Apple Music High Quality Streaming Data

Here is a way to adjust apple music streaming quality over mobile data to listen to high quality music on your iphone and ipad.

Apple music high quality streaming data. Open settings app scroll down and click music. How to enable high quality music streaming on apple music using mobile data. Firstly open apple music on your device.

Like any other streaming music service apple music uses a data connection in order to serve up beats 1 its curated playlists and its other radio stations to your iphone or ipad. If you use the service frequently you ll likely be draining a fair bit of data. Follow the steps below to toggle on the option to enable high quality on your mobile data in apple music.

This should be enabled by default because even if your cellular signal is strong apple music will. For this test i was using at t s 4g cellular service with high quality streaming turned off settings music cellular data. From here you can toggle on high quality streaming.

Apple music on ios includes an option to stream your music at high bitrates over a mobile data network at all times. Tap at cellular data and allow apple music to use both wlan cellular data. Fire up settings music cellular data.

Apple music uses a variable bitrate 64kbps 128kbps and 256kbps for streaming so depending on if you are on wi fi or cellular it will adjust the audio quality which will affect data usage. Toggle on the high quality streaming option then you can always stream music at the highest quality. Now tap on the 3 dots icon located at the top right and tap on settings.

When i stream apple music with 4g how much data will it consume if high quality is switched off and how much if high quality is switched on. On a schedule of one hour of music streaming a day basic quality chews through roughly 844mb of your monthly data allowance with compact upping that to 1 65gb and enhanced topping out at 4 2gb. With this toggle you can control your cellular data usage by enabling or disabling high bitrates when streaming or downloading music over your carrier s cellular data network.