iTunes Match can now stream music directly, without having to download

After iOS 6 hit the Developer Center on Monday afternoon, the new iOS’ features have begun to come out.  Today, Apple n Apps has found a new feature that has yet to been uncovered. It involves Apple’s iTunes Match, which was launched last November as a way to scan and match tracks in users’ iTunes library to all of their devices. One of the downfalls of iTunes Match was its absence of streaming music — songs had to be downloaded and couldn’t be played from the cloud. However with iOS 6, songs that are stored on iTunes Match can be streamed, leaving out any need to download songs to your device. Seeing as iTunes Match is $24.99 a year, this is a feature that Apple should have always had around, if you ask me. Perhaps this will encourage some to ditch Spotify and others, which cost roughly $10 a month. However don’t be mistaken, you still have to purchase the music to stream it.

iOS 6 seems to include a lot of small, but useful, changes. For instance, Siri has become a lot more social. Users can now tweet and share a Facebook status update from the personal voice assistant. The social prompts include: “Post to Facebook”, “Post to Twitter”, and simply, “Tweet.” There’s also a spot in Notification Center where users can “Tap to Tweet.”

So when will you be able to get your itching fingers onto iOS 6? Well, if you’re paying for Apple’s iOS Developer Program you can grab it today from the Developer Center, but if you’re just the average iOS fanatic you’ll have to wait until the fall.