

Apple Music can periodically check your contacts to recommend new friends in the future you can control this in Account Settings by disabling Contacts on Apple Music. Only shortened and encrypted hashes of the phone numbers and email addresses in your contacts are sent to Apple, and then matching Apple Music subscribers to be recommended are determined locally on your device. Apple does not learn or store information from your contacts when checking for friends to recommend.


When you create a profile on Apple Music, we will recommend other Apple Music subscribers with whom you may want to connect as friends. However, your profile information, such as handle, display name, photo, your followers and who you are following, are always visible to everyone. You can make the contents of your profile, like listening activity and playlists, available only to those you choose. Other people may also be able to find your Apple Music profile using the information you’ve provided. Sharing and posting content are not currently intended for or available to Apple IDs for children. Your user handle, display name and profile photo can appear alongside any content you post and activity you share on Apple Music. Apple stores this information with your account so you can access it from any of your devices. If you want to connect or share with other people using Apple Music, you can create a personal profile by providing a user handle (for example, display name, and if desired, a profile photo and other information. When you participate in a preview of our services, Apple collects information about how you use Apple Music and may use this information in order to tailor your experience. We also use this information so we can contact you by email and push notification about upcoming releases, new artists and other happenings on Apple Music that you may like. These features include Listen Now, where you see albums and playlists picked for you, and Radio, which plays selections from your favourite artists and genres. When you subscribe, Apple collects information about how you use Apple Music in order to tailor features to your musical tastes. This information includes your account and payment information, which you can access and change in Settings or System Preferences. We use your personal information to provide the services and features in Apple Music. Apple Music, like every Apple product and service, is designed with these principles in mind. We work hard to collect only the data we need to make your experience better, and when we do collect data, we believe it’s important for you to know what we’re collecting and why we need it, so you can make informed choices. Protecting the privacy and security of your information is a priority for everyone at Apple. The scores are stored for a fixed time on our servers. The submissions are designed so Apple cannot learn the real values on your device. To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a purchase.

We retain records of the songs you play for the periods specified by applicable laws relating to financial reporting.
