In a move that should be welcomed by parents and guardians of young children, Spotify has announced a new feature that lets you keep kids' and family music played on the service out of your taste profile.
Starting today, Spotify is rolling out a new toggle in the app's settings that prevents kids' music from affecting your personalized recommendations. This includes, for example, songs you play on repeat from your kids' favorite animated movies, theme songs from family TV shows, nursery rhymes, and more.
When you turn the new setting off, you can still search for, listen to, and build playlists of kids and family music, but those streams won't affect what Spotify suggests for you.
In other words, things like Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, and Wrapped will more accurately reflect your taste. Not only that, the setting applies retroactively, so kids music you've already listened to won't count toward your Wrapped top song or artist, for example.
The following steps show you how to turn it off in the Spotify app on iOS and Android:
- Navigate to Settings and privacy by tapping your profile picture in the top-left corner.
- Select Content and display.
- Switch off the toggle next to Include kids and family music in taste profile.
Spotify says it may take up to 48 hours for these changes to be reflected in your personalized recommendations.
