Apple has been pushing Apple Intelligence integration in apps like Messages, Photos, Mail, and third-party apps, with more to come in the upcoming iOS 26 update. Yet one app that could greatly benefit from Apple Intelligence—and be helpful to many people—remains untouched.
The app in question is the Music app, to which Apple has yet to add any Apple Intelligence features to enhance the user experience. Here’s how Apple could incorporate its intelligence models into the app, and why doing so would be beneficial.
Why Apple Intelligence Should Come to Apple Music
This could work in two ways: you could select how you’re feeling when creating a playlist, or you could tell Siri what you want and have it create one for you based on that.
If you’d rather select how you’re feeling, Apple could implement a text box to input what you’re looking for—similar to the one used when creating a memory movie in the Photos app. Another option would be prompt-based selections, likelogging your mental well-beingin the Health app or tapping on emotion bubbles, similar to how Apple Music asks you to choose your favorite music, artists, and genres when you first start using the service.
While manually inputting or selecting the mood and vibe you want a playlist to have is straightforward, a quicker way would be to use Siri. Instead of typing or tapping what you want the playlist to be like, you would just describe it to Siri, and have the assistant curate a playlist from that.
On the other hand, if you’d rather have music suggested without inputting anything, Apple Intelligence could tap into the Health app and use your most recent mood log to recommend music that aligns with how you’re feeling. Based on that information, it would recommend various songs, artists, playlists, or albums to listen to.
For example, if you’re feeling sad, Apple Intelligence may recommend listening to a happier playlist to get in a better mood, or some sadder songs to further explore your emotions.
Apple has alsoaddedImage Playgroundto multiple apps, such as Messages and Invites. Since you can already add your own cover photo to a playlist, Apple should incorporate Image Playground into the Music app as well, allowing you to create images directly within it.
This would eliminate the need to leave the app and open another to design a cover image. Just like in the Invites app, where you can generate an image within the interface, Music could offer the same seamless experience.
Apple Intelligence in the Music app could expand what you can do within the app and help you explore more of its offerings. Through playlist creation, music suggestions, and playlist cover creation with Image Playground, Apple Intelligence has room to make a meaningful impact within the application.
Rooting Apple Intelligence Into Apple Music
We’ve all been there: wanting to create a specific playlist while needing to look up and then add each song individually. It’s time-consuming and may feel like an eternity when you’re done.Apple Music alternatives like Marvis Procan make this process feel a bit more seamless, but there could be an even better way.
As mentioned, playlist creation would work great with Apple Intelligence. You could input the type of playlist you’re looking for based on ideas, emotions, or vibes—plus how many songs you want it to be and the order you want them in—and then a curated playlist would be displayed.
For example, you could tell Siri, “I’m feeling sad. Make me a playlist of 15 songs that starts sad and gets more hopeful the further down the playlist you go.”
On the other hand, you could also say, “Create me a 20-song playlist of feeling-good music from pop songs only from 2013.” Both inputs would then present you with a playlist tailored to your request.
Yet this wouldn’t be the end of the process. Like with Image Playground, where you may see a preview of the image and make modifications based on your thoughts, the same thing could happen with the playlist.
This means that when your device presents you with the curated playlist it made, you could look at and preview the songs within it and then give feedback to modify it if needed. This would allow you to maintain control over the playlist being created while still building on your initial request.
Additionally, Apple Musicalready creates playlists for youto discover new music based on your listening habits. Apple Intelligence could expand on that, and these intelligently curated playlists would present you with songs you wouldn’t have thought of adding.
You could also tell your device that you want songs you haven’t listened to before, prompting it to use your listening history to suggest tracks you’ve rarely or never played.
Adding Apple Intelligence to the Music app would greatly expand the app and service capabilities by helping you discover new music and tailor playlists to match your current emotions or vibes. As it already does in other apps, it would personalize its suggestions and respond appropriately to the information you provide or that it accesses on-device.
Ways to Incorporate AI Into Your Music Experience Now
Unfortunately, Apple Intelligence in the Music app is currently wishful thinking, and Apple has not announced these features. However, there are still ways to make them come true; it just takes different directions to reach your final destination.
Suggested Songs in Apple Music
Apple currently offers suggested songs at the bottom of your playlists. If you scroll all the way down, you’ll see a box with five songs titled “Suggested Songs.”
In that box, you can preview the suggested songs, add them directly to the playlists, or—if you don’t like any of them—have five new songs suggested by tapping the redo button in the box’s upper right.
This is done by the app analyzing the songs already in your playlist and suggesting songs that fit the theme or style of the playlist, such as genre, tempo, mood, or artists. The more songs you add to or remove from the playlist, the more this box adapts to the changes and suggests songs that fit its newest version.
Using a Different AI Bot
If you want artificial intelligence to help you create and discover new music, you must turn to another AI bot to curate a playlist. This could be with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot.
Whichever AI bot you decide to use, you can simply ask it for a playlist based on your emotions or what you’re looking for, and it will give you a list of songs based on that request. Unfortunately, depending on the bot you use, it may not be able to link to Apple Music, so you will have to search for each song individually and add it yourself.
For example, when asking ChatGPT, it was unable to link directly to Apple Music for each song. Google Gemini, on the other hand, was able to provide links, although I was routed to a Google Search webpage where the link to the song could then be clicked.
While this is not ideal, it is a way to achieve an AI-created playlist based on your feelings. Additionally, just like with other requests asked of AI bots, you can fine-tune the output it gives you with additional comments.
Apple is continually improving and adding new features to Apple Intelligence, and while the service is less than a year old, itstill has room to grow.
Adding Apple Music to the list of apps that support Apple Intelligence would be a smart move for the company. By combining its large language models and machine learning with its subscription service, Apple would offer a new user experience.
With Apple Music being over ten years old, it’s time to bring it into the company’s artificial intelligence era to make music discovery and playlist creation easier, faster, and more personalized.
