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Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

polariq — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:03:37 GMT

Plan

Free

Country Canada

Device

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

Everytime i try to login my spotify account, the firewall issue keeps on coming up. Ive tried to delete it, check if my country is still the same, tried a different account, tried a vpn, everything.

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

mrfirespark — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:57:03 GMT

Hey!

I had this same issue when I first joined Spotify.

There are a few ways to fix it. Mine was a little more complicated than some other ways. Heres how I fixed mine.

1) In the windows search bar type in Windows Defender Firewall

2) Once you click the first box it should bring you to a control panel page. On that page in the top left corner, click "Allow an App or Feature".

3) Make sure to click the "Change Settings" button at the top.

4) Scroll down to any and all items labeled Spotify and allow them both publicly and privately.

5) Restart your computer after saving the settings.

If that doesn't work, make sure you're on the latest version of Spotify and ALSO make sure your internet connection isn't blocking it if your home/school network has protections installed.

I hope I was of help.

-Colin

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

mrfirespark — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:57:49 GMT

(or try turning off your firewall completely. It's enabled by default) 😄

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

gspinney — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 17:24:16 GMT

The appropriate fix is the responibility of Spotify: do not communicate with my computer on blocked protocols and ports.

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

MasonMcNeill — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 03:54:11 GMT

Spotify is now showing up in my apps and I tried disabling my firewall that also didn't work I also have the problem that as soon as I sign in it says "something went wrong please reload" on the browser and the app. I tried signing in on a friends account that also did not do anything I got the same result. After trying many different things the form said on it I changed the dns and what not then restarted my pc and nothing seems to work idk what's up bc at one point it did work now it doesn't.

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

MihailY — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:58:59 GMT

Hey @MasonMcNeill,

Thanks for reaching out.

If the above suggestions haven't helped, we'd suggest disabling your antivirus software temporarily to check if this is the cause of the issue. If it works then, please check it's settings and make sure that Spotify is set as an exception.

Keep us posted.

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

mh_kohan — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:47:48 GMT

hi guys, after a long time and do several ways to fix the problem, i finally fixed it. 🙂
i do alot way like add spotify to firewall,remove hosts entry data,unistall and install agian app, change default app and browser and no one help me.
but now how i solve the problem:
when open spotify app on windows select proxy setting, by default my setting was auto detect and now work and i change it to http and only set the host and port
and restart spotify and then fix and work for me
i use v2ray vpn, because spotify block in my country and when use v2ray vpn it gives a host and port and i use it on my spotify proxy settings

that's it. i hope helpful for you guys

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

Jae123 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:16:40 GMT

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS FIXED IT I LOVE YOU FOREVER 💙

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

gdy23 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:40:37 GMT

Even after you allow the network settings, if it does not still work, just uninstall the app and install it from the Microsoft Store instead. This was my case.

Re: Spotify: A firewall may be blocking spotify. Please update your firewall to allow spotify.

random_guyy — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:30:12 GMT

u can actually change the proxy settings( which is present in the windows app of spotify... like when you try to login... just below it, there will be an option called settings, where we can change the settings...)to 'no proxy' if you dont want to share your hot, port, username, and password, etc... and it works... (like it worked for me...)