Apple Music 7.0 brings a Liquid Glass look to Android in beta, as the service reaches Pakistan and three more countriesApple Music 7.0 brings a Liquid Glass look to Android in beta, as the service reaches Pakistan and three more countries

Apple Music became available in Albania, Brunei, Burkina Faso and Pakistan on 30 September.

The change appears on Apple's Availability of Apple Media Services page, which carries a 30 September date. AppleInsider and 9to5Mac both credit Aaron Perris, who posts about Apple's support pages on X, with spotting it. 9to5Mac puts the new total at 172 countries and regions. On the same day 9to5Google reported a beta of Apple Music 7.0 for Android with a redesign modelled on Liquid Glass, the design language Apple introduced on its own platforms a year ago.

What do the four countries actually get?

Apple's page lists more than Apple Music for each of them, and the details differ:

• None of the four is listed for Apple Music Classical.
• Albania, Burkina Faso and Pakistan are listed for the Apple TV subscription and Apple Arcade. Brunei gets Arcade but not the Apple TV subscription.
• Apple Books is limited to public domain titles in all four.
• In Pakistan, Apple Podcasts is limited to free shows.

9to5Mac notes that three of the four, all but Brunei, were already on Apple's list of regions where iCloud+ includes Apple TV and Apple Arcade at no extra cost. Apple has not published local prices for the four markets.

What changes in Apple Music on Android?

According to 9to5Google, which installed the beta, the bottom navigation bar now floats above the content with slight translucency, and the mini-player sits above it as a separate floating element. Unlike on iOS, the bar does not shrink when scrolling. Page titles and the overflow menu share one line, the menu buttons are no longer red and sit in circles, and artist pages take their background colour from the artwork. Settings are regrouped. The Now Playing screen is largely unchanged, as it was on iOS. 9to5Google says the version number now tracks iOS, so 7.0 corresponds to iOS 27, and that betas typically run a few weeks. Its account is the only hands-on so far; 9to5Mac's mention links to it.

Our take

Eleven years after launch, the countries still missing from Apple Music are not the large ones, and each new addition now says more about Apple's services push than about music. Pakistan is the notable one: one of the world's most populous countries, and one where Apple's own page still restricts paid podcasts and books. Bringing music and video in before payments and books suggests Apple is adding what it can license first. That pattern fits Apple Pay's arrival in India the same day, which we reported launched with a single bank and no UPI link.

The Android redesign is the more interesting design story. Apple has every reason not to give Android users the full Liquid Glass treatment, and 9to5Google's description suggests it has not: a floating bar with only slight translucency, and none of the collapsing behaviour it has on iOS. APPDOOK reads that as Apple carrying the shape of its design system across rather than the effect, which is the sensible line on a platform with its own conventions and far more varied hardware. It also leaves a recognisable Apple app on Android that looks more like iOS than it did last year.

On Apple's own platforms, Liquid Glass has been contested enough that Apple added a macOS 27 control to tone it down. Whether Android users get any such setting, and how the floating bar behaves on older and cheaper Android phones, are the things the beta period should show. Neither has been reported yet.