According to Digital Trends, OpenAI has now added Apple Music to the lineup of apps available directly within ChatGPT. This integration, which launched for all ChatGPT users including those on the free tier, allows Apple Music subscribers to connect their accounts and use natural-language prompts to discover songs, create playlists, and get personalized recommendations. The feature works similarly to the existing Spotify integration, where you can ask ChatGPT to do things like “Create a playlist of the top indie songs from the 2000s on Apple Music.” It doesn’t stream music inside the chat, but instead builds the playlist in your connected Apple Music account. To use it, you select the Apple Music app in ChatGPT’s interface or start a prompt with “/Apple Music.”
The platform play is getting louder
Here’s the thing: this isn’t really about music. It’s about ChatGPT becoming the operating system for your digital life. OpenAI introduced these “apps” earlier this year, and they’ve been steadily adding big names like Peloton and Tripadvisor. Each new partner makes ChatGPT stickier. Why leave a conversation to open another app when the AI can just do the task for you? For Apple, it’s a smart defensive move. Spotify’s been in ChatGPT for a while, so Apple Music needed to be there too. It’s basically a new front in the streaming wars, fought on the battlefield of AI assistants.
Convenience, but with a catch
So, is this a game-changer? For playlist creation, absolutely. The friction of thinking of songs, searching for them, and adding them one by one is gone. Now it’s just a sentence. But look, there’s a big asterisk. You need an active Apple Music subscription. The free tier of ChatGPT gets you the app, but not the music. That’s where Spotify’s integration has a slight edge for casual users—you can use its basic features without a paid plan. This move feels aimed squarely at locking in existing Apple Music subscribers and making their experience so convenient they won’t consider leaving. Will it work? Probably for some.
What this signals for the future
This is a clear signal of where AI is headed: it’s becoming the universal interface. We’re moving from a world of icons and apps to one of conversations and commands. The heavy lifting of navigating software is shifting to the language model. Think about it. If ChatGPT can manage your music, book your travel, and plan your workouts, what’s next? It’s not hard to imagine it eventually controlling smart home devices or even enterprise software. For businesses, the lesson is that if you’re not thinking about how your service integrates with conversational AI, you might get left behind. The race to be a top “app” inside these AI platforms is just heating up.
