How to share your Apple Music playlist

Short version: you can only share playlists now through setting up your profile on Apple Music now. The share option after editing a playlist won’t exist until you do.

Hi FredZepplin2020,

Thanks for reaching out about sharing a playlist with Apple Music. We can help with this. What happens when you try to share it? Do you get an error message? Have you tried to send it to different people? If not, try that to make sure there isn't an issue with just one person.

Use these steps on how to share a playlist:

1.  Open the Apple Music app on your mobile device (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad)
2. Tap "Playlists" in the "Library" tab.
3. Scroll to find the playlist you wish to share. Tap or click to open it.
4. Tap or click the three-dots icon at the top of the playlist page to open a pop-up menu.
5. Tap or click "Share Playlist…"
6. Choose from the many options listed to share your playlist as you like. You can tap a recent contact at the top, use AirDrop with nearby devices, or choose to send by email or social media. Swipe left or right over the app shortcuts to scroll through more options. Some may allow you to add a message when sending. Finally, you can tap the "Copy" option to copy a link to the playlist, which you can then paste anywhere.

Take Care.

Same thing. No new playlists created are able to be shared. You can go to Apple Music on a Mac and get the share link though. So it's June 22nd now and it's still not fixed?! Wow. Reminds me of the iTunes neglect all over again.

barrett 116, did you read the thread? Here’s one of the many posts that explains the solution:

Just fixed this. On the Playlist you want to send:

• Hit the three dots (ellipsis) on upper right corner
• Hit Edit
• Then "Show on My Profile and in Search" toggle will show in middle of screen; select it
• Hit Done

The "Share Playlist" option should now appear when you hit the three dot ellipsis.

If you haven't set up your Apple Music profile you may need to do that first. To do that, go to your "Listen Now" page on Apple Music, hit the Face button on upper right and follow prompts.

I think sharing our playlists on our Apple Music profile is the price we now pay to share them...but you can control who sees your Apple Music profile by hitting Edit on your profile homepage and selecting "People You Approve" under "Who Can Follow Your Activity".

For each playlist you want to share and don't see "Share playlist", you'll have to tap the three dots at the top-right corner of the playlist > Edit > then enable "show on my profile". Once you do that the Share option will show.

I had the same problem and none of the suggested solutions worked for me.

I made a new playlist and added every song from the unshareable playlist and then I could share the new, identical playlist.

None of the suggestions I found helped. Here’s what I did: I created a new playlist and copied everything from the one to the new one, which had the share option. Still don’t know what the problem is with the old one.

Presstunn, you have to create a profile in order to share playlists. Kinda dumb but that’s how it works now. See TadMadDad’s answer above for instructions.

To fix this press the three dots then hit add to a playlist. Add it to a new playlist then you will be able to share it.

Because of the iOS update and inability to share playlists made after 14.5.1, copy the songs from and older playlist to a new one, then rename it. Now copy the songs from your new playlist made after 14.5.1 and paste them into the older playlist made prior to 14.5.1. No you can share it.

To resolve this issue, just enable the wifi, bluetooth and airdrop on your phone ans the share playlist option will come up there under three dots (...)

iOS support team.

I can’t do it from my phone but I can still share it from “music” on my computer.

All you gotta do it make sure u created a profile then click the 3 dots while on the playlist you are trying to share and click the thumbs down icon at the bottom and then I click it and get out the app and go back to the playlist and click the 3 dots and it should pop up. This worked for me

go to Apple Music website on your laptop... there is "share" option... click on it and select the copy link... but don't share... when you do this action, it automatically activates "share" option on your iPhone Playlist dropdown....

Sharing an iPhone music playlist with a friend used to be "insanely" simple and easy. Now Apple has deleted the old "Share Playlist" option and replaced it with an insanely complicated, multi-step process that requires us first to set up a "Music Profile" and then to send a link. I just spent fifteen minutes on the phone with an Apple tech representative who agreed that this is a big step backwards for Apple. He said he now has to explain the new "Profile" requirement to users over and over.

Why, oh why, Apple do you take simple easy things and make them complicated and user-unfriendly?