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Just a quick PSA because this was making me pull my hair out. The Apple Music desktop app on Windows 11 (latest version) has a massive memory leak that doesn't stop growing until you kill it. And of course, it's all "hidden" processes and doesn't appear in Task Manager.

How to check if you're affected

• Quickest way: open Task Manager → Performance tab → click GPU → look at "Shared GPU Memory" usage. Then quit Apple Music from the system tray (right-click → Quit, not just minimize the window) and watch that number drop. If it drops by several gigabytes, you've confirmed it.
• More precise way: open Performance Monitor (Win+R → perfmon) → click the green + button to add counters → find "GPU Process Memory" → add "Shared Usage" and "Local Usage" → filter for the Apple Music instance and watch the values.

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This is the full bug report I sent to Apple if anyone is interested:

Apple Music for Windows allocates and retains approximately 12 GB of GPU-committed memory, comprising both GPU Shared memory (backed by physical RAM) and GPU Local memory (VRAM), while running in the background with no active media playback. This allocation does not appear in Task Manager's Processes tab, which reports only the process Working Set (~104 MB). The hidden allocation is visible exclusively through Windows Performance Counters targeting GPU Process Memory objects. On the test system (32 GB DDR5), this caused system RAM utilization to reach 91%. Terminating Apple Music immediately freed approximately 6 GB of physical RAM.

Observing the leak via Performance Monitor

1. Install Apple Music for Windows and sign in to an Apple Music account.
2. Open the application and allow it to fully load (library sync complete).
3. Do not initiate any media playback. Minimize the application or leave it running in the system tray.
4. Leave the application running in the background for an extended period (exact accumulation timeline not yet established).
5. OpenWindows Performance Monitor(perfmon.exe).
6. Add the counter\GPU Process Memory(*)\Shared Usageand filter for the Apple Music process.
7. Add the counter\GPU Process Memory(*)\Local Usageand filter for the Apple Music process.
8. Compare the GPU memory figures against Task Manager's reported Working Set for the same PID.

On a 32 GB system, Apple Music consumed approximately 37% of total physical RAM while idle and performing no user-visible work. The Task Manager Processes tab gave no indication of this; users cannot identify or attribute the RAM pressure to Apple Music through normal diagnostic tools.

On systems with 16 GB of RAM, this leak would consume the majority of available RAM, causing severe performance degradation, swapping, and potential out-of-memory conditions from a background process. The impact is proportionally worse for users who launch Apple Music at startup.

Because the GPU Shared allocation accumulates while the app is idle, users who leave Apple Music open while using other applications (creative tools, games, browsers) will see unexplained system-wide memory pressure that cannot be diagnosed from Task Manager alone.

Hi everyone!

Last week we integrated our 2nd flight data provider. It should provide us with much more coverage for things like flight schedule information and real-time flight-status.

We need your help! If you notice that Tineo is missing (or slow) flight schedule updates or status, please let us know! Our goal is to integrate one more flight data/status provider (for a total of 3) for the best coverage. For that reason, if our current two providers miss anything, it would be very helpful for us to know so we can make sure the third one we integrate covers any other airlines / real-time status missing.

Thank you for reading! ❤️

THANK YOU for the great feedback, ideas, and reports!

Your feedback and ideas have been incredibly helpful, and a huge amount of what we shipped recently came straight from this community.

PLEASE feel free to always create bug reports, feedback, and feature-requests either in the app or by DMing me on Reddit :).

✨ New

• Expenses redesign with built-in splitting: The Expenses tab has a cleaner summary with per-category bars, per-currency totals and "who paid" shown on every expense. Improved UX for splitting expenses and multiple currencies.
• Apple Maps & Google Maps, your choice: We now support both. Switch the trip map between Apple Maps and Google Maps anytime
• "View email" on imports: Recently imported emails now have a View email button. Open it to read a copy of the original email right next to the flight/stay/ticket it created.
• Text Sizing / Accessibility Improvements: We've made several accessibility improvements and added a user setting under Settings -> Preferences to customize text size on all platforms. (thanks u/ImInundated)
• Uber & Lyft deep links in address shortcuts: Trip addresses can now hand the destination straight to Uber or Lyft, alongside Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, and Copy.
• Tineo Assistant, create support tickets / bug reports / feature requests: Assistant can now create support tickets or bug reports on your behalf.
• Tineo Ultra Lifetime plan: We listened to the feedback about wanting a one-time purchase rather than a subscription for Ultra, and added a subscription-less, pay-once Lifetime plan. Available now on web; it may take a little time to appear in the Apple App Store / Google Play.
• New bus & coach vendors: Added platform integration with intercity coach providers like FlixBus, Megabus, and National Express.
• Smart Day Expansion: A new expand-control dropdown lets you choose how much of each day's plans show at a glance.

