topic Re: Spotify won’t let me turn off shuffle and it says I have to get premium in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

Spotify won’t let me turn off shuffle and it says I have to get premium

Skibidi122 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:18:32 GMT

When I click shuffle it says I need shuffle when a few days it go it would turn off

Re: Spotify won’t let me turn off shuffle and it says I have to get premium

rianon — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:11:10 GMT

I have the same problem. I get the "want to play songs in any order?" pop up saying I need premium. I don't want shuffle automatically selected and apparently, I need to pay to turn that off.

Re: Spotify won’t let me turn off shuffle and it says I have to get premium

Yordan — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:41:04 GMT

Hi folks,

Welcome to the Spotify Community!

Sounds like you had access to Premium features on the mobile app for a limited duration. In general, full on-demand playback is not supported on the mobile app for free users, meaning most music will be available in Shuffle-mode only.

Still, there are up to 15 Pick-and-play playlists found in the Made for You section under Search, which allow you to listen without Shuffle and also give you the option to sort and filter (i.e. search within the playlist). Sort and filter can be accessed by swiping down at the top of the playlist.

Check out the screenshots below for a detailed view:

"Special" Spotify playlist
"Regular" user-made playlist

More info on the differences between free and Premium can be found here.

Hope this clears things up. The Community is always here if there's anything else we can assist with.

Cheers 🤘

Re: when i play my playlist it plays random songs

aehahhhf — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:11:56 GMT

I tried this and I think I fixed things, but the only thing that comes up when I click on the shuffle icon on my phone is "Want to play songs in order?" and then a "explore premium" button. (I don't have premium)

Bring back the ability to choose the order of songs

Ultamon — Wed, 28 May 2025 10:49:21 GMT

So I stopped using the app 2022-23, and when I came back I couldn't choose the order of any songs anywhere and I couldn't unshuffle my playlists. I am just asking if yall can stop being money hungry, and just give free people their features back.

Re: Spotify won’t let me turn off shuffle and it says I have to get premium

The_bi_kid_named — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:45:22 GMT

Why are you guys not letting me use my Spotify account I am so disappointed in your company I use it just fine and then to say I can what is the f*** is rong with you F your company

Re: Spotify won’t let me turn off shuffle and it says I have to get premium

du2badwe43r — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:22:14 GMT

guess this is the perfect advertisement by the company to go to the competitors instead