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Apple Music offers a plethora of features, including a collection of over 100 million songs, Spatial Audio, curated playlists, live radio, easy handoff between several Apple devices, lossless music, and more. One of our favorite features of Apple Music is that it offers excellent actions for the Shortcuts app allowing you to perform automated tasks such as playing a playlist or album with a single tap. Here is how you can use a shortcut to play Apple Music Playlists with a single tap on your iPhone.
Play Apple Music playlists with a single tap
If you are unaware of the Shortcuts app, it’s a native automation tool that lets you automate tasks on your iPhone. It also lets you combine multiple actions across apps to get things done easily and efficiently. For example, you can use the Shortcuts app to create an app launcher, open multiple apps in slide-over mode on iPad, delete Safari browsing history and data, and more.
You can find a list of our favorite and the best shortcuts for iPhone in our linked guide. For now, let’s see how you can create a shortcut to play a playlist in Apple Music with a single tap.
1. Launch the Shortcuts app and click the plus (+) button in the top-right to start a new shortcut.
