iOS 8.4 will be released tomorrow at 8am

The former Beats Music CEO, now a senior executive at Apple Music, announced some information about Apple Music on his blog. He talked about the history of digital music and radio, and said that the Apple Music he saw at WWDC made him feel that the efforts of the past 20 years had finally come true on this day.

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Apple will release iOS 8.4 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on June 30. iOS 8.4 includes a completely redesigned music app and supports Apple Music. The release time of iOS 8.4 is earlier than previous versions. Apple usually releases iOS system updates at 10:00 a.m. This change may be to echo Beats 1 radio. Beats 1 is part of Apple Music and is Apple's global radio station. It will be officially launched at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on June 30.

Meanwhile, Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, also explained to a customer on Twitter how Apple Music works with iTunes Match. Apple Music includes the same matching and uploading of unidentified songs features as iTunes Match. Apple does not require users to subscribe to both services to get full functionality.

Cue also mentioned that Apple Music supports up to 25,000 songs, but after the release of iOS 9, Apple will increase the limit to 100,000 songs. Apple Music will also support the iOS 9 beta version. Eddy Cue said that a new iOS 9 beta version will be released to support Apple Music.