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Becky Scarrott

Apple Music now has collaborative playlists, but it's still stuck behind Spotify

Apple Music collaborative playlists on an iPhone screen, on red background.

On Monday January 22, Apple released iOS 17.3 and, along with notable software updates such as Stolen Device Protection, the update adds two big features to Apple Music: collaborative playlists for Apple Music subscribers and SharePlay with CarPlay. 

The former lets you team up with other paid-up Apple Music users to create shared playlists where anyone can contribute songs or simply react to your friends' choices with emojis. The latter automatically issues anyone who jumps in your car and connects to CarPlay or Bluetooth an invitation to join in the road-trip music curation from their device – even if they don't subscribe to Apple Music. 

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