See what your friends are listening to
When you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you can see music your friends are listening to by following them. You can also see the playlists they’ve shared and the music they listen to most often. Likewise, your followers can see your shared playlists and the music you often listen to. You see most of this information on your profile screen in the Music app 
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Create a profile
When you first open Music, you’re asked to set up a profile and start following friends. If you skipped that step, you can set up a profile at any time later.
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Tap For You, then tap
. Tap Start Sharing with Friends.
Friends can now follow you.
View your profile
Tap For You, then tap
or your profile picture.Tap View Profile at the top of the screen.
Follow your friends
There are several ways to follow people:
Add friends when you set up your profile.
After you set up your profile, swipe to the bottom of the profile screen, tap Follow More Friends, then tap Follow next to those you want to follow.
You can follow friends who are in your contacts list and who use Apple Music, and Facebook friends who have linked their social media accounts to Apple Music.
On the profile screen, touch and hold a profile picture, then tap Follow.
Tap Search, enter a friend’s name, tap it in the results, then tap Follow.
Note: Your friends must have a profile for you to find them using search.
To see the people you’re following and those who follow you, open the profile screen, then swipe up.
Some profiles may appear with a lock on the profile picture, which means that you need to ask for and receive permission from that person to become a follower. After your request is accepted, you see their shared playlists and the music they’re listening to.
Respond to follow requests
You can allow everyone to follow you, or just people you choose. You receive follow requests only if you choose who can follow you.
Tap For You, then tap
or your profile picture.Tap View Profile.
Tap Edit, then tap People You Approve if you want to be followed only by people you choose.
Tap Follow Requests, then accept or decline the requests.
You may receive follow requests in other ways—as a link in an email or a text message, for example. To accept, tap the link.
Stop following and block followers
Stop following: Touch and hold the profile picture of a person you follow, then tap Unfollow.
Block followers: Touch and hold a profile picture, then choose Block.
People you block won’t see your music or be able to find your profile. They can still listen to your shared playlists if they added them to their library.
Share music with followers
By default, your followers see the playlists you create, but you can specify some playlists not to be shared.
Tap For You, then tap
or your profile picture.Tap View Profile.
Tap Edit, then turn playlists on or off.
Drag
to reorder them.
Your followers will see the playlists you create on your profile unless you turn off those playlists you don’t want to share. You can turn off this option when you create a playlist or later, when you edit the playlist.
To share playlists with people who don’t follow you, touch and hold a playlist, then tap Share Playlist.
Note: If you make changes to music you share—edit or stop sharing a playlist, for example—those changes are reflected on your followers’ devices.
Hide your guilty pleasures
Because no one is proud of all the music they listen to, you can hide playlists and albums from your followers.
Tap For You, then tap
or your profile picture.Tap View Profile.
Touch and hold the playlist or album (below Listening To).
Tap Hide from Profile.
The listening history for this item doesn’t appear in your profile and isn’t visible to the people who follow you. If you don’t want your followers to see any of the music you listen to, tap Edit on the profile screen, then turn off Listening To.
See what others are listening to
See what your friends are listening to: Tap For You, then scroll down to Friends Are Listening To. Tap an item to play it.
Listen to a mix of songs your friends are listening to: Tap For You, swipe left on the mixes at the top of the screen, then tap Friends Mix.
See what a follower or person you follow is listening to: Tap For You, tap
or your profile picture, then tap View Profile. Tap a person’s profile picture to see shared playlists and music they frequently listen to. You also see their followers and the people they follow.
Share your profile
You can share your profile using email, Messages, or another app you choose.
Tap For You, then tap
or your profile picture.Tap View Profile.
Tap
, tap Share, then choose a sharing option.
You can also share the profile of anyone you follow, or who follows you.
Report a concern
If you have a concern about a follower, touch and hold their profile picture, then tap Report a Concern.