ChatGPT Works With Apple Music Now, for Some Reason
When ChatGPT first launched, it was all about processing text. You can ask it to write you a poem, check your code for errors, or build you a shopping list from a recipe. Three years later, the app has completely changed, for better or worse. Not only has ChatGPT’s Large Language Model (LLM) improved significantly from GPT-3.5 to GPT-5.2, but the bot has become multimodal. It can understand text, but also images, videos and the Internet in general. The ChatGPT of 2025 is hardly the same product as that of 2022.
One of the many upgrades to ChatGPT over the past three years was app integration: you were able to connect OpenAI’s chatbot to ask it to do things on your behalf. You can log into Expedia to ask ChatGPT to help you book a hotel, Zillow to ask the bot to help you find an apartment, or Canva to help you create a slide. Whether these integrations are more useful than just using the respective app itself may be up to each user, but these integrations exist nonetheless.
Fidji Simo, CEO of OpenAI Applications, announced the integration in a post on Substack on Tuesday. Among other updates, like a new image generation model and new writing tools, Simo revealed new app integrations for the chatbot, including OpenTable, Salesforce, Clay, Lovable, and, of course, Apple Music. At the time, details were limited, but now the integration is officially up and running.
What can you do with Apple Music in ChatGPT?
First of all, you don’t actually need to subscribe to connect Apple Music to ChatGPT. This is an interesting note, because Apple Music itself requires a paid subscription to access it. But with ChatGPT you can access elements of the services without paying – keyword “elements”.
Once you connect the services together, you will be able to search Apple Music for songs, artists, albums, and playlists in ChatGPT. In addition to music discovery, you can also generate playlists and listen to samples of songs you find. ChatGPT doesn’t specify how long these clips are, but based on iTunes it can be anywhere from 30 to 90 seconds. If you thought this integration was just about listening to Apple Music songs while using ChatGPT, think again: you’ll still need Apple Music itself for listening.
Of course, if you have an Apple Music account, the integration is a bit more useful. If so, you will be able to add songs, albums, and playlists to your Apple Music library that you found or generated from ChatGPT.
What are the privacy implications of connecting Apple Music to ChatGPT?
Love it or hate it, ChatGPT isn’t necessarily designed with user privacy in mind. After all, part of the company’s business model is to train its LLMs on your ChatGPT interactions, unless you specifically object. As such, the idea of connecting your Apple Music subscription to ChatGPT raises a few privacy alarm bells in my mind. Apple Music does not contain the most sensitive user information in your digital wallet, but it does contain a certain amount of additional data that ChatGPT may collect from you.
What do you think of it so far?
At the top of Apple’s music connection tool, OpenAI says, “You’re in control.” The company insists that ChatGPT “always respects” your training data preferences and is bound by the permissions you have already set. That said, the company also warns that by using apps you run the risk of falling victim to an attack: if hackers decide to attack ChatGPT, your data could be hacked. You’ll also end up sharing data points like your IP address and approximate location, as well as ChatGPT data with Apple Music. (Data sharing goes both ways here.)
One advantage here is that ChatGPT does not appear to have access to your listening history. While the app can create playlists for you, it can’t actually see what you choose to listen to in Apple Music itself.
I personally don’t use ChatGPT, and even if I did, I don’t think I’d connect my Apple Music account here. I find that the discovery capability within the app itself suits my needs perfectly, and when that’s not the case, the wider internet already helps me find new music. I’m not sure I feel the benefits of ChatGPT’s intelligence here, especially when it comes to the risk of keeping all my Apple Music data in another location.
If you’re not like me and want to try this integration, you can connect Apple Music to ChatGPT from the latter’s app or web app. Head to the sidebar, choose Applicationsthen find and select “Apple Music”.
