Podcasts that you subscribed or added to iTunes will be in the new Podcasts app, and audiobooks will be in the updated Apple Books app. Similarly, music and TV shows that you purchased or rented from iTunes will transition into the new Apple TV app – which is where you’ll go to buy or rent movies and TV shows in the future. That goes for playlists and smart playlists you’ve created in iTunes too. Instead, those files will just be migrated into the new Apple Music app.

That means you don’t have to worry about losing any music you purchased or imported into your iTunes library. You’ll still have access to all your mediaĪpple says that the new apps will organize your media files just like the same apps on iOS. Here’s what Apple says that will look like. The platform’s features will still exist on macOS Catalina – they’ll just be spread out across the different apps, similar to how they are on iOS. Though iTunes as we know it will be no more, you don’t have to worry about losing those iTunes playlists you made back in the summer of 2006. Apple announced on Monday that it would phase out iTunes on its upcoming operating system in favor of three new apps: Music, TV and Podcasts.

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