Apple Music Profiles: How to Find, Share, and Set One Up

Apple Music has a social side that a lot of people never touch. You can set up a profile, follow friends, and share playlists, all from inside the Music app. Here is how profiles work, how to find people, and how to share your own.

What an Apple Music profile is

Your profile is the public face of your account. It can show your name, your photo, the playlists you choose to make public, and, if you turn it on, what you are currently listening to. People who follow you see your shared playlists and your activity. People who do not follow you can still find your profile and see whatever you have made public.

Setting one up is quick. In the Music app, open the Listen Now or Home tab, tap your photo in the corner, and follow the prompt to create or edit your profile. From there you pick your name, add a photo, and decide which playlists show up. The exact labels move around a little between app versions, so if the wording differs on your device, look for the profile or account option near your photo and the steps will line up.

How to find someone on Apple Music

There are two reliable ways to track someone down.

By their shared link. The cleanest method is to get their profile link. An Apple Music profile URL looks like music.apple.com/profile/[name]. If a friend sends you that, open it in the Music app or a browser and you land right on their profile.

By searching in the app. Open Music, go to the Search tab, and use the option to find people. You can look up friends, and Apple can suggest contacts who are already on Apple Music. Note that not everyone has a public profile, so some people simply will not show up.

A common question is whether you can search Apple Music profiles without an account. Public profile pages can open in a browser through their direct link, but to search for people, follow anyone, or see shared activity, you need to be signed in to Apple Music. There is no full people-search that works without an account, so if you are hoping to browse strangers the way you might on an open social network, that option does not exist here. The link route stays the most reliable path to any single profile.

It is also worth knowing what happens behind the scenes here, which is nothing visible to the other person. Looking someone up does not alert them, and it does not follow them. For more on that, see does Apple Music show who viewed your profile.

How to share your own profile

To send someone your profile:

1. Open your profile in the Music app.
2. Tap the three-dot menu.
3. Choose Share Profile and copy the link or send it directly.

That link works for anyone. They can open it in a browser to see your public playlists, though they will need to sign in to follow you or see anything you have limited to followers. Sharing the link is the most dependable way to hand someone your profile, since it does not rely on them searching your exact name or having you saved in their contacts. It is also handy to drop into a message, a bio, or a post when you want people to find the playlists you actually want them to hear.

Controlling what shows up

You decide how public your profile is. In your profile settings you can:

• Choose which playlists appear on your profile.
• Turn listening activity on or off.
• Manage who is allowed to follow you.

If you would rather keep things quiet, hide your playlists and leave listening activity off, and your profile becomes close to invisible. A related detail people often want changed is the image at the top, which you can swap at any time. Our guide to your Apple Music profile picture walks through that.

One thing worth knowing: no one can see that you looked at their profile, and you cannot see who looked at yours.

See your own stats

Once you have found your profile, the public page only shows a slice of your account. To see your real listening data, your top artists, and your history, use our Apple Music stats tool. It connects through Apple's official read only sign in and shows only your own data.