Tech Desk
Aug 28, 2024
Apple has introduced a new feature that now lets Apple Music users transfer their playlists to YouTube Music easily.
The tech giant revealed in its support document, “Apple Music subscribers who want to transfer their playlists over to YouTube Music can now use Apple's Data and Privacy page.”
The export tool aims to enable Apple users to manage their music collection more conveniently. However, YouTube Music is the only supported music service for playlist transfers while the tech giant doesn’t allow transfer to other services such as Spotify.
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Apple Music files that can be transferred
- Playlists such as collaborative playlists can be transferred.
- Playlists can include only songs available on YouTube Music. However, podcasts, audiobooks, or user-uploaded audio files won’t be transferred.
- Music files aren’t transferred.
- Non-collaborative shared playlists aren't transferred.
- The folders in which the Apple Music playlists are organised aren't transferred.
How to transfer Apple Music playlists to YouTube Music
- First, go to "Apple’s Data and Privacy page" and sign in to your Apple ID (now called Apple Account).
- Now, select “Transfer a copy of your data.”
- Then, follow the onscreen instructions to complete the transfer request.
- However, you will need to sign in to your YouTube Music account to initiate the transfer.
Once the transfer process has been completed, all playlists from Apple Music will appear in the Library tab in YouTube Music. The playlists transferred to YouTube Music won’t be deleted from Apple Music.
