This Shortcut Makes a Kid-Friendly Version of Your Explicit Apple Music Playlists
If you have a great Apple Music playlist for holiday parties, but it includes a few tracks that are not suitable for ears of all ages, you no longer have to worry about making your mixes suitable for the whole family. Forget painstakingly recreating it yourself using “clean” versions of explicit songs – there’s a Siri shortcut for that.
This is not the kind of functionality that Apple has built into its streaming service, although it probably should. Instead, it comes from Reddit user AdTrue6877 . Their Siri Shortcut scans all songs in any Apple Music playlist and creates a new playlist that replaces all explicit songs with their clean versions. It’s the fastest way to create playlists for the whole family in Apple Music.
To get started, download the Make Clean Playlist shortcut and run it on your phone. The shortcut will automatically show you a popup that will allow you to scroll and select any of your Apple Music playlists. From there, the shortcut will ask you to name the new playlist and start creating a clean version. This will take a little time, so be patient.
However, you don’t have to constantly look at the progress bar in the Shortcuts app – open Apple Music and you’ll see a new playlist. The songs will appear on it one by one as the shortcut completes its task. When it’s done, the shortcut will let you know if it couldn’t find clean versions of some songs. Songs that are still too cheeky will be automatically removed from the new playlist.
The shortcut isn’t perfect, so it’s worth checking it out later. For example, Green Day has a single “Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams” that combines both of these songs. Clean versions of both songs are available individually, but not in combination. In this case, you will have to add these tracks back yourself.
Using the shortcut, it took me just under five minutes to convert a playlist containing 70 songs using the iPhone XS Max. Your results may vary if you have a different device and a larger or smaller playlist.
Oh, and if you want to go the other way and turn your clean radio playlist into a frank one, try the Create Dirty Playlist shortcut. This is the same Reddit user and works the same logic with opposite results.