January 10, 2023
UPDATE
Apple celebrates a groundbreaking yr in leisure
Apple’s Eddy Cue displays on the yr in companies
2022 was a groundbreaking yr for leisure. In some unspecified time in the future over the previous yr, you in all probability found a brand new app, a brand new track, a brand new TV present or film, or recreation. An expertise that made you chortle, taught you one thing new, or helped you see the world in a brand new method — and moved you to share it with others.
It’s outstanding how a lot nice content material is at our fingertips; that’s a testomony to the extraordinary work of creators worldwide. By no means earlier than have we loved prompt entry to extra cinematic unique sequence, extra participating movies, extra world music, extra artistic apps, extra important journalism, and extra immersive video games and sports activities — regardless of the place you’re, throughout all of your favourite gadgets.
At Apple, now we have the privilege of partnering with creators of every kind, whereas constructing services that allow much more creativity. Our mission has all the time been to counterpoint folks’s lives and to go away the world higher than we discovered it, and we all know that takes greater than technical ability. It requires main with our values in all the pieces we do.
We imagine that our services ought to be made for everybody. We imagine that privateness is a basic human proper, and that our highest obligation to our prospects is safety. We imagine {that a} tradition the place all people belongs can drive innovation, and that we should get up for the change we need to see on the earth.
Once we began Apple TV+ a couple of years in the past, we did so to inform tales that replicate our broader humanity. And whether or not it was CODA profitable the Oscar for Greatest Image or Ted Lasso profitable back-to-back Emmys for Greatest Comedy, now we have seen, in so some ways, the validation of this sort of storytelling and the sturdy want for extra of it.
And imagine me: There’s way more to come back. Moments to anticipate, get pleasure from, and replicate upon. Moments that can have us leaping up with pleasure or on the fringe of our seats, or that make us need to stand up and dance. Moments that may create lasting reminiscences and produce us nearer to at least one one other.
Final week marked my thirty fourth anniversary at Apple, and I’ve by no means been extra enthusiastic about what’s forward. This new yr of Apple companies will likely be our most enjoyable but — and we are able to’t wait to share it with you.
— Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vp of Providers
This yr, extra folks than ever visited the App Retailer to find and obtain the world’s most artistic and cutting-edge apps and video games in a secure and trusted setting. Powering a strong world financial system, the App Retailer connects builders of all sizes, from rising solo creators to giant worldwide groups, with greater than 650 million guests throughout 175 areas every week. Builders promoting digital items and companies on the App Retailer have earned greater than $320 billion for the reason that platform’s 2008 launch, marking one other yr of document earnings. And this appreciable quantity represents only a fraction of the general commerce the app ecosystem facilitates. All year long, new apps and video games delivered recent methods to attach. Modern social app BeReal, which garnered world recognition for deepening genuine connections amongst household and mates, burst onto the scene, whereas Apex Legends introduced its fast-paced hit battle royale recreation to iPhone, and Dot’s Residence, which spotlights systemic injustices by means of considerate interplay, used the facility of code to affect tradition — incomes their builders 2022 App Retailer Awards. Reflecting how apps have offered customers ongoing companies for all the pieces from productiveness to leisure to social connection and past, subscriptions on the App Retailer drive a good portion of greater than 900 million paid subscriptions throughout Apple companies. Charts of the yr’s most downloaded apps and video games can be found on the App Retailer.
Apple Arcade continues to be a standout recreation subscription service that includes award-winning and extremely rated titles, from new releases to beloved favorites from the App Retailer. Subscribers have limitless entry to an evolving assortment of over 200 video games, with enjoyable new content material added weekly. The service additionally provides distinctive advantages gamers love — together with no advertisements or in-app purchases — and help for Apple’s excessive privateness requirements. In 2022, the Apple Arcade catalog expanded with greater than 50 thrilling new titles, together with Warped Kart Racers, Jetpack Joyride 2, Gibbon: Past the Bushes, Wylde Flowers, and Cooking Mama: Delicacies! The service additionally launched over 300 updates and expansions for a lot of current hits, together with Sneaky Sasquatch, The Oregon Path, Mini Motorways, LEGO Brawls, and Offended Birds Reloaded.
