A mistake by Apple Music confused some iPhone users According to various reports, the Apple Music IOS app is installed directly at the bottom of the iPhone when downloading, rather than on the home screen of the phone It is reported that it will kick out other applications set by users on its bottom and occupy their position, which is not what applications usually do.
Some iPhone Users also found that this error caused Apple music to become the default music service requested by Siri - even if they had previously configured other services such as spotify.
It is unclear how common this error is.
However, it has been seen that this problem occurs in different versions of IOS 15, so it seems to have nothing to do with the recent IOS update. In addition, it is also considered to affect different iPhone models.
Apple could not provide further details about the error, but said it was investigating it.
Kevin Archer, an IOS developer, first discovered this strange behavior of Apple Music and posted a video on twitter showing that Apple Music removed spotify from the bottom of iPhone during installation.
Although this seems to indicate that Apple has promoted Apple music rather than spotify to some extent, Archer points out that this will happen when any third-party application is in the fourth slot at the bottom. In addition, he also said that first-party applications such as Apple's camera application will not be knocked down.
However, foreign media tests found that Apple Music applications will replace various applications deployed by users at the bottom of the interface - including first-party applications such as built-in camera applications and other third-party applications such as twitter. Another developer pointed out in a twitter reply that Apple music also squeezed Apple's Safari app from the bottom of their iPhone.
Although some people think there is room for doubt about this change in self recommendation - after all, apple once ranked its app at the top of the app store search results and app store Rankings - in this case, given that it did not affect all users in the same way, there is a good reason to think it was a mistake.
Although Apple certainly wants more users of its apple music service, it is hard to imagine Apple overturning consumers' established preferences and their personalized application arrangements on the iPhone in order to achieve its goal. This is a bad consumer experience. In addition, if Apple wants to secretly transfer users to Apple Music, it cannot try to put its application directly at the bottom to replace other applications.
Nevertheless, it wasn't long before epic CEO Tim Sweeney put forward the reason why Apple manipulated its own platform. At present, epic is engaged in a fierce antitrust lawsuit with the technology giant, which is currently under appeal.
In a tweet, Sweeney said he verified the behavior on IOS 15.4.1, and also pointed out that Apple Music replaced his spotify app and linked to a 2019 tweet with a similar consumer complaint.
In fact, when the iPhone is first installed, it will have a set of pre installed apps, four of which will be automatically set on the dock bar.
If you don't want to use default applications such as apple music, apple gives users the ability to delete these applications. If users later want to reinstall the app, they can get them from the app store. And it's worth noting that applications often try to install in pre configured locations -- especially default applications. Since the apple music application is pre installed in the dock slot on the far right, it will be installed in this location no matter what application it has.
Although third-party applications do try to reinstall in the previously configured location on the home screen, they are never installed on the bottom because these default applications are locked on the base by the operating system at the time of installation. This seems to be the result of a programming quirk, rather than trying to push their own applications onto third-party applications.
In any case, if this problem is not solved quickly, it may attract more attention because it collides with the anti-monopoly law, which may soon issue instructions to large technology companies to prevent them from giving priority to their products and services on their platforms.
Apple said it was aware of the error and was investigating it.