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YouTube Music Rolling Out Premium Paywall for Song Lyrics‎

YouTube Music is making users pay for lyrics. Originally introduced in 2020 as a free feature, song lyrics now sit behind a paywall – as part of a YouTube Premium or Music Premium subscription. As spotted by 9to5Google, in the latest update currently rolling out, the Lyrics tab on the Now Playing screen displays the warning message, "You have [x] views remaining. Unlock lyrics with Premium." Users get five free lyrics before a subscription is required. After that, users only see the first few lines, while the rest are blurred. Google has been testing the change with a small subset of users for a few months already, and now it appears to be rolling out globally. Google has yet to confirm the change. YouTube Music Premium costs $10.99 per month, and includes ad-free playback, offline downloads, and background listening. YouTube Premium, priced at $13.99, brings those benefits to the YouTube app. It's possible that Google is trying to claw back costs paid to third-party services like LyricFind and MusixMatch, which the app seems to be using to retrieve lyrics. Whether the strategy outlives previous attempts by streamers to make users pay extra for the feature remains to be seen. Last year, Spotify briefly put lyrics behind a paywall, but it rolled back the move after a user backlash. Tag: YouTube MusicThis article, "YouTube Music Rolling Out Premium Paywall for Song Lyrics" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums

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iOS 27 to Focus on Bug Fixes, Performance, and Design Tweaks‎

Apple's new software updates to be previewed at 2026's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) could be relatively modest, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claims. In today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that iOS 27 will be unveiled at WWDC this year, and while it will deliver further Apple Intelligence improvements, the event will be "a fairly muted affair this year." The headline new software features will apparently be a "more personalized Siri with a chatbot interface," as previously rumored, but the software platforms will generally focus on performance improvements, bug fixes, and fine-tuning the design. Gurman added that the first beta version of iOS 26.4 will release to developers during the week of February 23, featuring "some components" of the long-anticipated improvements to ‌Siri‌. WWDC 2026 is likely to be announced toward the end of March and take place in the first or second week of June. The major new software updates unveiled at the event will probably be available to developers in beta immediately after the keynote address, and release to the public in the fall. Tags: iOS 27, WWDC 2026This article, "iOS 27 to Focus on Bug Fixes, Performance, and Design Tweaks" first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums

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