Today, Microsoft and Apple introduced a lot of deeper integrations of Apple companies on each Windows PCs and Xbox sport consoles, together with Music and TV apps for each platforms and the flexibility to browse your iCloud Photo Library throughout the Windows 11 Photos app.

The Apple Music app for Xbox is already out there. Existing customers can obtain the app and begin listening to their playlists and stations, whereas new customers can join a one-month trial. The consumer interface for Apple Music on the Xbox is nearly precisely the identical because the one we have used earlier than on Apple TV {hardware}. It does not add any new options we’ve not seen earlier than, but it surely’s good to see parity between the platforms.

The Music and TV apps for Windows aren’t out there but, however the firms say they will each be out there subsequent yr. It was already potential to entry each Apple Music and Apple TV+ by way of internet interfaces on Windows. Further, the iTunes app at the moment lives on in Windows. (It was beforehand sundown on the Mac in favor of the Apple Music app.)

The Windows iTunes app lets customers hearken to songs and watch TV and films bought by way of Apple’s on-line retailer. Even although Apple Music will arrive on Windows, iTunes will proceed to be out there, and customers will nonetheless be capable to entry Podcasts and Books there.

While you may have to attend till subsequent yr to obtain the Music and TV apps in Windows, the iCloud Photo Library integration is accessible proper now. You’ll need to obtain the iCloud Windows app (which is already used to sync quite a lot of issues, like browser bookmarks) and decide into syncing your iCloud Photo Library. After that, each movies and pictures ought to be out there throughout the Windows 11 Photos app.

Apple has enormously expanded the platforms its varied apps and companies have been out there on lately. There had been already Apple TV apps out there for the Xbox and PlayStation, for instance.