Our long national nightmare of not having a dedicated Apple Music app for classical music is nearly over. A new app–called, unsurprisingly, Apple Music Classical–has appeared in the App Store at long last. The app is currently only available for the iPhone and doesn’t officially arrive until March 28.
This has been in the pipeline for a while. Ever since Apple acquired the classical music service Primephonic back in August 2021, the company made two promises. The first was that a “significantly improved classical music experience beginning with Primephonic playlists and exclusive audio content,” would arrive (which exists, to a degree, in Apple Music). And the second was that “a dedicated classical music app … combining Primephonic’s classical user interface that fans have grown to love with more added features” would be coming to Apple Music subscribers. At the time, Apple promised the app would arrive by the end of 2022, but the year closed with no sign of this offering.