Play & manage your music from YouTube Music with Gemini Apps

When you connect your YouTube Music account, you can ask Gemini Apps to perform actions with YouTube Music, like:

Show, find, or play music, like a song, album, artist, playlist, or radio.
Create a playlist or radio based on mood, activity, artist, and more. For example, create a playlist to energize me for my run.

Important:

The YouTube Music extension isn’t available in Gemini in Google Messages.
For now, the YouTube Music extension works with prompts in some languages only.
Extensions are only available when Gemini Apps Activity is on.
Some features aren’t available for all countries.
Extensions work the same way for both spoken and typed prompts. On Android mobile devices, if "Hey Google" doesn’t work, check if “Hey Google” and Voice Match are set up.

Connect YouTube Music to Gemini Apps

Make sure you’re signed in to the same account you use with YouTube Music.
Ask the Gemini app to find or play from YouTube Music, like play music to help me focus.
- Tip: If the Gemini app doesn’t use the YouTube Music extension, you can include @YouTubeMusic in your prompt.
If YouTube Music isn’t connected, you’ll get the option to connect it.
Follow the on-screen instructions.

Tip: You can also turn YouTube Music on or off in your Extensions settings.

You can ask Gemini Apps to show, find, or play music from YouTube Music. For example:

You can also use these prompts:

Important: For now, you can create a radio or playlist with English prompts only.

With Youtube Music, you can set up a radio for a continuous stream of songs based on your preferences or a playlist for a fixed set of tracks.

You can ask Gemini Apps to create a YouTube Music radio or playlist.

To create a radio, try these examples:

To create a playlist, try these examples:

Tip: To save the playlist or radio to your library, select Save to library.

When you use the YouTube Music extension, your YouTube Music watch history is stored based on your settings. You can view and manage your YouTube Music watch history. Learn how to manage your watch history.

Gemini Apps only use extensions that are on in your Extensions settings. This includes extensions you turn on when you specify them in your prompt with an "@" mention.
Gemini Apps check for extensions that can help it generate a more helpful response. If a Gemini app finds an extension that can help, it automatically sends information from your conversation and other relevant information to that extension. For example, Gemini Apps will send your location data to Google Maps if you ask for coffee shops near you and the Google Maps extension is on.
Gemini Apps won’t access your personal content in other services without your permission. Some Gemini Extensions are designed to automatically work with tools, apps, and content on your device to help you seamlessly interact with it.
If you directly interact with another Google service in Gemini Apps, your activity might be saved by that other service. For example, if you watch a YouTube video in a Gemini app, YouTube may:
- Collect your personal information.
- Store and use that information according to YouTube’s terms of service.
- Store your watch history in your YouTube History. Learn how to manage your YouTube watch history.
Gemini Apps can use extensions to help you connect with third-party apps and services. When they do, Gemini Apps share information with those apps and services to fulfill your requests. That information is then used by those third-party apps and services according to their own developers' privacy policies.