It should, and it used to be better than it is today. Now I only use it to open apps, create reminders, etc. When I need information I use the Google assistant. I also use the GA with YouTube music and it rarely plays the wrong song.
I don’t know what’s going on but I’ve also had to turn off autocorrect. The new “crowd sourced” AI autocorrect is highlighting words that are spelled correctly.
I don’t have any complaints about it except when they started selecting songs for us. It was just a matter of turning it off but I don’t want them playing songs they come up with.
Do you really? It really ticked me off. Oh well, to each his own…
The biggest issue I have with the app/service - since they killed iTunes - is that songs from my playlists disappear, I was sometimes not able to download my own songs (not Apple Music but brought into iTunes via iTunes Match - which resulted in a Apple support consultation of several months and me being given my own representative) and that Apple killed all my Album Cover from my own imported Music with some random garbage 
. This may or may not be Apples fault as I believe publishers can handle their music by themselves? But for me it’s a bad experience.
I have pretty much given up on trying to manage my manage in Apple Music and now mostly select some playlist to play on Sonos, which at least for me works hassle free 
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I guess the issue is driven by a lack of consistency. If you like smooth jazz and heavy metal, Spotify might try to find some weird combination of the two (pretty sure this doesn’t exist and is a terrible example, but I’ve come this far!).
I listen broadly to few genres, so I find the discovery works well for me. That said my recommendations have been ruined for a while by two weeks of playing christmas music!
That’s a good example. Just last night I hit play on my most recent discover weekly and it had several (weird) Christmas songs. I listen to my “Christmas Morning” playlist a lot in December. It’s filled with Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, etc. I don’t think there’s a modern version in the whole 100+ song playlist. And I don’t play it after 12/25. But Spotify puts modern Christmas music in my mid January discover weekly.
I like singer-songwriter, indie stuff, but not if it leans country or the vocalist has twang. Spotify can’t get this right at all. Nearly everything it offers me is on the other side of the “is this country?” dividing line. I don’t listen to much Phish on Spotify (that’s what Plex is for), but, nearly every playlist I’ve made on Spotify (a couple dozen) has some Phish in it. That can’t be said of any other band, yet Spotify never recommends Phish to me, only other jam bands with a more country/southern flair.
We listen to John Williams (scores) or classical composers often at dinner. Spotify acts as though these aren’t frequently in my repertoire. Etc. etc.
Yeah Spotify probably doesn’t have a model feature for “vocalist twang” 
I find Apple Music’s recommendations and design very poor - I had a one month trial but I won’t be renewing.
Apple have bought, and closed down, Primephonic with the apparent intention of releasing a specific Apple Music app for classical. Discovery and filtering has long been a problem with classical music on all the generic music apps. It’ll be interesting to see whether they enhance the best of Primephonic or destroy it!
Right now I have YouTube Premium trial. It’s not much better at recommendations, but the design is better and has the advantage that I can listen to lectures from YouTube in the car or while out on a run audio only!
I won’t comment about the design, but recommendations don’t become really useful for a while. you need to Like tracks and it will also use your listening history, but that takes a while to kick in. Depending on how much you’ve used it during your one month trial, it may not have enough info to give good recommendations.
I totally agree! Luckily, it has never deleted any of my music but these days I am almost scared to cut it on. I subscribe to Apple Music and I have iTunes Match. My playlists constantly get screwed up and duplicated. I have a special playlist for Christmas and I was two weeks into the holiday season listening to it before I realized that somehow some of my music had gotten removed from the playlist. Luckily it had not been deleted but then trying to go through on the Mac app song by song and drop them back on to the playlist was a nightmare. The constant self scrolling of the playlist to a certain point was about to drive me bonkers. I have a ton of music and it took way longer to do what I needed to do than it should have.
What does the music match do and would someone actually need both that and the regular Apple Music?
iTunes Match takes your personal library and syncs it to the cloud so that you can download/access on other devices. It’s not necessary if you pay for Apple Music already. My personal library only has iTunes Match (has for years) but I don’t plan to renew after this year expires.
thanks so much! I couldn’t figure out what I was.