How to transfer Apple Music playlists to YouTube Music

Apple now lets you transfer playlists from Apple Music to YouTube Music so you can listen to music easily between the two platforms. Instead of manually transferring playlists, with the built-in setup, you can easily get Apple Music playlists on your YouTube Music account. Here's how to transfer Apple Music playlists to YouTube Music.

What is Apple Playlist Transfer Tool?

Available on Apple's Data & Privacy page, the native playlist transfer tool is similar to the iCloud Photo Library transfer tool for transferring photos to Google Photos. It's free to use and makes the switch to YouTube Music easy.

Here are some things you should know about this tool:

• You need an active Apple Music subscription and an active YouTube Music account to transfer your playlists.
• You can only transfer Apple Music playlists that you own. This includes playlists you created as well as your own collaborative playlists.
• Any other playlists, such as non-collaborative shared playlists and curated playlists, cannot be transferred.
• You can't transfer playlists that contain anything other than songs, such as podcasts, audiobooks, or uploaded audio files.
• You cannot transfer individual music files.
• You can't move folders that you've organized your Apple Music playlists into.
• If a song in your Apple Music playlist isn't available on YouTube Music, it won't be included in the transferred playlist.
• When you move your playlists to YouTube Music, they'll still be available on Apple Music.

Unfortunately, there are a few limitations, but the tool is still extremely useful.

How to transfer Apple Music playlists to YouTube Music

Step 1:

First, you access Apple's Data and Privacy website at the link below and then log in to your account.

• Apple Data Management Page

Step 2:

Go to the new interface, click on Request to transfer a copy of your data .

Now you see the content you want to export including photos, videos or playlists to another platform. Here we click on YouTube Music Playlist to transfer data.

Step 3:

We will see the number of playlists in the Apple Music account . Click Continue to continue. Then you will be able to select the Google account to transfer the Apple Music playlist to YouTube Music .

Select the Google account you want to transfer and click Continue to continue.

Step 4:

You check View and manage your YouTube Music data and click Continue to continue.

Finally, click Confirm Export to proceed with transferring the playlist from Apple Music to Apple Music.

Immediately after that, the process of transferring the playlist between the two platforms will be performed. Depending on the number of playlists you have, this transfer process may take a long time or not. When this process is complete, we will receive a notification.

Apple's native tool makes switching to YouTube Music easier than ever. It's surprisingly fast, and the transfer happens in the background, so you don't have to open your browser for it to complete.

It’s not perfect, however. First, it doesn’t let you pick any playlists you want to transfer, requiring you to clean up your YouTube Music library afterward to remove unnecessary playlists. And second, it’s limited to transferring playlists to YouTube Music, so those who want to switch to Spotify will still have to rely on third-party tools to transfer their playlists. Hopefully Apple brings this functionality to the table at some point.