2022 was a giant yr for Apple Music, which now options over 100 million songs, representing practically the complete historical past of recorded music. That’s 100,000 instances “1,000 songs in your pocket.” And with Spatial Audio, Apple Music set a brand new high quality bar for music streaming, giving followers a deeper and extra immersive expertise than ever earlier than. Since launch, the variety of month-to-month Spatial Audio listeners has greater than tripled, with greater than 80 % of worldwide subscribers having fun with the expertise, whereas month-to-month performs in Spatial Audio have grown by over 1,000 %. Moreover, this yr Apple Music partnered with Mercedes-Benz to carry Spatial Audio to drivers worldwide for the primary time. Apple Music Reside provides followers entry to unique reside performances by among the greatest world stars in music, together with Harry Kinds, Lil Durk, Mary J. Blige, Billie Eilish, Luke Combs, Wizkid, and Alicia Keys. Following every broadcast, listeners can get pleasure from every present anytime on demand in immersive Spatial Audio. And simply final month, Apple launched Apple Music Sing, giving subscribers the flexibility to sing alongside to their favourite songs. With adjustable vocals and Apple Music’s unparalleled real-time lyrics expertise, customers can simply carry out duets, sing backup, or take the lead utilizing an ever-expanding catalog of the world’s most singable songs.
2022 was additionally a milestone yr for Shazam, marking the service’s twentieth anniversary with 70 billion all-time Shazams. Final yr, Shazam launched 17 new nationwide charts and 58 new metropolis charts, increasing protection of the world’s most found music to extra elements of the world, as customers found over 40 million completely different songs and greater than 1 million artists obtained their very first Shazam. Final yr, the songs on Shazam’s World High 200 have been extra various than ever earlier than, illustrating {that a} new era of followers more and more linked with older songs, with “Working Up That Hill” by Kate Bush (1985) being the oldest track to succeed in No. 1. Shazam additionally launched a set of recent options, together with a brand-new library sync utilizing iCloud, enhanced Siri integration, and the flexibility to seek out live performance particulars, making it simple for customers to discover upcoming reside reveals whereas rising publicity for artists. Final week, Shazam launched its 2023 Predictions, a 50-song playlist that includes artists who’re poised to have a breakthrough yr. Shazam’s predictions have uncovered expertise from each nook of the globe sooner than every other service, with artists like Ayra Starr, who was considered one of Shazam’s 5 featured predictions in 2022, making Shazam’s World High 10 final fall.
All through 2022, Apple TV+ premiered among the most celebrated sequence of the yr, together with The Afterparty, Dangerous Sisters, Black Fowl, Echo 3, For All Mankind, Loot, The Final Days of Ptolemy Gray, Pachinko, Gradual Horses, Attempting, and the 14-time Emmy Award-nominated Severance. World phenomenon Ted Lasso continued its streak as essentially the most Emmy Award-winning comedy for the second yr in a row, with its second season touchdown the award for Excellent Comedy Collection, whereas Pachinko and Severance landed prestigious AFI Program of the 12 months honors.
Apple TV+ made historical past as the primary streaming service honored with the Academy Award for Greatest Image with CODA, and debuted broadly acclaimed movies together with Cha Cha Actual Easy, Luck, Selena Gomez: My Thoughts & Me, and Spirited, which has turn out to be the largest movie ever on the service. Causeway, Emancipation, and Sidney have been acknowledged with African-American Movie Critics Affiliation honors, and the acclaimed documentary Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues landed the IDA Documentary Award for Greatest Music Documentary.
This yr, Apple TV+ is about to premiere extremely anticipated unique sequence and movies from the world’s greatest storytellers, together with new Apple Originals Pricey Edward, Hey Tomorrow!, The Reluctant Traveler, and Shrinking; new seasons of award-winning and broadly celebrated sequence corresponding to The Afterparty, Schmigadoon!, Servant, Swagger, and Reality Be Instructed; and new movies Argylle, Killers of the Flower Moon, Sharper, and extra.
In 2022, Apple made vital strikes into reside sports activities, first with the debut of “Friday Evening Baseball” on Apple TV+, which completely confirmed two marquee Main League Baseball video games each Friday night time through the common season. Apple additionally introduced an unprecedented 10-year partnership with Main League Soccer. In a historic first for sports activities, followers world wide can stream each single MLS match by means of the MLS Season Go service on the Apple TV app, with none native blackouts, beginning February 1, 2023. MLS Season Go will carry MLS to its greatest worldwide viewers ever, as all matches will likely be obtainable on billions of gadgets by means of the Apple TV app and on the net.
