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How to Remove Duplicate Songs from an Apple Music Playlist

The same track can appear in your playlists for many reasons. Mistakenly adding the same track from a different album, or iCloud messing up sync and getting exact duplicates.

Here is how to find and remove duplicate tracks from your playlists.

Step 1

Download Song Sweeper

Get Song Sweeper from the App Store - it’s the fastest way to remove duplicate songs from an Apple Music playlist. Open the app and grant access to your music library to get started.

Song Sweeper app on iPhone
Step 2

Find Duplicate Songs in Your Playlists

Tap Duplicates in playlists to see every playlist that has duplicate songs. Select one playlist or several at once - Song Sweeper finds exact copies and the same song from different albums.

Playlists with duplicate songs, ready to select
Step 3

Review the Plan and Create a Clean Playlist

Song Sweeper shows exactly which songs it will drop before anything changes. Confirm the plan and it saves a new, deduplicated playlist to Apple Music while your original stays untouched. Rename the new playlist if you want, and delete the old one when you are ready.

Deduplication plan for a new playlist without the duplicate songs

A cleaner library is one tap away.

Download Song Sweeper and start cleaning up your Apple Music library today.
Requires an Apple Music subscription.