Many iOS apps are universal, meaning an app works on both iPhone and iPad by sharing some aspects of the code, but it also has unique lines of code that allow the app to recognize whether it’s being used on an iPhone or iPad. The Google Play Music app is one example, but the iPad version hasn’t been officially released yet and coders are having a field day.
Unfortunately, if you’re using Google Play Music, you’ve been stuck with the iPhone app for a long time and that’s probably not a big deal, but we guess you want to use the app. a larger screen.
Today is your lucky day, because the iPad version of Google Play Music is hidden inside the iPhone version, and you don’t even need to be a coder or programmer to activate the iPad version. However, you will need to jailbreak it. If you’re already jailbroken, that’s half the battle, and you’re likely at least a little familiar with the iOS backend, so activating the iPad version of Google Play Music shouldn’t be too difficult for you.
Instructions
Before we start with the instructions officially, you will need the iFile app from Cydia, so if you haven’t installed it yet, go to Cydia and download it. It costs a few dollars, but it does some good if you go to jail.
Of course, we anticipate that Google will officially release the iPad version soon, so if your iPad is not jailbroken, we won’t worry too much about it as you will get the iPad app sooner or later. . For now, you can simply download the iPhone app to your iPad and have it cover the entire iPad screen using 2x mode. It will be a little pixelated, but it’s better than nothing.
However, if you’re an avid user of Google Play Music and have a jailbroken iPad, there’s really no reason not to enable this little tweak to get the full iPad version a little sooner.
Google Play Music for iOS launched in November with a free 30-day trial of the service’s All Access streaming service for new users. While the app is slowly gaining popularity (especially among loyal Google users), other music streaming services like Spotify and Rdio still remain strong, and once Google releases the iPad version of its iOS app, there will be tough competition to go. against.
We hope that Google will re-offer a free 30-day trial to celebrate the launch of the iPad app to engage more users, but we wouldn’t be surprised if Spotify continues to lead.
As for when we’ll officially see the iPad version of Google Play Music, everyone is guessing, but 9to5Mac says They initially reached out to someone at Google who thought the app was already released, so it’s very possible that Google Play Music for iPad has already been submitted to the iTunes App Store and is just pending approval.
It takes several days (or even up to a week) to get approved for an app submission, so we wouldn’t be surprised if this were the case. That said, we should see the iPad version hit the public sometime this week, and we’ll keep our eyes peeled.
