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Apple Music Transfer Tool for Switching From Spotify Now Available in US and 8 Other Countries

Apple has quietly expanded availability of its music transfer tool to seven additional countries, allowing users to import playlists and libraries from competing streaming services directly into Apple Music.

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The feature initially launched in Australia and New Zealand in May 2025, and is now available in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States, according to an updated Apple Support document.

The transfer tool lets users migrate their saved music, albums, and playlists from services like Spotify through a partnership with SongShift. Users can initiate transfers through the Apple Music app on iPhone/iPad via the Music app settings menu (On iPhone, go to Settings ➝ Apps ➝ Music ➝ Transfer Music from Other Music Services).

If you don't see the above option, go to music.apple.com in your web browser, sign into your Apple Account, then click your profile picture in the top-right corner and select Transfer Music.

Apple Music attempts to match songs in its catalog, flagging items that need review when exact matches aren't found. Only user-created playlists can be transferred, not service-generated ones.

The expansion may indicate Apple is readying the tool for further international rollout in the coming months.

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Top Rated Comments

knappeduivel Avatar
12 months ago
Would be nice if an export to Spotify would also be enabled.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
UliBaer Avatar
12 months ago

Having your files sandboxed in a 3rd party app and treated differently than every other music file format by Apple is NOT an appropriate substitute - this has been discussed ad nauseum. Everytime someone mentions that Apple still deliberately blocks you from loading FLAC files into your device’s native music library, some wiseguy comes out of the woodwork and tells you to just use some app. Completely missing the point here!!
Sorry for trying to help you! ¯\_(シ)_/¯

I don't use any music or audio streaming services, i exclusively use my own video and audio files!
So that system politics by Apple (or any other entity) simply doesn't bother me... 😎
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
WarmWinterHat Avatar
12 months ago

Having your files sandboxed in a 3rd party app and treated differently than every other music file format by Apple is NOT an appropriate substitute - this has been discussed ad nauseum. Everytime someone mentions that Apple still deliberately blocks you from loading FLAC files into your device’s native music library, some wiseguy comes out of the woodwork and tells you to just use some app. Completely missing the point here!!
I agree with you, and it would be nice if they supported FLAC, but Apple never has. So, after 25 years, most have given up even talking about it.

It was a discussion and pain point back in the original iPod days. I remember converting FLAC to ALAC back in 2003-2004ish.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
UliBaer Avatar
12 months ago

All this but they still wont let you put FLAC files on a phone
Of course you can do that, you'll simply have to use another transfer/play app for that. Documents ('https://apps.apple.com/us/app/documents-file-manager-docs/id364901807') and VLC ('https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id650377962') work like a charm for transfer and playing of files - and movies of all kind also btw. ;)
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
12 months ago
Rights issues are a mess between services and between countries. If you move streamers or countries you will likely lose access to loads of albums from your library and songs from your playlists. This made me switch back to a locally-stored library and iPods, but also with iTunes Match to get *most* of my library accessible on HomePod and Apple Watch. It should “just work”, but…
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
stormchasejg Avatar
12 months ago

Interesting...

I had read this https://support.apple.com/en-us/118283 and thought that "cancelling" would mean losing the library.
Nope once you cancel you don’t lose your library only lose access to Apple Music content they all stay in the same places but you can’t play them without resubscribing, there has need a few periods when I’ve paused my subscription over the years and everything just comes back again when I pay.
It doesn’t cost them much to keep the database file for your library for when you return and it’s much better for customer’s satisfaction to leave it all intact.
I will admit that article definitely needs some further clarification as I definitely shared similar concerns before I did it.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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