You can now transfer your Apple Music playlists to YouTube Music

Music streaming services have become a juicy pie where every new feature offered can attract a new user. And given what we have seen, the world of services is becoming one of the most profitable in the technology world today. Some, like Apple Music, maintain their essence while maintaining the price with discrete new features, while other services like Spotify increase the prices of their different subscriptions annually. Apple has taken a new step today publish new support documents informing that it allows transferring playlists to and from YouTube Music.

We explain how to do this below.

Apple Music lets you transfer playlists to and from YouTube Music

One of the handicaps when changing streaming music services is the difficulty of moving all the music in playlist or playlist format from one service to another. In fact, it would not make sense to lose all our playlists in the change since one of the advantages of these services is that they allow us to store our favorite music in a perfectly organized way. And the fact of limiting and not giving options to transfer these playlists is something that each of the platforms often plays with.

Google and Apple have always had a certain degree of good relations, especially on the business side, and this is reflected once again in a new feature: Apple has just released that it allows the transfer of playlists to and from YouTube Music. In fact, the support document only mentions YouTube Music as the only platform to transfer all playlists to. Forget about other services like Amazon Music, Spotify, or Pandora.

How to move your playlists from one service to another

To carry out the transfer between Youtube Music and Apple Music It is necessary to have a subscription to both services at the time of transfer. In addition, Apple warns about several aspects to take into account: only playlists created by us will be transferred (even collaborative ones), local music will not be transferred, nor will personalized playlists recommended by Apple Music or those created by them. In addition, they guarantee that only songs or albums available on YouTube Music will be transferred, leaving aside episodes of podcasts, audiobooks or songs not available on the Google service.

To make the transfer, simply follow these steps:

1. Go to page Apple Data and Privacy then sign in to your Apple ID account.
2. Select Transfer a copy of your data.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the transfer request. To start it, you must log in to your account. YouTube Music.
4. When you initiate a transfer, Apple sends email notifications to the addresses associated with your Apple ID account.
5. You can check the status of the transfer or cancel it on the Data & Privacy page.

Apple warns that The process usually takes a few minutes, but it can take several hours. depending on the number of playlists we are willing to transfer.