topic Re: Option to view public playlists has been removed in Desktop (Mac)

Option to view public playlists has been removed

simonpaulbenton — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:39:26 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

Macbook Pro M1

Operating System

Tahoe 26.1

My Question or Issue

As of today I am no longer able to view the option to see my public playlists on my profile. It used to be below 'Top tracks this month'.

Now it is only:

Top artists, Top tracks, Recently played artists, Followers, Following

I use this feature daily, it is extremely strange to remove the option to view it. What is going on at Spotify, so many genuinely stupid UI decisions happening on a seemingly daily basis?!

Please return this option ASAP, I'm seriously considering the move to Apple Music.

PS I am still waiting for the fix on the unnecessary and now permanent Your Episodes playlist. Sort it out...

Re: Option to view public playlists has been removed

Amay — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:39:16 GMT

Hey @simonpaulbenton, welcome to the Spotify Community! 🎵

You can click the gear icon before the 3 dots (below your profile picture) to open the respective social settings. There you can turn the option back on. Below is a screenshot of the same section and as you can see there is a new option: People can see the playlists you've added to your profile.

Please toggle it on.

Let me know how that goes. 🙂

Re: Option to view public playlists has been removed

simonpaulbenton — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:49 GMT

Thanks Amay, that worked.

Fairly annoying that it was toggled off by default when I restarted the app yesterday.