Here’s one iOS 17.2 beta feature that didn’t make it to the iOS 17.2 RC update

Here’s one iOS 17.2 beta feature that didn’t make it to the iOS 17.2 RC update،

iOS 17.2 is expected any day now (between December 10 and 15, most likely), but those who can't wait can preview the update via the iOS 17.2 RC which has just been released.

As Apple aficionados now know, RC stands for Release Candidate. In other words, if no major bugs or issues are found in the RC version, it will become the final and stable version of the mobile operating system. Once upon a time the RC was called Gold Master, but Apple changed the naming system with the release of iOS and iPadOS 14.2.

Now that all that is clear, let's move on. There is a feature that was implemented in the first iOS 17.2 beta which apparently won't be available in the stable version iOS 17.2, because it is not present in the current version iOS 17.2 RC (via 9to5Mac).

What is missing ?

Apple Music collaborative playlists are not supported in iOS 17.2 RC, it will therefore be delayed until 2024 at the earliest.

As the report suggests, Apple pulled Apple Music collaborative playlists from iOS 17.2 CR due to concerns about abuse and spam.

Regarding the new features of Apple Music in iOS 17.2 GB, they will most likely be:

The Favorite Songs playlist in Apple Music lets you quickly return to songs you mark as favorites
Use of listening history in Apple Music can be turned off in a Focus so that the music you listen to does not appear in Recently Played or influence your recommendations.

Focus mode is another way of saying that you can enable your listening history, but when Focus mode is also enabled, the songs you listen to will not be added to your history and therefore will not appear in your playlist recommendations. Think of this new feature as an incognito tab. So, you can take a slight detour to Eric Clapton and listen to Cardi B without royally spoiling your usual playlists and suggestions. Support for collaborative playlists for Apple Music was first announced at WWDC in June and Apple provided the feature in the first iOS 17.2 beta, but then removed it in the fourth iOS 17.2 beta. Some hoped to see him again in the iOS 17.2 RC – and finally in the stable iOS 17.2 update – but apparently this is not the case.

The Collaborative Playlists support feature could give users the new option to invite others to collaborate on that playlist. From there, everyone will be able to add to this playlist, rearrange songs, delete songs, and use emoji to react to songs displayed in the Now Playing interface.

When you create collaborative playlists, you can choose to allow anyone with the link to collaborate. You can also choose to manually approve people before they can collaborate on the playlist.