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TikTok is expanding its music-sharing options, allowing Apple Music and Spotify subscribers to send songs, podcasts, and audiobooks to TikTok.
Content can be posted to TikTok feeds using the green screen feature or Photo Mode. It can also be sent via TikTok direct messages, which recipients can tap to open in the music-streaming service it came from. To use it, tap the share button on a song, playlist, album, or podcast and pick TikTok. On the next page, choose how and where you want to post the link.
The feature builds on the "Add to Music app" feature TikTok rolled out last year, which lets people add songs from TikTok to Amazon Music, Apple Music, or Spotify libraries with one tap.
A similar option recently rolled out on Instagram, though you can only share to Spotify right now. There, you tap the "Add" button when you find a Reel or post with a song you like. Once you link your accounts, all songs will automatically be saved to your Spotify Liked Songs playlist.
A few months ago, Meta also rolled out the MySpace-esque option to add music to your Instagram profiles. Thankfully, they do not autoplay.
"We know our listeners crave a seamless listening experience across all of their devices, platforms, and apps, and our ambition is to be accessible everywhere our listeners are," Spotify says. TikTok also argues the integrations will drive "further discovery and engagement on those streaming services."
These integrations come as TikTok is fighting bans in multiple countries. This week, Canada ordered the platform to shut down its offices in the country over national security reasons. And it's facing a US ban in January unless it divests its Chinese ownership, though we'll have to see how that shakes out when Donald Trump returns to the White House.