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ChatGPT adds Apple Music support, but recommendations still depend on what you share
Apple’s partnership with OpenAI has reached a new milestone with Apple Music now available as an app connection inside ChatGPT.
The feature expands ChatGPT’s music tools beyond Spotify, but it comes with stricter limits because Apple Music does not hand over the same kind of user listening data.
BGR’s José Adorno says the result is useful for drafting playlists and finding tracks, though users may need to provide extra context to get the best outcomes.
Why this matters
Music is one of the most common “everyday” use cases for chatbots, and integrations like this can turn a conversation into something actionable.
But the value depends on how much the AI can learn from your taste and how much the platform lets it see.
With Apple Music, the integration is designed to work without exposing a user’s history or library.
What apple shares
Adorno reports that Apple Music does not give ChatGPT access to a user’s library, playlists, Replay stats, recently played, or listening history.
That’s a major difference from Spotify’s approach, which can provide ChatGPT broader user data to improve personalization.
In practice, ChatGPT can only infer an Apple Music user’s preferences from what they type in chat, or from details they choose to share manually.
How to connect it
Adorno describes the connection process as simple on web, iPhone, and Mac.
Users open ChatGPT, tap their profile, go to Settings, scroll to Apps, and select Apple Music. OpenAI then shows what data is shared and notes that training data preferences still apply.
From there, users can proceed without an account or connect an Apple Music account and start using Apple Music features within ChatGPT.
What you can do
With the integration enabled, ChatGPT can search the Apple Music catalog for artists, albums, tracks, and playlists.
It can also take a user’s track list, match songs to official Apple Music entries, add metadata, and produce playable Apple Music links that function as a draft playlist.
What it cannot do, Adorno notes, is directly create or edit a playlist inside your Apple Music library or change your listening history.
A playlist test
Adorno tested the feature by asking ChatGPT to build a 24-song playlist combining tracks from Blossoms and The Vaccines.
The first version missed newer albums. After he shared screenshots showing his listening habits, ChatGPT revised the playlist, adjusted the sequencing, and added more songs aligned with his preferences while still mixing in deeper cuts.
He also noticed ChatGPT sometimes picked different versions of albums than the ones he already had, which he compared to issues seen in other playlist transfer tools.
