Apple Music is preparing to let subscribers turn their living rooms into recording booths with Selfie Sing, a feature that captures video of users performing karaoke directly inside the app. The tool is tied to iOS 27.3, which is currently available in beta and is expected to reach iPhones broadly in December.
What Selfie Sing Actually Does
Selfie Sing builds on the karaoke function Apple introduced in 2022 under the name Sing, which allowed listeners to take over a song’s vocal track. The new version adds a camera component: users can film themselves while the lyrics scroll upward on screen in real time, then save or share the resulting clip without opening a separate recording app.
The experience is not available across Apple Music’s entire library. Instead, the company has packaged the feature with a dedicated playlist, and only songs on that list can be used for a Selfie Sing recording so far. Apple described the playlist as a collection of tracks that audiences tend to know by heart and that reliably get a room singing along.
The Launch Playlist
The initial selection leans on pop and country staples from several decades. According to the current lineup, it includes:
- Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”
- One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful”
- Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”
- Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time”
- Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5”
To use the feature, a user picks a song from that playlist, grants camera access, and begins recording. Before saving or sending the video to friends, they can adjust the vocal sound with options that include Megaphone, Echo, Concert Hall and Studio, and they can also change the vocal volume.
Arriving Alongside Other iOS 27.3 Changes
Selfie Sing is one part of a larger software update. The iOS 27.3 beta also brings additional Siri AI capabilities and a redesigned Health app to the iPhone. Apple has not yet given an exact release date beyond the expected December window.
The feature arrives as short-form performance videos remain a familiar format on social platforms, but Apple’s approach keeps the recording, vocal adjustment and sharing steps inside its music service. For now, the catalog limits mean users will be working from a small, curated set of crowd-pleasers rather than choosing any track in Apple Music’s library.
Whether the playlist expands or the feature eventually supports more of the catalog is not something Apple has detailed. What is clear is that Selfie Sing reframes karaoke as something to capture and pass along, not just something to do in the moment. The beta gives early testers a first look, while the wider iPhone audience will have to wait for the December rollout to try it themselves.
