Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Wednesday, February 18th, 2026.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Stuff, the Clean and Powerful To-Do list application.

Leading off today, Apple Music and TikTok are teaming up on two new features for the short form video app. First, there's a new

feature called Play Full Song. This feature gives you the ability to play a full song in the

TikTok app using Apple Music. It's based on Apple's Music Kit framework, which allows developers

to integrate Apple Music into their own applications.

The idea is that this feature will make it easier for TikTok users to discover new music and immediately start listening to that music without leaving the TikTok app.

An Apple Music subscription is required for this feature.

Apple Music is still the source of the song,

and there's a clear from Apple Music label on the source of the song, and there's a clear from Apple Music

label on the playback in the TikTok app. This also means that Apple Music is still the one

paying the royalties and managing the licensing for all of the music. Second, TikTok and Apple

are beta testing a new listening party feature. This feature will let fans listen to music

together in a community environment. It sounds a lot like a modernized version of the now-defunct

turntable.fm service, which let users collaboratively stream music. Both of these features are

currently being beta tested by TikTok and Apple Music,

so they aren't available for everyone yet. This also isn't the first time Apple and

TikTok have worked together. In 2023, TikTok added the ability to quickly save songs discovered

in the app to your Apple Music library. Then the following year, Apple Music added support for sharing a song from the music app directly to TikTok.

Again, these features are only available to a subset of users right now.

Again, for right now, these new features are only available for beta testing to a subset of TikTok and Apple Music users.

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