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iOS 18.2 Brings Natural Language Search to Apple Music and Apple TV

By Julie Clover

With the iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, macOS Sequoia 15.2, tvOS 18.2, and HomePod 18.2 software updates, Apple added a new natural language search feature to Apple Music and Apple TV.


In the Apple TV app, you can use natural language search to find exactly what you're looking for by entering genres, actors, and moods. Searches like “disaster movies,” “movies with cats,” “Zendaya movies,” and “uplifting movies” all return relevant results.

The Apple Music app supports similar searches, and you can search by genre, mood, activity, decade, and more. For example, “cat songs,” “vibe songs,” “chill songs,” “artists like Taylor Swift,” “sad 80s songs,” and “food songs.”

On the HomePod, Siri supports Apple Music. natural language search so you can ask your personal assistant to play content based on your mood and actions, just like on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, HomePod software 18.2, tvOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 are expected to be released to the public next week.

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