Apple Music is here. Here’s how to sign up for the streaming, radio, and artist integration service.

Want to rock out to the Apple Music streaming service, view exclusive content on Connect, and listen to Beats 1 and other Apple Music radio stations ad-free? You need to sign up for your free three-month trial. Here’s how you go about doing it.

How to sign up for Apple Music

1. Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 8.4.
2. After it installs and reboots, launch the Music app. You’ll see a splash screen that welcomes you to Apple Music. From here, you can tap Start 3 Month Free Trial to begin the registration process. (If you tapped Go to My Music after first seeing this screen, you can return to this signup at any time by tapping the Account icon in the top left corner of the Music app and tapping Join Apple Music.)
3. Choose a membership plan: either the $9.99/month individual plan, or the $14.99 family plan, which supports up to six members of your family. Tap the one you want. (You won’t be charged for each until your three-month trial ends.)

   

4. Sign in to the iTunes Store with your Apple ID and password. You may also be prompted to agree to the new iTunes terms and conditions, if you haven’t already.
5. Confirm that you want to sign up for Apple Music.

   

You’re all set! Get ready to enjoy three free months of Apple Music.

How to turn off Apple Music’s automatic subscription

If you don’t want Apple Music to automatically charge you after your three months are up, here’s how to turn off auto-subscribe.

1. Open Apple Music.
2. Tap the Account icon in the upper left corner of the app, then tap View Apple ID.
3. Select Manage under the Subscriptions subheader.

   

4. Tap Your Membership above Apple Music Membership.
5. Turn the slider next to Automatic Renewal to Off.

   

Once you disable Automatic Renewal, you’ll have to return to this screen to activate your subscription when your free trial ends in September.

How to migrate your Beats Music subscription to Apple Music

1. Download the Beats Music 2.3.3 update from the App Store.
2. Open Beats Music and tap Get Started. (If you instead chose ”Not Now,” you can start the process at any time by tapping the hamburger menu in the upper left corner of Beats and tapping Join Apple Music.)
3. In Apple Music, tap on the link that says ”Beats Music Subscriber?”
4. The app should prompt you to follow the same steps as above to continue.

Apple has officially launched Beats 1, its live, always-on radio station. Anchored by Zane Lowe in Los Angeles, Ebro Darden in New York, and Julie Adenuga in London, Beats 1 broadcasts across the world to over 100 countries, and comes as one of the central pieces of Apple Music, though it is available to those without a subscription as well.

Lowe took the lead in the inaugural broadcast, which began with City, a track from Spring King. Over its life, the station will feature one and two-hour blocks of shows from the likes of Pharrell Williams, Elton John, and Dr. Dre, and more.

To listen to Beats 1, update your iPhone or iPad to iOS 8.4 and head over to the Radio tab in the new Music app. You’ll Beats 1 is right at the top.

The Apple Music streaming audio service is now live, and as a consequence the Beats Music service is being retired. The official Beats Music app for the iPhone and iPad has been updated with a message to encourage its users to switch over to Apple Music.

Here’s the specific message that is being sent to Beats Music subscribers:

Apple Music is here! Apple Music offers many of the great features you already know and love in Beats Music. Plus, you’ll have unlimited access to over 30 millions songs, including handcrafted playlists and albums curated by the world’s leading music experts, a reimagined live radio station, and a personal connection to the artists you love. If you’re a Beats Music subscriber, you can easily move your subscription to Apple Music, taking all your playlists and your library with you.

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