Wrapped 2024: the annual app recaps are here – The Verge

Instagram will let you recap 2024 with a collage for your story

2024-12-16T12:42:47-05:00

Instagram will now let you showcase your favorite moments from 2024 by adding a collage to your story. The new feature, which is only available through the first week of January, lets you combine a bunch of pictures from throughout the year and share them with friends.

You can currently only create collage-like stories by adding a photo to your story, resizing it, moving it around the screen, and then adding more images as stickers. Instagram's layout feature also lets you add multiple photos to a story, but they only appear in a grid format.

Instagram is rolling out some other temporary features as well, including end-of-year-themed "Add …

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Google Photos now has its own version of Spotify Wrapped

2024-12-06T10:00:00-05:00

Every company is trying to copy Spotify these days. | Image: Google

The Google Photos app is rolling out a throwback experience that highlights some of your most memorable moments from this year. The "2024 Recap" presentation feature announced today combines a collection of photos and insights with graphics and cinematic effects that summarize what users have been doing over the last 12 months.

Google Photos has released an annual review feature over the last few years, but this updated experience shares more similarities with Spotify Wrapped.

The 2024 Recap insights include information like how many photos you snapped, the longest photo streak length, most photographed colors, who you took the most photos …

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How to find your 2024 Spotify Wrapped

2024-12-04T09:31:45-05:00

One of the more popular end-of-year items is music service recaps, and one of the best known is Spotify Wrapped. The company puts together a roundup of everything you listened to that year in various statistical formats, wrapped up (well, that's what it's called, right?) in bright, swirling graphics. For 2024, you'll be shown what music categories you followed, how your listening habits changed over the year, get a list of your top 10 songs and artists, check out your top artist of the year, and even see a short video interview with one of the featured artists.

This year's Wrapped also lets you access separate segments, such as a personaliz …

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Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast to recap your listening habits

2024-12-04T08:00:00-05:00

This year's Spotify Wrapped has arrived. As you look at your stats for 2024, you'll find a few new features you can use to interact with your data, including one that lets you listen to and share an AI-generated podcast summarizing your listening habits.

Spotify built this feature using Google's AI note-taking tech, NotebookLM, which can generate a podcast with two AI "hosts" based on your research. On Spotify, the AI hosts will tailor their conversation to your top songs, artists, and genres of the year. This feature is available to free and Premium users in English across the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, and Sweden …

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Apple Music’s yearly recap is finally available in the app

2024-12-03T11:17:10-05:00

Apple Music's yearly recap is back - and this time, it's available to see and share from directly within the app. If your iPhone runs iOS 18.1 or later, you can now access Apple Music Replay 2024 from the Home, New, and Search tabs. Otherwise, you'll have to view your yearly stats from the Apple Replay site, as was the case previously.

Apple has added some new insights to Replay 2024, including whether you've made it onto the list of the top 500, or 1,000 listeners for a particular genre or artist. Additionally, it will display the longest number of days you've consecutively used Apple Music, as well as show your top artists, albums, and so …

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