What's new in this version:
• New Home: the Songs tab opens on “Home” and no longer has chips. Instead there are shelves, most with their own “›”: Mixes for You, Recently Played, Songs, Favorites, Recently Added, Recent Releases, Your Top Songs, Rediscover, Audiobooks and Artists. Only the ones with content appear.
• New bottom bar: Songs, Albums, Playlists, Radio and Profile. Profile replaces Favorites and the gear: Account, Premium, Statistics, Services & servers, Settings and Help are all there. The orders that used to be chips are now in “Sort by”, inside the ⋯ (in Songs, the sort icon at the top).
• Albums, playlists and mixes open with a new header: the name on top, the artwork below and a row with the Shuffle, Play and download buttons. Samples and the ⋯ are at the top right, and the artwork opens with a zoom from its thumbnail.
• Albums and Playlists, in shelves: Albums has Recently Played and one for each connected service; Playlists has Recently Played and Shared with Me. Mark albums and playlists as favorites from the ⋯ and they come first.
• Samples, rebuilt: change songs by dragging the artwork sideways, pause by tapping it and close it by swiping down, like the player. The queue and the lyrics open where the artwork is.
• Normalize volume (Profile → Settings): lowers the louder songs so everything plays at a similar volume. It comes turned on and never raises the volume.
• Quality on mobile data (Profile → Settings): choose Original, High, Normal or Low for Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby and Plex when you’re not on Wi-Fi. On Wi-Fi and in downloads, always original.
• Radio, in sections and with a grid of stations. Mark your favorites and tap the flag at the top to change country.
• A refreshed first launch: the welcome is animated, no longer asks for language and country, and offers “I don’t have music yet”, which starts you off with radio stations from your country.
• Account, renewed: what you’ve saved in four boxes (Playlists, Favorites, Edits and Audiobooks) and who signs in with what.
• Batch downloads without jams: before downloading many songs, BlueMusic tells you the approximate size and the free space, and you can choose “Download what fits”.
• Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and pCloud use less data: artwork and durations are read once per version of the file, not at every launch.
• AutoMix (Premium) is turned on only with its button in the queue, next to Shuffle and Repeat. Settings → Playback no longer exists: your songs are analyzed on their own, silently.
• No silence between songs: when AutoMix is off, the next song starts right as the last one ends.
• Albums open and play in disc order, with “Disc 1”, “Disc 2”… when needed. In CarPlay too.
• Audiobooks: their own shelf in Home, with “Continue listening” and “Podcasts”. Turning a song into an audiobook, or the other way around, now asks first.
• Apple Watch: “For You” with recently played, songs, favorites, recently added and audiobooks; “Up Next” with Shuffle and Repeat; audiobooks sent from the iPhone, with back 15 s, forward 30 s and speed.
• CarPlay: the first tab is “Home”, with shelves and large artwork. Albums, playlists and artists open with a new header (iOS 26.4 or later).
• The sleep timer pauses completely, with radio too. With no network, skipping a song tells you and the music keeps playing. Opening BlueMusic no longer cuts off what’s playing in another app without you pressing play.
• Song lyrics: if the lyrics service doesn’t respond, the app tells you clearly. Help has search and guides by method.
• Large text, VoiceOver and Arabic work better on many screens.
• “Personalize” and the profile photo are gone. Pick the theme in Profile → Settings → Theme, and covers always use the artwork from your songs.