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APPLE launched an official karaoke feature called Music Sing.

It works with Apple Music – Spotify’s rival for iPhone, iPad and more.

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Longtime Apple Music users will know that the service already offers a scrolling lyrics view for songs – so you can sing along.

But Apple Music Sing massively improves on this feature to let you sing along properly.

The app feature consists of two main parts: adjustable vocals and real-time lyrics.

Songs now have a Sing slider that allows you to turn down or even almost mute the vocals in a song.

It uses powerful on-device processing to analyze the song waveform and isolate the vocals.

You can control this simply by tapping the mic on a Sing-approved song.

The other element of the feature is real-time texts.

Instead of displaying lyrics line by line, Sing Tracks highlights lyrics by syllable.

This should help you sing along even if you are unfamiliar with the song.

If a song has backing vocals, they are shown in a smaller font between the main lines.

And on a duet track, the song splits the lyrics on the left and right sides of the screen depending on who’s singing.

Apple says the new feature will be available later this month.

“The Apple Music lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features of our service,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats.

“We already know that our users around the world love to follow their favorite songs, so we wanted to take this offering even further to enable even more engagement with music through singing.

“It’s really a lot of fun, our customers will love it.”

Apple Music editors will be curating dozens of song playlists by theme, decade and genre.

And you can also search sing songs directly. Just look for the microphone icon.

It’s only available to Apple Music subscribers (£10.99 / $10.99), so you’ll need a membership to enjoy it.

Apple Music Sing will work on compatible iPhone and iPad models (with an A13 chip or higher – so at least an iPhone 11) as well as the new Apple TV 4K.

It won’t work if you only pay for the cheaper Apple Music Voice plan.

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