Here’s how to transfer your playlists from Apple Music to YouTube Music, and vice versa

Apple Music and YouTube Music have been allowing you to transfer playlists between their services since this week, a possibility limited to the songs available and requiring an active account on both. Switching streaming services can mean losing playlists that you have created, sometimes spending a lot of time to make them fit specific times of the day, such as working out, going to and from work to clean the house, or even your mood. Apple and Google are looking to avoid this situation with the new export tool. It is an addition to the one currently available that allows you to transfer photos and videos between iTunes and Google Photos, only now it also makes a copy of the songs to take them to the other music service. FROM APPLE MUSIC TO YOUTUBE MUSIC To be able to transfer the playlist from Apple Music to YouTube, the first thing is to make sure that you have an active account on both services, since you are required to log in to them. If we start with Apple Music as the source, the first thing to do is go to the ‘Data and Privacy’ section and log in to the Apple ID account. Once done, you can select the option ‘Transfer a copy of your data’ and choose the Apple Music button. In order for the transfer to take place, you also need to log in to your YouTube Music account. The process guides the user in a very straightforward manner. It can take a few minutes or several hours to complete, depending on the number of playlists the user wants to move from one service to the other. Once it is complete, the user receives an email confirming the complete transfer of the playlists. FROM YOUTUBE MUSIC TO APPLE MUSIC The opposite process is also possible, meaning users can transfer the playlists they have created on YouTube Music to Apple Music. This case also requires an active subscription to both services. In this case, the user has to go to Google Takeout, the Google service that facilitates the export of data from its services, and scroll down the list until you find the YouTube Music option. You must make sure that only this option is selected, because Takeout may mark all the services by default. Once verified, the next step is to choose the destination service (Apple Music) and log in with the Apple ID account. To allow the transfer, you need to accept the permission that Google requests to share data with Apple Music. Once done, the process will begin, which again can take a few minutes or several hours. When it is completed, you will also receive a notification in the email COPYING PLAYLISTS The playlists created by the user will appear in the destination service. However, this process depends on the songs included in them being available in both services so that they can be replicated. This means that if Apple Music or YouTube Music does not have any song from the lists that have been transferred, they will not be displayed. It may also happen that the lists have more songs than allowed in the destination, and therefore some are missing, to comply with the limit. Transferring the lists does not mean that they are deleted in the source service. But if the user updates the list in Apple Music, for example, this change will not be reflected in the same YouTube Music list, because there is no synchronization between the two.