Can you move Apple music playlists?

Music streaming services make it a little difficult to move your favorite songs when you decide to change your preferred service. If you’re moving from Apple Music to Spotify, we’ll show you how to take your playlists with you.

How to Move Playlists From Apple Music to Spotify

As much as we’d love to show you a native way to migrate your Apple Music playlists to Spotify, it’s just not possible. That’s why we’re going to enlist a third-party tool to get the job done.

That tool is called “Tune My Music,” which is a simple website allowing you to move your songs from one streaming service to another. They offer paid plans, but its free tier allows you to move up to 1000 songs at a time from Apple Music to Spotify. If you have more than 1000 songs to move, you can always repeat the process to port your entire library.

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To get started with porting your playlists, open Tune My Music in any browser and select “Let’s Start” on the home page.

Tune My Music will now ask you to select the source service. Since we’re bidding adieu to Apple Music, that’s the one we’ll select. So, go right ahead and hit “Apple Music.”

After selecting Apple Music as the source service, you’ll see a pop-up asking you to connect your Apple Music account with Tune My Music. Enter your Apple Music credentials (which is essentially your Apple ID email address and password) and sign in. On the next page, Apple will ask you to confirm if you want to allow Tune My Music to access your Apple Music library. Click “Allow.”

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Once Tune My Music has access to your Apple Music library, it’ll show you all the playlists in your account. You can scroll down to the “Playlists” section and uncheck the playlists you don’t want to transfer. If you select all and try to transfer your massive music library in one go, be aware that it takes a long time to move everything from Apple Music to Spotify.

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When you’re done selecting the playlists to transfer, click “Next: Select Destination.”

On the next page, select “Spotify” from the list of music streaming services, since that’s where we’re sending our Apple Music playlists.

You’ll see another pop-up asking you to sign in to your Spotify account. Once you’ve logged in, you can read what Tune My Music will be allowed to access, scroll down, and click the “Agree” button to proceed.

This will take you back to Tune My Music, where you can check how many songs are being moved from Apple Music to Spotify. When you’re done, click “Start Moving My Music.”

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Now you can sit back, relax, and fire up your favorite playlist while you wait for Tune My Music to complete the transfer. When it’s done, your Apple Music playlists will show up on Spotify. Tune My Music will mark some missing songs in red during the transfer. It’s worth pointing out that sometimes these songs may have a slightly different name on Spotify, so you may be able to locate them after all.

As we mentioned before, you can repeat this process on Tune My Music multiple times, until you’ve brought all your music to Spotify. Discovering new music on Spotify is easy as well.

In case Spotify isn’t working for you, here’s how to move your playlists back to Apple Music.

RELATED: How to Transfer Spotify Playlists to Apple Music


You want to switch from Apple Music to Spotify but you don't want to lose your Apple Music playlists and favorites songs? Using TuneMyMusic you can easily move your entire Apple Music library to Spotify in the most convenient way.

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II've been trying to rearrange a playlist in Apple Music that I've added songs too. I added th m in a random order and I just want to rearrange it manually. I've tried to drag and drop the songs into the order I want but as soon as I press done it's not left in the order I arranged it. If I just do it one song at a time that doesn't work either. Random songs get moved and not the ones I moved. Any help please? I'm pull my hair out now!

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Jan 10, 2016 1:03 PM in response to Kaz85uk In response to Kaz85uk

Hi Kaz85uk,

The iPhone User Guide below shows how to rearrange the songs on the playlist created on your iPhone. I've highlighted the key information for you. Click on the link for complete details.

iPhone User Guide - Playlists

Create playlists to organize your music. If you’re an Apple Music member, tap My Music, tap Playlists, then tap New Playlist. (If you’re not an Apple Music member, tap Playlists at the bottom of the screen.) Enter a title, then tap Add Songs. Select songs and albums to add to the playlist. The most recently changed playlist appears as the first choice when you add songs to a playlist.

You can also tap

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next to a song or album, tap Add to a Playlist, then tap New Playlist.

To customize your playlist’s artwork, tap

Can you move Apple music playlists?
, then take a photo or choose an image from your photo library.

Share a playlist. To share a playlist, tap

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next to it, tap
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, then choose a sharing option.

View particular playlists. In addition to playlists you create, Playlists includes playlists you added from Apple Music, as well as those shared with you. To view just the playlists you created, tap All Playlists, then tap My Playlists. You can also choose to see just Apple Music Playlists or only the playlists saved on iPhone.

Create a Genius playlist. In My Music tap

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next to a song, then tap Create Genius Playlist.

Edit a playlist you created on iPhone. Select the playlist, then tap Edit.

  • Add more songs: Tap Add Songs.

  • Delete a song: Tap

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    , then tap Delete. Deleting a song from a playlist doesn’t delete it from iPhone.

  • Change the song order: Drag

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    .

New and changed playlists are added to iCloud Music Library and appear on all your devices if you’re an Apple Music member or iTunes Match subscriber. If you’re not a member or subscriber, they’re copied to your music library the next time you sync iPhone with your computer.

Delete a playlist you created on iPhone. Tap

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next to the playlist, then tap Delete from My Music.

Take care,

Jan 10, 2016 1:03 PM

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