What Is “Discoverable by Nearby Contacts” and How Do I Turn It Off?

But if you dont have CarPlay, you might turn it off.

Turning off Discoverable by Nearby Contacts negatively affectsplaylist collaborationand shared listening.

The iPhone’s Settings app with the Discoverable by Nearby Contacts option disabled for the Music app.

When creating your Apple Music profile, you may have cherry-picked some playlists to share with your followers.

Open your profile in the Music app on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac and hit Edit.

Now uncheck any playlists below Shared Playlists that you dont want followers to see and click Done.

you’re able to only share the playlists youve manually created.

Apple Music playlists and smart playlists cannot be shared with others.

On an iPhone or iPad, open your profile in the Music app and hit Edit.

I completely forgot about it, so its been dormant.

Songs and more in your listening history are used for recommendations.

They also appear in the Recently Played list and affect what ends up onyour Apple Music Replay.