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Today’s Apple Insider Roundup
AI songs are flooding Apple Music but nobody is actually listening to them
Apple Music VP Oliver Schusser says that while AI-generated music now makes up a large share of submissions to Apple Music, it accounts for almost none of what people actually play.
In an interview published on April 22, Schusser highlighted an imbalance. He explained that more than a third of tracks delivered to the service are “100% AI,” but listening remains below 0.5%.
Apple is taking proactive steps before AI-generated music distorts the platform’s integrity. “We have developed — and we’ve never talked about this — but we’ve developed technology in-house that would allow us to exactly see what music people are delivering us,” Schusser said, “what AI [model] it is and all that.”
The company is asking labels and distributors to disclose AI use in songs, while also relying on internal systems to analyze incoming content and verify those disclosures.
Future MacBook notch may get replaced with removable cameras on a rotating screen
The FaceTime camera on a MacBook Pro is famously not as good as one on an iPhone, but research shows Apple keeps working on it and may have decided that the answer involves mounting larger cameras on a rotating display.
Maybe you don’t give the camera notch on the MacBook Pro a second thought. But even if you do and you loathe it, and you believe it’s taking up screen real estate, the one thing you can’t say is that it is thick.
It’s quite wide, wide enough that you wonder why it doesn’t include Face ID yet. But it doesn’t add to the thickness of the MacBook Pro lid, and presumably it’s this thinness that limits how good a camera system Apple can fit in there.
Apple Savings APY hits record low of 3.50% in first 2026 cut
Apple Card users are seeing returns shrink once more as Apple Savings lowers its APY following continued rate pressure from the Federal Reserve.
On Thursday, Apple advised customers of a 0.15% annual percentage yield (APY) decrease on Apple Savings accounts. Before this drop, the Apple Savings APY was 3.65%, a rate set in May 2025.
This decrease affects all Apple Savings customers. It comes after the Federal Reserve reduced its rates in December 2025.
How Apple protects designs & marketing materials before a product launch
Apple goes to great lengths to ensure that its pre-release artwork doesn’t leak ahead of launch. Here’s why those efforts are usually successful.
Box art and marketing materials for an unannounced iPhone or iPad rarely reach the general public, thanks to Apple’s strict security protocols.
The company has a comprehensive set of requirements in place for its own employees, third-party personnel, and for the areas where design work is conducted.
Apple Maps was Tim Cook's biggest mistake
Speaking to employees, outgoing CEO Tim Cook talked about his time leading Apple, citing both the successes he is most proud of, and admitting to the one main failure.
As announced, Tim Cook and incoming CEO John Ternus held an Apple Town Hall meeting for employees on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. It was specifically to answer questions about the handover to Ternus, but Cook also addressed his own time as CEO.
According to Bloomberg, Cook described the 2012 launch of Apple Maps as his “first big mistake” after taking over from Steve Jobs.
Apple will not buy Disney, no matter how often it hears that it will
Tenth time still isn’t the charm. One day after Tim Cook announced that he was handing the reigns to John Ternus, an analyst that has beaten this drum before is again saying today that a sale of Disney to Apple can and must happen. That sale is even less likely to happen now, than it was the last nine times we’ve updated this story.
The rumor that Apple will buy Disney is as old as the iPod and it’s lasted through a couple of Disney CEOs now. You’d think that analysts would have figured out that it isn’t going to happen.
Or at least they should have begun to see that clickbait headlines about why Apple must buy Disney have to be losing their pull as the years go by and Apple keeps on doing nothing of the sort.
End of today’s Apple Insider roundup.
