Apple Music, Apple TV apps are coming to Windows 11

Image: Getty Images/iStockphotoPreviews of the Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Devices apps are available in the Microsoft Store on Windows 11, Microsoft has said as it

published its latest Windows 11 preview.Apple's iTunes for macOS went away a few years ago, but not for Windows. In October last year, Microsoft announced that iCloud Photos, Apple

TV, and Apple Music were coming to Windows 11 in 2023. That's happening now with the new previews of the Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Devices app. They're available in the

Microsoft Store for Windows 11, but are limited to the US. iCloud Photos is already available and has an integration with the Windows 11 Photos app that makes it easier to get

photos from an iPhone directly into the Photos app. Apple Music and Apple TV serve the same purpose on Windows 11 as macOS. Also: Is Microsoft really going to cut off security

updates for your 'unsupported' Windows 11 PC?Windows users who rely on iTunes for podcasts might want to avoid the preview. Apple notes that after installing the Apple Music

Preview, iTunes won't open anymore and that means "audiobooks or podcasts on this device will be inaccessible until a compatible version of iTunes is released". However, users can

go back to iTunes by uninstalling the preview Apple Music app.   Apple TV on Windows offers Apple TV+, movie rentals, and premium channel subscriptions. Apple notes that not all

features might work as expected in the preview. The Apple Devices app is for syncing content from a Windows PC to iOS devices, as well as to update, restore, and backup iOS

devices.   The Apple app previews for Windows 11 are available outside of the latest Windows 11 insider preview. Microsoft also just released Windows 11 Insider preview build

25276 for Dev Channel testers with one change that could annoy users. It's changing the approach to Microsoft 365 and cloud storage by now including Outlook.com attachments in

OneDrive storage quotas -- a change that is reflected in a new storage bar in the Settings app that shows the size of total Outlook attachments.  Windows 11 users can manager

Microsoft 365 subscripts and cloud storage from the updated Settings app. In November, Microsoft added to the Settings app in the form of a storage bar that shows how much cloud

storage is being used by each Microsoft 365 product. It also warned that it was changing exactly which Microsoft 365 apps and services data are included and that this might impact

users' cloud storage amount starting on February 1, 2023. Microsoft has now revealed the change is that Outlook attachment data is include in a user's OneDrive storage, which is