How to follow people on Apple Music

Apple Music allows you to follow your friends to find out what they're listening to, and it makes it easy to share all your favorite playlists, too. This guide shows you how to set up an Apple Music profile and walks you through the process of adding friends.

Before you begin adding friends to Apple Music, you'll need to create an Apple Music profile. It only takes a few minutes, and you can do it from either your Mac, or from a device like an iPhone, iPad, or even an iPod touch.

How to set up an Apple Music profile on your Mac

Open the Music app
Click For You
In the upper-right corner of the app, click your photo
Click Get Started
Create a username
Click Done

How to set up an Apple Music profile on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Open the Music app
Tap For You
In the upper-right corner of the app, tap your photo
Tap See What Friends Are Listening To
Create a username
Tap Done

Once you set up your profile, you can start adding friends and sharing playlists with them. You can do this on your Mac or your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

How to follow people on Apple Music on your Mac

Open the Music app
Click For You
In the upper-right corner of the app, click your photo
Click Find More Friends

How to follow people on Apple Music on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Open the Music app
Tap For You
In the upper-right corner of the app, click your photo
Click Follow Friends

Once you are in Follow Friends or Find More Friends you can search for contacts by Apple ID or username, as well as link your Facebook account.