The SiriusXM App gets a major upgrade: Here’s what you need to know

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The new SiriusXM Streaming app, launching on December 14, features a refreshed brand platform and a newly-priced Streaming All Access Plan for $9.99 a month. The new app will be available on the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon Fire devices on December 14. More platforms and features coming in early 2024. 

This redesigned app will offer listeners a more personalized, easy-to-use, lean-back streaming experience that puts discovery at the forefront. Some of the key features of the new SiriusXM app are:

Always-On Personalization & Curation: Listeners will be greeted with four curated sections: Music, Talk & Podcasts, Sports, and For You, a customized landing page for each listener. Personalized touch points will enhance the app experience—even during playback, where listeners who reach their skip limits will be presented with alternative recommendations, allowing them to switch to content that matches their mood.

Greater Content Discovery: New pages dedicated to teams, shows, channels, artists and more will bring fans closer, allowing them to explore what they love in depth.

Revamped Playback: The new and improved media player will be optimized for each type of content, with new audio segments allowing listeners to jump to key moments; transcription and speed control for podcasts and on-demand talk content; live listening updates for sports and beyond; enhanced airplay and casting; and more.

Enhanced Search: Upgraded search capabilities will make it easier for users to quickly find who or what they are looking for, while the new search home page will provide curated recommendations for listeners who are looking to discover more.

Improved Podcast Listening: Podcasting holds a special place in the new SiriusXM app, with an expanded library and new features such as key moment markers.

Central Audio Library: A revamped library will allow fans to save the content they love—from live channels to on-demand and podcasts, from artists and bands to teams and leagues—in one centralized location, with new offline listening and download capabilities.

Interactive Onboarding: New subscribers will be invited to tailor their SiriusXM experience at sign-on by selecting artists, genres, personalities, leagues, and topics that they love, then browse through and sample tailored channel recommendations with a simple swipe.

To celebrate the launch of the new SiriusXM app on December 14, the company will also introduce new guest DJ channel takeovers from over 160 of the world’s top artists and bands, ranging from Olivia Rodrigo and Cardi B to Alice Cooper and Luke Combs.