Here are some exciting new Apple Music & Podcasts features and experiences users can anticipate once iOS17 rolls out:

1. Collaborative Playlists: Apple Music subscribers can create and edit playlists with family and friends, incorporating track selections, edits, and emoji reactions.

2. Enhanced Apple Music Sing experience: Using Continuity Camera, users can see themselves on screen with camera filters while singing along to their favorite songs. Can’t see me using it much, but I think my daughters might.

3. Song Credits in Apple Music: Fans can access detailed information about artists' contributions to tracks, including roles and instruments played. One for the geeks, or who like tracking their music family trees - I kind of like doing this every now and again.

4. SharePlay in the car: Everyone can easily choose what's playing by connecting trusted iPhone devices to an ongoing session; listeners control music from their own devices even without an Apple Music subscription. I can see this being both brilliant and a constant source of car drama.

5. Streamable catalog of radio shows on Apple Podcasts: Subscribers gain access to award-winning commercial-free radio programs that automatically notify when a new episode drops. This is one that I’ll be using a lot.

Additionally, improvements are coming soon for Apple Podcasts:

1. New Now Playing experience: A refreshed design showcasing podcast art with enhanced controls for managing queues. Better queue management is well overdue.

2. Episode art exploration: With support for episode art throughout the platform, listeners will discover more details about a podcast's content alongside improved previews, play options or follow functions within episodes and channels in Up Next.

3. App Store connection with subscriptions: Access exclusive content through eligible subscriptions connected to top apps like Bloomberg, Calm, The Economist, L’Équipe, Lingokids, The Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, & WELT.

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