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Finally, a “sleep” mode includes sounds geared toward lulling you off to dreamland.

My ears pricked up when I heard about the arrival of ambient music in iOS 18.4.

Apple Music playing on an iPhone

There’s an issue with this approach, though.

And why go through the trouble of creating a playlist when Apple can do it for me?

Just swipe diagonally from the upper right corner of the home screen to bring up Control Center.

Ambient Music controls in iOS 18.4

You’re going to need tocustomize Control Center in iOS 18to add ambient music controls.

it’s possible for you to add one or even multiple controls if you have the space.

That way, you’ve got the option to just control music playback from there.

ambient music in the playback controls on an iOS 18.4 lock screen

The genres sound pretty distinct to my ears.

I’m not sure if that would contribute to my sense of well-being.

If you’re really into ambient music, that’s a lot of space to devote to one feature.

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Ambient music is available on any phone that can run iOS 18.4.

Not everyone’s going to embrace the feature, not even music lovers.

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