iOS 18.4 Ambient Sounds: No Apple Music Subscription Needed
2025-04-13
iOS 18.4 introduces new ambient sounds in the Control Center, offering Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing modes. Surprisingly, these are usable without an Apple Music subscription. The author, while exploring this feature, found the Music app needed to be installed, and it doesn't support *.flac files. The article details converting *.flac files to Apple's lossless *.m4a format using the ffmpeg command-line tool or XLD/Audio Converter software, and shares a conversion script. Finally, the author synced the converted music to their iPhone via cable, recommending wired transfers to avoid potential interference from Apple Music with music files.
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