Crossfade Between Songs in Apple Music
If there’s one single feature that the iPhone has always inscrutably lacked, it’s crossfade support for audio. iTunes has had this capability since its release in 2003, and music fans have been clamoring over it for nearly as long. To make matters even more bewildering, Apple added this feature to the 2008 iPod nano but inexplicably never brought it to the iPod classic, iPod touch, or the iPhone — until now, that is.
Better 15 years late than never, the iPhone will finally be able to crossfade between songs in iOS 17. This will also come to the iPad with iPadOS 17, but won’t need to change in macOS Sonoma as the Mac has supported crossfade for 20 years.
The feature isn’t quite finished in the first developer betas; the switch is found in the Music section of the Settings app on both iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, but attempting to enable it crashes the Settings app entirely.