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Apple’s iOS 18.1 will bring sharing functionality with TikTok to Apple Music, enabling users to share their favorite songs on the platform.
Apple’s much anticipated iOS 18.1 update promises the first set of “Apple Intelligence” tools to devices that support it. But the update also brings with it some other fun features, like the ability for Apple Music users to share their favorite songs on TikTok with ease.
Developers got their first taste of iOS 18.1 beta 6 this week, which adds a new button for sharing songs to TikTok. Tapping the button opens the TikTok app with a card showing the song you’ve shared. From there, you can post it as a photo, a video, or send it to someone in a private message. Posting the card as a video or photo automatically enables TikTok to link the song to your post. The video options let you record a video of yourself with the song playing in the background.
It’s notably similar to the integration added to Instagram Stories in 2020 with iOS 13, except Instagram doesn’t link the shared song to the story. Interestingly, while you can easily share song lyrics to Instagram, there’s still no way to do so on TikTok, even with this new functionality.
Regardless, this should be a welcome feature for TikTok users on iOS. iPhone and iPad users running the latest beta of iOS 18.1 can try it out now by clicking to share a song in the Apple Music app.
As iOS 18.1 will be the first version to feature Apple Intelligence, this will include features like Writing Tools, notification summarization, and Clean Up in Apple’s Photos app. AI features such as a “more advanced” Siri, Genmoji, and Image Playground will come later in the year with a future update.
The bulk of Apple Intelligence features will require an iPhone 15 Pro or later, but the iOS 18.1 update will be available to all devices compatible with iOS 18.
