How to share your Apple Music playlist

ooen Your music app, click on listen now, click your profile in the upper left hand corner create a profile, after you click on the red link to create a profile or whatever color it is, it’ll let you select which playlist you want visible I believe, who can/cannot follow you, and you will be allowed to share your playlist! It only took me 45 years to figure this out lol hope it helps!

That is only solution for few people. Lots of people who already do have profiles they still have problems with missing share options for some or most of their playlists, especially with playlists one imports from Spotify etc

You need to do this plus you need to follow the other solutions

cheers

I was having the same problem.

To solve you need toncreate an apple music profile and after it is done the option tonshare the playlist will re apear.

To create the profile just go to listen now option on the lower part of the app, then touch the profile icon on the top right corner.

Worked for me.

Hope it helps

I have the same problem and none of the listed solutions work, or appear possible for me.

First of all, I am looking to share a particular playlist (that I have had for years, and somehow just up and left my phone). While other playlists have the share option, then particular playlist does not. It's not the only one. Several of my playlists are shareable, and several are not. I suspect this is the problem that many other people are having. And I also suspect that this

Other things. None of my playlists have an edit option that I can find. I DO have a profile.

I found something that might be helpful to some: The addition of certain songs on a playlist will make the playlist non-shareable.

Specifically, over time, and through the vagaries of iTunes, we have collected multiple “copies” of several songs. But even though the song shows up two, three or four times, some of the copies are apparently not attached to any files.

As soon as I add one of the songs to a playlist, that playlist loses the “share” pulldown option and disappears from my iPhone. I can reproduce this multiple times with different songs.

So as I went to rebuild my playlist, I had to pay attention to which icons show up on the right side of the song list, next to the songs I wanted to add. If I get a little round red icon, I delete that copy and use a different one. As long as I stick to that, no problems.

I found the answer!!! This fixed the missing share button for me. It has something to do with the version iOS you created the playlist on and the current iOS. To fix:

-Create a new play list and name it whatever you want (it could be the same name of the list you are about to import).

-Go to the playlist you want to share, tap the three dots, select Add to Playlist.

-Select the NEW play list you just made.

All of the songs from your old playlist will be imported to the new playlist and the share button will be there.

I delete the old playlist to stay neat.

I hope this helps.

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?

You need to create your profile first. Go to Listen Now > tap your profile icon at the top-right > Set up profile. Once you create it, you'll see "show on my profile" when you click Edit on a playlist.

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.

Just spent 40 minutes, talking with three different Apple tech consultants, just so I could share my Playlist, filled with music I bought on Apple iTunes, from my iPad to my iPhone! Simple enough…. Right?

Evidently, I cannot share the list from my iPad device to my iPhone device, unless I purchase Apple Music subscription….

OR purchase an adapter, so I can plug in my iPad to my iMac to transfer my Playlist to iMac, them connect my iPhone to my iMac to transfer my Playlist from my iMac to my iPhone…. Really⁉️ 😖

What a crazy circuitous solution, that a 1980s databases could more easily resolve. So much for Apple’s elegance!

Feeling very frustrated with apple at the moment. Spend thousands a year on apple devices, music, films, series etc and want to be able to share playlists and get an icloud account so can easily upload music and movies etc that I purchased through iTunes (not Apple Music subscription) and I cannot through my phone or iPad’s. Only way is through my MacBook. Apple has always been the best operating system because it catered to users needs. It is failing to do so to satisfy some level of greed. I.e. have to buy a MacBook or a subscriptions to get any functionalities. If they keep this up users will move to more user friendly operating systems.

Okay Apple… thanks to your idiotic updates that come out all the time and don’t actually do anything unless there is a phone launch…. I am unable to simply share a playlist through your over glorified Apple Music app. I would appreciate a direct reply.

I am contemplating why I even switched back to Apple given YouTube Music was the same amount and had more music. I simply have your product because of FaceTime and iMessage. Figure out your product and fix it.

thank you!

It is so unlike Apple to make something extremely simple - like sharing my playlist between my devices - into a circuitous nightmare! I spent over 45 minutes on AppleCare and had to bother three different technicians!

I thought iCloud was invented…. to simply resolve synchronizing, between all Apple devices!?

What happened to Apple’s elegance! 😖

Wait…. You recreated a duplicate playlist, under a different name, and the duplicate had a ‘share’ option?

Did you use ‘Add to Playlist’ option to recreate the duplicate?… Not certain what the purpose of that action was, anyways!?

"What happened to Apple's elegance?" Indeed it is in serious danger of disappearing.

PLEASE Apple. Couldn't you just give us back the old "Share Playlist" option?

It was simple.

It was easy.

It was elegant.

It brought delight to your customers.