Well, this is gross. iOS will put on “ambient music” the way it is will play white noise for you. It doesn’t identify the artists.
I checked out the four options it gives you, representing the four canonical subgenres of ambient music: Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Well-Being.
It is all shit. Suzanne Ciani and Pulse Emitter it is not. It is some averaged and filtered spa bullshit, like a politician that’s been focus grouped to death. I would not surprised if it was A.I., but it does stream, so I don’t think it’s a model running from your phone at least. Most likely, they went with the Spotify model and hired producers to give them some glurge for a flat fee.
And oddly, they tuned it to be too sugary to be “chill” or relaxing because it will make you angry in a way that Aeon or the Cro-Mags never could. The piano stuff in particular has a Walking in Memphis kind of tonal shape that’ll make you want to smash a waiting room window with a hammer.
Anyway, at this point, once this phone dies, I’m seriously considering the Light Phone, which sounds like it’s pretty stable at this point.