Spotify tips that will remove many of your irritations

Constant notifications, moving images and more: Spotify secretly has quite a few features that are annoying. With these Spotify tips you can remove the biggest irritations!

Spotify tips that will remove many of your irritations

You mainly use Spotify to enjoy your favorite music. You don’t want all those notifications about new concerts and constant whining about recommended music. Right? We thought so too. That’s why we’ll show you how to turn things off in these Spotify tips!

These tips were written using the Spotify app on an iPhone. The steps may be slightly different on an Android device.

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1. Turn off notifications and alerts

Spotify sends you regular messages by default. For example, you can receive notifications about new music or podcasts. There are even regular offers from Spotify itself. However, you can indicate which notifications you want to receive and whether you want to see them in the app or receive them by email.

Spotify tips that will remove many of your irritations

To turn these notifications off (or turn them all on if you like), click the ‘Home’ button. Then tap your profile photo and choose ‘Settings and privacy’. Go to ‘Notifications’ where you can enable or disable all types of messages.

An even easier way to immediately turn off all messages from the app is via the Settings of your iPhone. You do this in the following way.

Turn off all messages and notifications from an app (e.g. Spotify).

  1. Go to ‘Settings’ on your iPhone;

  2. Scroll down and tap ‘Apps’;

  3. Find ‘Spotify’ in the list and tap it;

  4. Tap ‘Notifications’;

  5. Set the slider next to ‘Allow notifications’ to off.

2. Stop moving pictures and animations

For some songs, Spotify plays short, repeating images on the screen during playback. That can be quite annoying, but you can also disable this function quite easily.

  • Tap ‘Home’ and your profile photo;
  • Go to ‘Settings and privacy’;
  • Choose ‘Content and display’;
  • Turn off the slider at ‘Canvas’.

3. Get rid of it: Turn off Smart Shuffle

You can shuffle a playlist, an album or your own lists. This mixes up the music and you don’t always hear the songs in the same order.

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Smart Shuffle is now on

The Smart Shuffle option is a specific variant of this. This also adds new songs that ‘similar’ to your taste. If you don’t want that, you should turn the function off. You do this in the following way.

When you’re playing music, first tap the play bar at the bottom so that your play button appears large on the screen. Then tap the icon with the two arrows on the left.

  • Are the arrows gray? Then the shuffle function is turned off;
  • Are the arrows green? Then the standard shuffle function is on;
  • Do you see a small star next to the green arrows? Then the Smart Shuffle function is turned on.
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4. Protect profile with your music taste

Sometimes you want to let friends or family listen to music via your account. But Spotify uses almost all the music you listen to to create a profile. That profile is then used for recommendations.

Are your parents huge fans of Heintje or is your girlfriend crazy about a South Korean boy band? And so not at all? Then you would rather not have that kind of music included in your profile when they start listening to it. Fortunately, you can turn that off.

Open the playlist they want to listen to with your Spotify account. Then tap the button with the three dots in the middle of the screen. Then choose ‘Do not use for your music taste profile’.

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