With iOS 16, Apple Information launched My Sports activities, permitting sports activities followers to simply discover information and in-depth protection of their favourite leagues, groups, and gamers, and watch highlights proper within the Information app. Followers can even sync their favourite groups throughout Apple Information and the Apple TV app to comply with updates, get tune-in reminders, and extra. And with iOS 16.2, Reside Actions for the Apple TV app lets customers comply with their favourite sports activities groups from choose leagues with reside scores proper on their Lock Display screen and the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max.1
In 2022, Apple Health+ grew to become obtainable to iPhone customers to subscribe to and luxuriate in in 21 nations, even when they don’t have an Apple Watch, and grew the library to three,500 exercises and meditations. Health+ additionally launched Time to Run; Collections; an Artist Highlight sequence with exercises that includes music by Taylor Swift; the exercise program Yoga for Each Runner, that includes and designed with ultramarathoner Scott Jurek; and way more. To kick off 2023, Health+ introduced new methods for customers to enhance their health and general well-being, together with Kickboxing, a brand new total-body cardio exercise kind; a brand new Artist Highlight sequence with exercises that includes music by Beyoncé; a brand-new meditation theme, Sleep, together with a brand new program to assist customers get began, Introduction to Meditations for Sleep; the fifth season of Time to Stroll, starting with Jamie Lee Curtis; two new Collections; and three new Health+ trainers.
From breaking information updates on a very powerful tales of the day to fascinating in-depth characteristic reporting and superbly narrated audio tales, Apple Information continued to ship high quality information to tens of millions of individuals, and stays the highest information app within the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada. In November, Apple Information launched After the Whistle, a limited-series podcast hosted by Ted Lasso’s Brendan Hunt and NBC Sports activities’ Rebecca Lowe that supplied listeners entertaining and informative takes all through the World Cup event.
Apple Information+ subscribers continued to get pleasure from full entry to journalism from tons of of the world’s high retailers, together with The Atlantic, Nationwide Geographic, Folks, TIME, The Wall Avenue Journal, and Vogue, in addition to dozens of native and regional retailers, together with The Charlotte Observer, The Houston Chronicle, The Miami Herald, and extra, all within the Information app. Information+ subscribers have additionally tuned in to tens of millions of hours of professionally narrated audio tales, with among the most-listened-to tales coming from New York Journal, Sports activities Illustrated, Texas Month-to-month, The Los Angeles Instances, and The New Yorker.
Apple One is the simplest and finest approach to get Apple’s subscription companies in a single easy plan at the perfect worth, together with Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple Health+, Apple Information+, and iCloud+.
Apple Podcasts continued to assist listeners uncover nice new podcasts, get pleasure from their favorites, and help the creators who make them attainable whereas receiving new exclusives, early entry, ad-free listening, and extra premium advantages by means of Apple Podcasts Subscriptions. Over the approaching weeks, listeners will have the ability to get pleasure from new premium audio experiences from the Brains On! universe for teenagers, the economists behind Freakonomics Radio, The Pitch with Josh Muccio, and NPR’s day by day information program, Up First, plus new sequence from high creators together with iHeartMedia, SmartLess Media, Sony Music Leisure, and Wondery.
Apple Books is the place customers learn, pay attention, and uncover books and audiobooks throughout an enormous catalog of over 10 million titles. From the unputdownable fiction of Colleen Hoover to the candid memoirs of Jennette McCurdy and Matthew Perry, 2022 was full of high-profile bestsellers for readers and listeners, and the launch of the Apple Books “Learn Extra…” editorial assortment spotlighted works of authors from historically underrepresented teams all year long. Final yr additionally noticed enhancements to the studying expertise that make Apple Books a good higher platform for customers to uncover the leisure, connection, and reflection that books and audiobooks present. Readers can look again at The 12 months in Books, and browse essentially the most anticipated books for 2023.
Apple Maps has been rebuilt from the bottom up with extra correct navigation, richer element, and wonderful options like Look Round and Pure Language Steering. In 2022, the brand new map rolled out in 13 extra nations and territories world wide, together with France, Germany, Israel, New Zealand, and Singapore. The three-dimensional metropolis expertise can also be now obtainable in Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Montreal, Las Vegas, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver, permitting Maps customers to discover much more cities in vivid element. With iOS 16, Maps launched multistop routing, in addition to enhanced public transit updates, making it simple for riders to see how a lot their journey will value, add transit playing cards to Pockets, see low balances, and replenish transit playing cards, all with out leaving Maps. Customers throughout the US can even now reap the benefits of detailed, turn-by-turn biking instructions for bike lanes and different bike-friendly routes.
The 2022 vacation purchasing season noticed a record-breaking variety of purchases made utilizing Apple Pay globally. Final yr, Apple enhanced customers’ purchasing experiences with Apple Pay Order Monitoring, which helps customers observe the cargo of purchases made with Apple Pay with taking part retailers. Apple Pay is now obtainable to tens of millions of retailers in practically 70 nations and areas, and works with greater than 10,000 financial institution and community companions worldwide.
