I need to back up my playlist in apple music

Just returned to Apple Music after stopping using it for almost a year.

Now all the playlists in the library are gone.

Use the same Apple ID, Sync Library is turned on.

Would you like to check if there is old playlist data in the restored system?

Posted on Dec 1, 2025 5:16 AM

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Dec 1, 2025 6:46 AM in response to ailada256

This is a user to user forum, you are not addressing Apple Support here. As such, we cannot check anything for you here.
No, Apple does not store old playlist data. If you cancel the subscription, any playlist, songs and albums added to your library from the subscription service are lost and would need to be manually recreated.

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