Apple has significantly driven innovations in the past years. Following that, a new feature was included in the Apple support document labeled “Transfer a copy of your Apple Music playlists to another service.”
According to this document, users can now easily transfer their playlists from Apple Music to YouTube Music. This measure bridges the gap between Apple Music and YouTube Music, which makes it more convenient to manage users’ playlists and collections.
The transfer method is quite straightforward, and it only takes a few minutes, depending on the size and number of playlists that you’re transferring. Furthermore, after you transfer the files, none of the playlists are deleted from Apple Music.
What You Can Transfer!
- Playlists that you’ve created on Apple Music.
- Collaborative playlists.
- Playlists with songs available on YouTube Music
What You Can’t Transfer!
- Music files.
- Curated Playlists and Non-collaborative shared playlists.
- Folders that contain Apple Music playlist.
- Audio files like audiobooks, podcasts, and uploaded audio files.
How to Transfer Your Apple Music Playlist to YouTube Music
Once you read the do’s and dont’s, follow the prompts below to transfer your Apple Music playlists to YouTube Music.
- Ensure you have an active Apple Music and YouTube Music subscription. If not, visit apple.com/music.youtube and make a subscription.
- Visit privacy.apple.com and sign in to your Apple ID.
- Choose Transfer a Copy of your Data and select Request to transfer a copy of your data.
- Select Apple Music Playlists and click on Next.
- Choose your playlist and follow the on-screen prompts to complete your transfer request.
- Then, to start the transfer, you must sign in to your YouTube Music account with credentials.
- Finally, when the transfer is successful, a confirmation email from Apple will display on YouTube Music’s Library tab.
Note: If a specific song is missing in the transferred playlist, then the song might not be available on YouTube Music.