For companies massive and small, Apple launched Faucet to Pay on iPhone, empowering retailers throughout the US to seamlessly and securely settle for Apple Pay, contactless credit score and debit playing cards, and different digital wallets with solely an iPhone — no extra {hardware} wanted. Fee platforms corresponding to Adyen, Sq., and Stripe have already enabled Faucet to Pay on iPhone for tens of millions of app builders and retailers, with extra fee platforms to come back.
For the second consecutive yr, Apple Card and Goldman Sachs topped the charts within the Midsize Credit score Card Issuer section of the annual J.D. Energy U.S. Credit score Card Satisfaction Research.2 Apple Card’s widespread Every day Money rewards program expanded with the addition of Ace {Hardware} as a brand new 3 % Bonus Every day Money Service provider when customers use Apple Card with Apple Pay,3 in addition to the introduction of a brand new Every day Money hub inside customers’ Apple Card account to assist customers simply view and observe the lifetime Every day Money they’ve obtained utilizing Apple Card.
Apple expanded its Pockets choices with the launch of driver’s licenses and state IDs in Pockets, that are at the moment obtainable in Arizona, Colorado, and Maryland,4 with a minimum of 9 extra states deliberate to come back. Customers can even now share eligible keys in Pockets by means of their favourite messaging apps corresponding to Messages, Mail, and extra. In 2022, the usage of NFC tickets in Pockets throughout the US and Canada practically tripled yr over yr, with customers tapping their iPhone or Apple Watch to enter occasions like Main League Soccer video games within the US, and extra nice leisure {and professional} sporting occasions world wide.
Apple made it even simpler to ship and obtain Apple Money by letting customers do it proper in Pockets,5 along with Messages. Apple Money customers can even see pending requests in Pockets to remind them to ship an allowance, pay a roommate, or observe requests they’ve despatched.
iCloud retains a person’s most vital info — like images, recordsdata, and apps — safe, updated, and obtainable throughout all of their Apple gadgets. It powers vital options corresponding to iCloud Photographs, which lets customers simply browse, search, and share images and movies. iCloud Shared Picture Library, launched in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura, permits households to share images seamlessly utilizing a separate iCloud library that as much as six customers can collaborate on, contribute to, and luxuriate in. Along with these and different useful options, iCloud leads the business in utilizing privacy-preserving safety applied sciences, together with two-factor authentication, which is utilized by over 95 % of iCloud customers, and Superior Information Safety for iCloud, which makes use of end-to-end encryption to maintain customers’ information safe and beneath their management.
With iCloud+, prospects can get extra storage for all their info, plus premium options together with iCloud Non-public Relay, which protects a person’s privateness on the net; Cover My Electronic mail, which provides a simple approach to create a novel, random e mail addresses that ahead to a private inbox; customized e mail domains for iCloud Mail; and expanded help for HomeKit Safe Video recording.
- These options can be found within the US and Canada.
- Apple Card and issuer Goldman Sachs obtained the very best rating within the Midsize Credit score Card Issuer section within the J.D. Energy 2021-2022 U.S. Credit score Card Satisfaction Research of shoppers’ satisfaction with bank card issuers. Go to jdpower.com/awards for extra particulars.
- Ace {Hardware}: 3 % Every day Money is obtainable in the USA when utilizing Apple Card with Apple Pay on-line, within the cellular app, and at taking part shops listed at acehardware.com/applecard. Excludes on-line and cellular app reward card purchases and purchases from third-party retailers utilizing unbiased point-of-sale techniques inside a taking part Ace Ironmongery store. Please verify with native taking part Ace {Hardware} shops whether or not purchases are eligible for 3 % Every day Money.
- ID playing cards in Pockets are at the moment obtainable to be used in choose TSA checkpoints. Vacationers ought to check with checkpoint signage to substantiate availability. ID playing cards in Pockets requires an eligible machine and OS.
- Apple Money companies are offered by Inexperienced Dot Financial institution, Member FDIC. Study extra concerning the Phrases and Circumstances. Apple Money companies are solely obtainable within the U.S. on eligible gadgets. To ship and obtain cash with an Apple Money account, individuals should be 18 and a U.S. resident. If individual is beneath 18, a household organizer can arrange Apple Money as a part of their Apple Money Household account. Safety checks might require extra time to make funds obtainable. Apple Money Household accounts can ship or obtain as much as $2,000 per transaction or inside a seven-day interval. Sending cash from Pockets requires iOS 15.5 or later.
To entry and use all Apple Card options and merchandise obtainable solely to Apple Card customers, Apple Card to Pockets should be added on an iPhone or iPad that helps and has the newest model of iOS or iPadOS. Apple Card is topic to credit score approval, obtainable just for qualifying candidates in the USA, and issued by Goldman Sachs Financial institution USA, Salt Lake Metropolis Department.
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