Apple is also making sure that the feature doesn’t change how an album sounds when the feature is enabled. A good example of this is the suite or medley (whichever you want to call it) of songs on side 2 of the The Beatles’ Abbey Road album. This brilliant piece of musicianship, songwriting, and performing starts with “You Never Give Me Your Money” and continues through the end of the album with the 23-second “Her Majesty.” With the Smart Crossfade feature, the songs will segue right into each other as they do on the album.
In iOS 18 enabling Crossfade will turn on Smart Crossfade for Apple Music|Image credit-PhoneArena
Smart Crossfade turns on once you enable Crossfire in the Apple Music app’s settings (more on that later). With Crossfade, users can set the length of the crossfade from one second to 12 seconds. If you’re an Apple Music subscriber running the iOS 18 beta, you can try Smart Crossfade. Go to Settings > Music and toggle on Crossfade. Play around with the settings until you find which Crossfade length (again, you can choose between one second and 12 seconds) you prefer. You can still do this to activate Crossfade in iOS 17 although you won’t get the new Smart Crossfade features until iOS 18 is installed.