Buried among the splashier (and glassier) announcements from Apple's WWDC conference this month were a bunch of modest improvements to Apple Music, including an AutoMix feature and lyrics translation. There's also another feature that didn't even make the Apple Newsroom press release: full screen animated album art on the iPhone lock screen.
As the name suggests, the new feature replaces the standard cover art with a fancy animated version when the phone is locked, and reports suggest it could come to third party apps like Spotify too. But for me, this tiny feature announcement marks a new step in the troubling march away from what makes the best album art, well, the best album art.
