Create a modern-day mixtape

Share perfectly curated collections the easy way in the Music app

- Carrie Marshall

The days of carefully curating a cassette mixtape by recording songs off the radio may be long gone, but Apple Music has a much simpler, more straightforward and much better-sounding alternative: playlists! Playlists have been available in Apple's music apps since the iPod days and they're even better in the Apple Music era.

Whether you're creating a mix for your own amusement, to soundtrack an event, to download for a trip off-grid or to share with a friend or loved one, it's really easy to create, organise and share playlists of pristine digital delights, and to sync them across all your devices automatically via iCloud.

Share the tunes

As we'll discover, it's really easy to create a personal playlist, add songs to it and move them around - and it's also easy to create a Smart Playlist to automate your audio. That enables you to set whatever criteria you like and get Apple Music to find the songs - so if you want some late 90s rock but don’t want Oasis or Nickelback, or songs that go on too long, Apple Music can do that too.