Apple yesterday updated its Apple Music for Artists app with some minor bug fixes and improvements, as well as another notable change: a new icon.
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New icon on the right
The Apple Music for Artists app now has a simpler, streamlined icon with a rose-red music logo in place of the multi-colored logo previously used. The icon also has a textured look that makes it stand out from other Apple icons.
Apple Music for Artists is an app that lets artists know how their music is performing in enApple Music dus, iTunes and Shazam, so it’s a limited audience app and the new icon may seem insignificant, but it’s similar to another app icon change that Apple introduced last year.
App Store Connect was updated in October with a refreshed icon that resembles the leApple Music for Artists icon, which means that Apple has now updated two app icons with this new design.
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App Store Connect to the old icon on the left, the new icon on the right
On Reddit, users speculate that the icon changes could be indicative of more drastic design changes that will be introduced in iOS 15.
Apple has revamped many of its icons in macOS Big Sur and streamlined their design, so there’s a chance that something similar could happen in iOS 15. That said, these could only be one-time updates to Apple’s behind-the-scenes apps for developers and musicians, and not a sign of anything to come.
We don’t know much about iOS 15 at all at this point, but we might see some details leaked out as the software’s launch date approaches. Apple is expected to debut iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, tvOS 15 and macOS 12 at the keynote event that will take place on June 7th.