Apple Music subscribers can now switch their playlists over to YouTube Music, in response to a recent support document spotted by MacRumors. Up till now, Apple didn’t provide native instruments for transferring playlists to rival music providers, making YouTube Music the primary.
There are some caveats, nevertheless. Solely songs out there on YouTube Music might be transferred over, which implies you gained’t have the ability to migrate audio recordsdata like podcasts or audiobooks. You can also’t switch curated or non-collaborative shared playlists, music recordsdata, or the folders you’ve created to arrange playlists in Apple Music.
To maneuver your playlists over to YouTube Music, you need to have an energetic Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription, in addition to an energetic YouTube Music account. As soon as logged into Apple’s Data and Privacy page, merely choose “Switch a replica of your information” and observe the onscreen directions. Relying on what number of playlists you’re migrating, it might take wherever from a couple of minutes to some hours.
Apple Music nonetheless doesn’t enable customers to switch playlists to different providers, although, so that you’ll nonetheless want to make use of a third-party device to maneuver your playlists to Spotify, Amazon Music, and different streaming providers. Nevertheless, Apple is perhaps trying into making importing playlists simpler. In February, Redditors noticed an Apple Music on Android beta that allows you to use third-party service SongShift natively, permitting you to maneuver playlists from Spotify and different providers to Apple Music.