Apple has announced a redesigned Apple Music identity that replaces the service’s familiar red scheme with black-and-white visuals. The new logo, wordmark, sound and wider visual system are expected to arrive with software updates including iOS 27.2 and macOS 27.2.
The company presented the overhaul in a YouTube video, as first reported by MacRumors. Apple describes the concept as being “made by sound,” tying the service’s visual presentation directly to audio.
Sound drives the new visual system
Apple says its designers played sound through water, then captured the movement produced around Apple Music branding. That process informed imagery for the updated system, giving the rebrand a physical link to the music played through the platform.
British producer Fred Again and NEST Acoustics contributed to the project. Their involvement places musicians and audio specialists inside a design exercise that Apple is framing around sound, rather than treating the change as a simple icon refresh.
The new direction had already started to surface before the formal announcement. A redesigned app icon appeared earlier, while an updated wordmark was visible in an iOS 27.2 beta.
The change follows Apple’s Liquid Glass rollout
The Apple Music refresh extends a broader redesign of Apple’s software. Apple introduced its Liquid Glass design language across operating-system releases including iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, and the streaming service’s new look will put its interface more closely in step with that wider visual shift.
That matters because Apple Music is one of the company’s most visible recurring services, appearing across phones, computers and other Apple devices. A move away from red changes a visual cue that has long separated the service from the rest of Apple’s software, while its planned inclusion in system updates makes the redesign part of the company’s platform-level design transition.
Apple has not set an exact public release date for the cited software versions. It also has not said whether every Apple Music platform and regional version will receive the branding at the same time, and it has not identified the composition used in the project or detailed Fred Again’s and NEST Acoustics’ individual production roles.
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