Will Apple Music Get AI Playlists in iOS 27?

Source: MacRumors

Wednesday, February 11 2026 · 4:42 PM PST
by Juli Clover

AI features are expanding to all kinds of apps, and it’s getting difficult to find a service that hasn’t embraced AI. Lately, AI‑generated playlists in music apps have been growing in popularity, and it’s plausible that we’ll see Apple adopt the trend in the near future.

YouTube

This week, YouTube Music started rolling out a new AI playlist feature. YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscribers can turn an idea, mood, or genre into a personalized playlist.

There’s an option in the Library section of the YouTube Music app to create an AI playlist. You can type or speak any genre, artist, feeling, phrase, or other suggestion to receive a custom playlist.

Spotify

In January, Spotify launched an expanded test of a Prompted Playlist feature that uses AI to generate music suggestions from a text‑based request.

Read the announcement →

How it works

• Premium users type a description of what they want to hear.
• The AI analyzes the user’s listening history, current trends, and chart data to craft a playlist that matches the request.
• Playlists stay fresh—they can be set to refresh daily or weekly as listening patterns evolve.

Example prompts

• “Music from my top artists from the last five years, and deep cuts I haven’t heard yet.”
• “High‑energy pop and hip‑hop for a 30‑minute 5K run that keeps a steady pace, then easing into relaxing songs for a cool‑down.”

Key points

• Playlists can be tweaked with additional prompt edits.
• This feature expands on Spotify’s earlier mood‑ and activity‑based playlist generator, allowing far more specific and detailed requests.

Amazon Music

Since 2024, Amazon’s music service has offered Maestro, a feature that lets users build playlists using text‑based prompts and emoji characters. It works similarly to the AI playlist tools on YouTube and Spotify, with Amazon describing it as a way for users to create “any playlist they can think of.”

Apple Music Rumors

Apple has used AI to generate custom “For You” playlists for Apple Music users for years, but there isn’t an option to type in a prompt and get a customized playlist in response.

Last year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple was working on an Apple Music reboot focused around AI. We did get a new AutoMix feature that more seamlessly transitions between songs, as well as updated lyrics‑translation tools, but there’s still no option to generate AI playlists and no specific Apple Intelligence features.

More of Apple’s apps are expected to adopt Apple Intelligence features in iOS 27, so it’s possible we’ll see new AI‑driven Apple Music capabilities then. At present, Apple is one of the only major streaming services that does not offer prompt‑based AI playlist creation.

In the meantime, you can generate Apple Music playlists using ChatGPT. ChatGPT can integrate with Apple Music, search its catalog, and create playlists based on user prompts. However, it doesn’t have access to your listening history, which limits personalization, and any playlists it creates must be added to Apple Music manually.

A native AI playlist feature in Apple Music would bring the service more in line with what Spotify and YouTube already offer.

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