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Suno adds AI song generation to iMessage
Suno’s latest iPhone app update lets users generate 30-second songs inside iMessage from text or voice prompts.
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Suno has added iMessage integration to its iPhone app, letting users generate a 30-second music clip directly inside Apple’s messaging app.
According to Suno, people using the latest version of its iPhone app can create a song from a text or voice prompt without leaving a chat. The option appears after tapping the plus button in an iMessage conversation and selecting Suno.
Users can also paste in a friend’s message as a prompt and choose a genre for the generated audio, the company says. There is one catch: the person receiving the song must also have the Suno app installed to listen to it.
The Engadget piece is sharply critical of the feature, arguing that sending a handmade voice note would be more personal than sharing an automatically generated clip. It also points to ongoing concerns around Suno’s training data, describing the system as having scraped tens of millions of tracks from the internet for training, allegedly including many copyrighted works.
For now, the update gives Suno another distribution channel on the iPhone — this time inside one of the most widely used messaging apps.
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