If Apple Music is at the centre of your listening experience, you may want to customize it to your liking.
Video is widely considered the natural next step for album cover artwork, but some listeners find it gimmicky or prefer a static image. This is how to disable animated cover art in Apple Music.
Albums distributed on physical media always had strong cover artwork to accompany the music, but this was always a static image. Now that online music on electronic devices makes up the vast majority of listenership, artists and platforms are leverage the technology to include videos and animations in album artwork.
However, some of us don’t care about this movement when listening to music. For those of you who find animated cover art annoying, tacky, or dislike the way animation has been worked into legacy artwork, this is how to turn it off.
However, on macOS, it’s automatically disabled when Low Power Mode is active, and enabled when Low Power Mode is off. This is presumably to save battery power.
