The Connect feature in Apple Music lets you follow your favorite artists and see what they’re up to, but if that’s something you don’t really use, here’s how to replace Apple Music Connect with a Playlists tab; this might be more useful though.
By default, when you add an artist to your music library, Apple Music automatically lets you follow that artist on Connect; this isn’t a big deal if you use Connect and plan to follow them anyway, but it’s an unnecessary feature if you don’t. Never plan to use Connect. Fortunately, you can turn this automatic feature off.
There are a lot of things in Apple Music that some users might not like or things that could use improvement; This isn’t too surprising considering Apple Music is still a very new piece of software from Apple, but it will evolve over time.
As for Apple Music Connect, you can’t really turn it off, but you can at least get rid of the Connect tab at the bottom and replace it with something a little more useful to you.
Here’s how to replace Apple Music Connect with the Playlists tab.
How to Get Rid of Apple Music Connect?
Surprisingly, disabling Apple Music Connect is theoretically really easy, as Apple has a built-in setting that you can enable natively.
Under the Apple Music app, you have five tabs: For You, New, Radio, Connect, and My Music, but on iOS you can get rid of the Connect tab without any special tricks.
To do this, you need to enable Restrictions in settings by going to the Settings app and then going to .
From there, tap on Enable Restrictions at the top and enter a passcode. You will need this password when you want to access Restrictions in the future. Also required if you want to disable Restrictions at any time. This passcode may be different from your iPhone’s master passcode.
After that, scroll down a bit and find it. Tap the toggle switch to its right. It will turn from green to gray which means it is now turned off.
From there, you can go back to the Apple Music app and the Connect tab will now be gone and replaced with a new Playlists tab that gives you faster access to your playlists.
This is especially useful if you rely heavily on playlists for your music rather than just the My Music section, and also get rid of the Connect section you’ll never use.
