekordbox, Serato DJ Pro, Engine DJ and Algoriddim's djay Pro.

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The update also made Apple Music's library available on hardware devices such as AlphaTheta's OMNIS-DUO and XDJ-AZ, and other all-in-one systems from Denon DJ, Numark and RANE DJ.

You can find out more about the new features introduced in Apple's iOS 26 update, here.

Megan Townsend is Mixmag's Deputy Editor, follow her on Twitter