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With the release of iOS 17.2 later this year, the Apple Music Collaborative Playlists feature is one of the upcoming features. As the name suggests, you can invite someone to collaborate on a playlist on the music streaming service.
This feature will be available for iPhone and iPad, although Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV users will also be able to stream these playlists. Here's how to make the most of the new feature.
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How to create a collaborative playlist on Apple Music
On your iPhone running iOS 17.2, follow these steps:
- Open Apple Music and select a playlist or create a new one;
- In the top right corner there is an icon to add someone to the playlist
- You can choose to initiate collaboration or approve collaborators
- If you choose to start collaboration, you can share a link or QR Code with a friend or family member
This link/QR Code works for seven days. Apple Music says you can generate a new link if you want to prevent others from joining your list with the current link. Once this person – or these people – joins your playlist, you will see the songs they added and their names at the end of the list.
If you don't want people to collaborate on your playlist, you can tap the two people icon in the top right corner and choose “Stop Collaborating.” Once that's done, you can remove the songs someone else added and make the playlist yours again.
There's another new feature for collaborative playlists on Apple Music
In a future software update, Apple Music users will be able to react (using an emoji) to a song added to a playlist. So you and your friends can add a smiley face to a happy song, a heart to a love song, or even a sad face to a sad song.
Unfortunately, this feature is not available in the current iOS 17.2 beta test, but should be available later.
