GarageBand User Guide for iPhone
Because GarageBand for Mac offers features and functionality not found in GarageBand for iPhone, you can’t import a GarageBand for Mac song to GarageBand for iPhone. In Logic Pro and GarageBand for Mac, you can share a special GarageBand for iPhone-compatible version of your project to iCloud. You can add, edit, and arrange new tracks in. Download additional sounds and loops. Jam with other GarageBand users. Use other music apps with GarageBand. Use iCloud with GarageBand. Mirror GarageBand to an Apple TV. Use keyboard shortcuts. Create and save songs in GarageBand for iPhone. When you first open GarageBand, a new, empty song is created automatically. You can create. Import a song from the Music app into GarageBand for iPhone. You can import songs from the Music app on your iPhone into Tracks view. You can import a song to an existing Audio Recorder or Amp track, or have GarageBand create a new Audio Recorder track for the song.
Tracks view shows a representation of musical time moving from left to right. Each Touch Instrument has a track where its recordings appear as colored regions. The playhead moves across the ruler as the song plays, showing the part currently playing. You can move the playhead to hear a different part of the song. You can also zoom and scroll in Tracks view.
Open Tracks view
- Tap the Tracks View button in the upper-left part of the control bar.The Tracks View button is available after you make the first Touch Instrument recording in a song.
Play the current song
Go to the beginning of the song
- Tap the Go to Beginning button in the control bar. If the song is playing, it starts over from the beginning.
Move the playhead
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- Drag the playhead to the point on the ruler where you want to start playback. If the song is playing, it continues from the new location.
Start playback from any position
- Double-tap the position on the ruler where you want to start playback. The playhead moves to that position and playback starts.
Scroll Tracks view
- Swipe left or right across an empty part of the screen to move forward or back to a different part of the song.
Zoom Tracks view horizontally
Continue playing after you close GarageBand
- Tap the Settings button in the control bar.On iPhone 8, iPhone 7, or iPhone 6s, tap the Settings button in the control bar, then tap Song Settings.
- Tap Advanced.
- Tap Run in Background.
- To improve performance when running GarageBand in the background with other music apps, turn on Use with Music Apps.
When Run in Background is turned on, GarageBand continues playing after you close it, or when you open another app from the app switcher. If recording is active when you close GarageBand, you can continue recording. A red bar at the top of the display indicates that GarageBand is still playing and recording in the background.
If a Touch Instrument is open when you close GarageBand, you can continue playing it. If an Audio Recorder, Amp, or Sampler Touch Instrument is open when you close GarageBand, you can continue recording or playing it.
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When “Use with Music Apps” is turned on, you may notice a delay when playing some Touch Instruments.