Apple Music Users Can Now Transfer Their Playlists to YouTube Music

Apple has published a new tool that lets Apple Music users transfer their playlists to YouTube Music. The company mentioned the new web-based tool in a support page spotted by MacRumors, and YouTube Music is currently the only music service where Apple Music users can transfer their playlists.

Apple’s music transfer service is available from the company’s Data and Privacy page, and it requires an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription. There,  users will need to choose “Transfer a copy of your data” and follow the instructions to transfer their playlists to their YouTube Music account.

Apple’s support page details that transferring playlists to YouTube Music won’t delete them from Apple Music. Only the playlists that Apple Music users have created (including collaborative playlists) will be transferred, and shared playlists and the ones curated by Apple will be excluded. And as you can probably expect, user-uploaded audio files and songs that aren’t available on YouTube Music will also be left out.

Various third-party tools already exist for transferring playlists between music streaming services, but they’re usually not free. It’s good that Apple is now offering a free transfer tool, but it remains to be seen if the company will add support for Spotify and other services down the line. And it will likely be a while until all music streaming services offer a similar tool, if they ever do it.

Update 11:40 AM ET: A separate Apple support page details how to transfer a copy of your YouTube Music playlists to Apple Music using Google Takeout, but it doesn’t seem to be working as of this writing. The linked Google Takeout page says that Apple Music support is “coming soon.”