🛠 Improved / Fixed

• Email attachments + document imports: Improved import pipeline logic for analyzing and importing attachments in emails and updated UI for viewing attachments.
• Better QR codes and barcodes: Boarding passes, tickets, and QR codes now use one cleaner, consistent viewer across every plan type, with easy swiping when a booking has more than one.
• Faster note editing: Tap the inline pencil to quick-edit a note right on its card, with a Full Editor tab when you want more room.
• Set a missing time in one tap: Plans showing --:-- now let you tap to set or change the time right on the itinerary
• Same-day round trips: Fixed a display issue for connecting flights on the same day.
• Calendar sync time-zone accuracy: Fixed synced events for some plans showing the wrong local time on trips that cross multiple time zones
• Trip invites: Fixed a bug that caused trip invite emails to fail to send in some cases..

🤖 Tineo Assistant + Claude/ChatGPT/Poke

• Trip weather: get a day-by-day forecast for your destination or a specific plan.
• Packing lists: ask the assistant to build a weather- and activity-aware packing checklist for your trip.
• Place details: opening hours and full details for a place, right in the chat.
• Flight change history: see the recorded schedule, gate, and terminal changes for your flight.
• Airport conditions: check delay and on-time conditions for an airport or one of your flights.
• Import troubleshooter: if an email import didn't work, ask why and what to do next.
• Expense summary: ask "who owes whom" and get a clean spend summary plus the simplest way to settle up.
• Day-of-travel brief: day-of intel for your departure airport, like ground transport and delays.
• Travel documents: manage and audit your passports, visas, vouchers, and insurance against a trip.
• Travel stats: your Wrapped-style stats, like countries, miles, nights, and top airlines.

🏗️ In progress

• We're currently testing our new flight-data provider that provides coverage for 90%+ of airlines. This will roll out in the next few days and will lead to improved flight schedule/delay updates for more airlines, as well as price drop detection.
  • This is also coming with some new UI improvements related to the Trip Dashboard for flights.
• Tineo Intelligence & new assistant tools to help you find and book activities, hotels, and other travel-related plans based on your interests (if opted in)

Keep the feedback coming, we're very grateful and appreciative of it! And we do our best to reply to all support requests / suggestions / tickets ASAP!

Hey everyone! Just want to say a genuine thank-you. Your reports have been incredibly helpful and ideas have been fantastic, and a huge amount of what we shipped recently came straight from this community.

PLEASE feel free to always create bug reports, feedback/feature-requests, etc either in the app or by DMing me on Reddit :).

✨ New
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• "View email" on imports
  • Recently imported emails now have a View email button. Open it to read a copy of the original email right next to the flight/stay/ticket it created. [Tineo'er suggestion]
• Uber & Lyft Deep Links in address shortcuts
  • Trip addresses can now hand the destination straight to Uber or Lyft alongside Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze and Copy. [Tineo'er suggestion]
• Tineo Assistant
  • Added tool to create support tickets or bug reports on behalf of users. [Tineo'er suggestion]
• Tineo Ultra - Lifetime plan.
  • We listened to the feedback related to Lifetime rather than subscription for Ultra and have added subscription-less pay once, lifetime plan.
  • Available now on web; it may take a little time to appear in the Apple App Store / Google Play.
• Integrated new bus & coach vendors
• Added platform integration with intercity coach providers like FlixBus, Megabus, and National Express.
• Remove Plans: A trip's removed/deleted plans now have a "Permanently delete all" so you can empty them all at once. [user suggestion]

🛠 Improved / Fixed
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• Email Attachments - Fixed a bug that caused some attachments in emails not to be imported properly.
• Same-day round trips: fixed display issue for connecting flights on the same day.
• Calendar sync time-zone accuracy
  • Fixed synced events for some plans showing the wrong local time on trips that cross multiple time zones (affected iCal feeds, Outlook, and Google calendars).

