Is ChatGPT Getting Apple Music Integration?

While a rumored Apple Intelligence feature of AI-generated playlists never materialized in Apple Music, it looks like OpenAI may be preparing to fill the gap. Over the past few months, the company has been extending ChatGPT to integrate with multiple apps and services, and today it announced several more integrations, with Apple Music briefly listed among them.

The tip-off came in a Substack post by Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, but she may have also jumped the gun. After 9to5Mac and several other sites reported on the news, the reference to Apple Music quietly disappeared from Simo’s post.

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Here’s the original text, as reported by 9to5Mac:

Here’s how the post reads now:

While it’s possible that Simo or her staffers made a mistake by including Apple Music, it seems unlikely that such a gaffe would slip through. Considering the close relationship between Apple and OpenAI — ChatGPT is currently the only third-party AI tool that integrates with Apple Intelligence — it’s more likely that the two companies have something in the works that hasn’t been cleared for release by Apple’s PR team yet.

Even in the original post, Simo only mentioned Apple Music in passing, so it’s unclear what the integration would mean. However, ChatGPT already connects to Spotify, which gives us a pretty big clue as to its intentions for Apple Music. The tentpole feature of that integration is AI-generated playlists, which is something that many Apple Music users have been hoping to see since even before Apple Intelligence debuted last year.

Considering that ChatGPT currently supplements Siri to handle more complex requests, more intelligent Apple Music integration here seems like an ideal way to fill in the gaps. Siri can be used to call up specific artists, albums, tracks, and playlists, and can even summon pre-made mood-based playlists, but that’s the extent of its abilities when it comes to Apple Music.

While Siri is still expected to get much better next year around the time iOS 26.4 arrives, we’re not there yet. For now, handing off to ChatGPT — especially if done intelligently — could allow users to make much more sophisticated requests that would actually produce useful results. It would also be one less thing Apple has to address in the new Siri, letting it focus instead on the personal context features it’s promised, which are things that OpenAI won’t be allowed to touch.

Still, we shouldn’t get our hopes too high until we see something more concrete, especially considering Simo’s quiet retraction of the Apple Music integration. If Apple Music comes to ChatGPT at all, it might happen in a more mundane way, such as letting ChatGPT merely link to Apple Music tracks when providing recommendations.

However, there’s also a flip side to this. OpenAI and Apple could approach this from the other end, placing ChatGPT’s capabilities inside Apple Music. That would align with the Image Playground ChatGPT integration Apple added in iOS 26 earlier this year, which allows more sophisticated styles than what Apple Intelligence can provide on its own. An AI playlist feature initiated from Apple Music that calls up ChatGPT on the back-end would be much more in keeping with Apple’s style — and it might explain why OpenAI isn’t ready to announce anything quite yet. Perhaps this is something that’s being cooked up for iOS 26.3? We can certainly hope so, but for now, it all remains highly speculative based on a single hint that might not be anything more than a gaffe.