Spotify Lets You Keep Kids' Music Out of Your Wrapped and Recommendations
A new Spotify setting stops kids and family music from shaping your recommendations and Wrapped.
Spotify Separates Kids' Music From Your Taste Profile
Spotify is giving parents and other shared-account listeners a way to keep kids and family music from changing their personal recommendations. The new setting lets you exclude that listening from your taste profile, so repeated streams of nursery rhymes, family TV themes, and songs from children's movies do not become signals for what Spotify should recommend next.
The change also affects Wrapped. Spotify says the setting works retroactively, meaning kids and family music you already listened to will no longer count toward things such as your Wrapped top song or top artist once the setting is turned off.
What Happens When You Turn It Off
Turning off the setting does not block kids and family music. You can still search for it, listen to it, and add it to playlists. The difference is that those streams are excluded from the signals Spotify uses for personalized recommendations and listening insights.
That means the setting can cover common situations where one account is used for different kinds of listening, such as playing children's music during a family road trip or at bedtime.
Spotify's update follows other controls for managing taste signals. The service already lets users exclude individual tracks or playlists, while managed accounts give younger listeners their own music experience.
How to Exclude Kids and Family Music
- Open Spotify on your phone and tap your profile picture in the top-left corner.
- Tap Settings and privacy.
- Select Content and display.
- Turn off Include kids and family music in taste profile.
Spotify says the new setting is rolling out globally on mobile to both Free and Premium users. It is enabled by default, so users need to switch it off if they do not want kids and family listening to influence their profile. Spotify also says it can take up to 48 hours for the change to appear in personalized recommendations.
Spotify's Recent Playlist Changes
The new taste-profile control arrives as Spotify continues adding more ways to personalize listening. The service recently expanded Spotify Playlist Notes from songs to podcasts and audiobooks, letting users add context directly inside playlists.
Spotify also introduced User Notes for playlist songs, giving listeners a way to attach short personal captions to tracks. For fitness-focused listening, Spotify Running Mode added running presets, BPM controls, and audio cues on iOS.
What Happens Next
The main change is that family listening can now be separated from the account's personal taste profile without requiring a separate playlist or account. Spotify says the setting is available globally on mobile, while managed accounts remain a separate option for younger listeners.
Source: Spotify Newsroom