🏗️ In-Progress
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• Display setting for font size in apps/web.

• Improved/additional import methods

• Improved algorithm for Flighty -> Tineo import

  Keep the feedback coming, we are very grateful and appreciative of it! And we do our best to reply to all support requests/suggestions/tickets ASAP!

 THANK YOU for everyone that has been using Tineo and sending us feedback, feature requests, and bug reports. It has been really, really helpful and I am extremely grateful for how supportive the Tineo community has been. And wow, you guys really have some awesome feature ideas. The new predicted weather display per day feature was actually a user-submitted idea!

Lot's of exciting stuff (and bug fixes) in the past few weeks, and so much more to come!

New data provider (rolling out)

• We're rolling out a new flight-data provider
  • Faster flight schedule updates and more reliable change detection.
  • Better flight price-drop detection.
  • Support for more airlines, coming soon.

Notable new features

• Tineo is now on the Mac App Store!
• Redesigned landing page 
• Tineo Assistant new toolz!
  • TripAdvisor integration: search hotels, restaurants, attractions, and Airbnb stays with rich cards.
  • Better tools for tours, multi-stop activities, conference agendas, and event schedules.
  • Claude connector + ChatGPT App integration: setup page now lives in Settings.
• Better for shared trips: flights now match passengers to the right travelers automatically, so collaborative trips show who's on each booking.
• UI/UX Improvements
  • Interactive maps cleaner labels, numbered stop pins, and a better mobile view.
  • New mobile trip hero and daily weather on your itinerary.
  • Redesigned expenses panel
  • Redesigned trip hero on mobile to optimize layout efficiency
  • Reorganized settings pages.
• Print Itinerary - improved and added two print modes, including a new print optimized simplified mode
• Stats and Wrapped got a major refresh (beta) - see your travel history, stats, and replay your travel. More import options coming soonTM.

Email Import Intelligence Engine

• Improved gmail-sync for users that have enabled automated email import.
• Import emails now call out boarding passes, QR codes, tickets, and saved attachments. Makes it a lot easier to keep track of what was forwarded.
• Imports support more real-world travel docs:
  • TripIt calendar CSV, corporate calendar files, undated brochures/quotes, and tour packages.
• Cruise Import improvements
  • Cruise days + port stops now import more reliably
  • Onboard activities + shore activities are now imported and differentiated in the trip view.
• Smarter understanding of complex bookings:
  • Added support for conference schedule extraction.
  • Improved intelligence engine for complex tour bookings and tour schedules.
  • Improved intelligence engine for cruises.
• Improved city detection on imports and layover detection.
• Better automatic trip naming.
• Added support for email imports with multiple plans to be imported into multiple trips (when applicable) instead of just one.
• Multi-passenger flights with separate bookings now group correctly.
• Improved duplicate detection logic for hotel stays
• Fixed an issue that caused tour packages and brochure-style imports to sometimes fail
• Improved import reliability for European, German/French, rail, and corporate calendar imports.
• Added support for extraction of additional QR Code / Barcodes extraction
• Improved extraction of ICS files.

Notable bug fixes

• Improved Airport Tips & Insights and added support for additional airports.
• Offline Sync - fixed bug that caused sync to fail on slower connections, improved delta-logic for sync
• Trip view and mobile fixes:
  • Improved UI/UX of several dialogs/sizing on mobile devices.
  • Shared trip links show photos again.
  • Trip view loading and mobile layout performance improvements
• Improved logic for weather prediction and fixed bugs that caused weather values to sometimes show zero values or incorrect dates.
• Fixed an issue specific to Outlook Calendar sync that intermittently miscalculated time-zones (love timezone stuff, /s)
• Multi-currency expense totals and settlements no longer mix currencies incorrectly.