Mike Peterson
Apple is rebuilding the Apple Music app for macOS Monterey 12.2 as a fully native application based on AppKit — something that it has already done with the Apple TV app.
On Thursday, Apple seeded the first macOS Monterey12.2 beta to developers. As first noted by Twitter user Luming Yin, the beta contains a new version of Apple Music backed by AppKit instead of web views.
The difference should be a faster experience that's both more fluid and more responsive. This is because the macOS Catalina version of Apple Music retained the iTunes backend, which relied on web content displayed within the app. The AppKit viewing will do away with that, making Apple Music a fully-fledged native application.
Additionally, Yin said that a similar rebuilding of the Apple TV app for macOS would be taking place. However, 9to5Mac found that the Apple TV app in macOS Monterey 12.1 — released on Monday — has already been rebuilt with new AppKit.
Along with the changes to the Apple Music app, macOS 12.2 also features smoother scrolling in Safari on MacBook Pro models with ProMotion. There also appears to be signs that Apple is still working on Universal Control in the background, though the feature is not currently available to test in the beta version.
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This makes me really happy as I've had nothing but issues with Apple Music on Monterey so far. I'm hoping this clears things up.
Oh no, it’s probably gonna be assigned to the Zune team. Oh wait, it can’t get any worse than it is, so maybe it’s a good thing.
Well imagine that. An Apple app for Macs that’s actually native to the Mac. I could never have imagined such a thing.
If this resembles in any fashion the woeful Apple TV app on IOS/iPadOS, it will be a massive downgrade. Apple TV's woeful search function and overall GUI had to be developed by rubes. Apple can do so much better.