How to Automatically Remove Curse Words From Apple Music Playlists
Most times, songs that contain curse words also have a clean version available, which is a better choice to listen to depending on where you are—like public places or in a car with children.
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How to Create a Non-Explicit Version of Any Apple Music Playlist
Apple Music has no built-in feature for creating a clean version of your playlists. Instead, we’ll need to run a Shortcut on your iPhone. The Make Clean Playlist shortcut, which Reddit user AdTrue6877 shared on theShortcuts subreddit, checks all songs in an existing Apple Music playlist and finds their clean versions, which are then added to a new playlist.
Follow these steps to get started:
The shortcut may take a while to run, depending on the number of songs in your playlist. For an easier experience in the future, you can utilizedifferent ways to run any shortcut quicker.
Once done, you’ll find the new playlist on the Apple Music app. If the shortcut can’t find any clean versions of certain songs, it will display them in a pop-up, and these songs will not be added to the new playlist. If you see the pop-up, tapDoneorCancelto dismiss.
And since we’re utilizing a shortcut, you may’t get this functionality to work on Android. Luckily, unlike Apple Music, you canfilter explicit content on Spotifyvia a built-in feature and across platforms.
How to Filter Curse Words Across Apple Music
An alternative to using the Make Clean Playlist shortcut is to enable content restriction on your device. If you do so, Apple Music will remove swear words from all songs you play by cutting them out or adding a bleep. Apple Music will also censor lyrics, so you won’t tell what was there.
The process is very similar to how you canput parental controls on an iPhone or iPad. If you want to start filtering out curse words, all you need to do is follow these steps:
And that’s it. As you could see, other apps and content like podcasts will also be affected when you use this feature. If that’s not exactly what you’re looking for, you can remove the restriction anytime by following the same steps and selectingExplicitin the final step.
Easily Remove Curse Words From Your Apple Music Playlists
With the Make Clean Playlist shortcut, you could easily create clean versions of your favorite Apple Music playlists in a cinch. The only catch is that clean versions of songs are not always available.
A more permanent solution that doesn’t involve recreating an existing playlist is using Apple’s content restriction feature, which automatically removes profanity across Apple Music.
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