The ♡ Heart button is being replaced with a (+) Plus button

[MattSuda]

In March 2023, the ♡ Heart button will start being replaced with a (+) Plus button for saving things to Your Library. Things that have been saved to Your Library will now show a green ✔ Check icon instead of a green Heart icon.

This new experience is now rolling out to the mobile and desktop apps first and will then come to the other apps (watch, TV, etc.) at a later time.

You can check out this Spotify news article for more information:

Save Your Favorite Songs, Podcasts, and More With Spotify’s Plus Button

In this post, we will show you how to use the new experience and answer your questions. You might have already seen this change being discussed in the Community recently.

New Experience:

                                   

Old Experience:

                      

How does the (+) Plus button work?

• The experience will remain similar for you. When you tap the (+) Plus button from the Now Playing View, songs will be saved to your Liked Songs. The only difference is that now you can quickly tap the (+) Plus button again to add the song to your other playlists too! When you tap the button again, you'll also see the other playlists that the song has already been added to with a green ✔ Check icon.

• The experience is the same for Podcast Episodes. You can tap the (+) Plus button to save podcast episodes to Your Episodes, and then tap the button again to add the podcast episode to your other playlists too.

• Once you tap on the (+) Plus button, the icon will change to a green ✔ Check to let you know that the track has been saved.
  
  
• The green ✔ Check icon also shows up next to the songs that are saved to Your Library on Album and Playlist pages. (but not when viewing your own playlists, only other playlists)
  
  When you see a green ✔ Check icon on a song, it means that it has been saved to Your Library. A song added to either (or both) Liked Songs or one of your own playlists counts as being saved to Your Library. Before with the heart button, the green heart icon meant that the song was saved only to your Liked Songs.
  
  If a song has a green ✔ Check icon because is has already been added to one of your playlists, you can still add it to your Liked Songs playlist. Tap on the green ✔ Check icon and select your Liked Songs playlist from the menu and it will be added.

• The (+) Plus button will also still let you save Playlists, Albums, and Audiobooks to Your Library.

• This change will not affect the things you have already saved to Your Library. The songs you've previously saved will remain in Liked Songs. The Playlists, Albums, Podcasts, and Audiobooks you've previously saved will remain in Your Library.

• The "Add to playlist" icon in the options menu will also become a (+) Plus, but the functionality remains the same.

FAQ:

This section will answer your frequently asked questions and will be updated with the latest answers.

Why are the 💚 green heart icons next to songs I've already liked missing? I used to be able to see the songs I've previously liked when viewing songs on Album and Playlist pages.

• The green 💚 Heart icon has been replaced with a green ✔ Check icon
  
  
• The green ✔ Check icon shows up next to the songs that are saved to Your Library on Album and Playlist pages. (but not when viewing your own playlists, only other playlists)
  
  
• When you see a green ✔ Check icon on a song, it means that it has been saved to Your Library. A song added to either (or both) Liked Songs or one of your own playlists counts as being saved to Your Library. Before with the heart button, the green heart icon meant that the song was saved only to your Liked Songs.
  
  
• If you don't yet see the green ✔ Check icon next to songs in track listings (Album and Playlist pages), you should see this once it rolls out to more users.

I want to add a song to a playlist from the Now Playing View, but I don't want to save it to my Liked Songs. Why do I have to save the song to Liked Songs first?

• The (+) Plus button will let you edit the destination of the song you liked. After you have tapped the button from the Now Playing View, you can tap it again to change or add it to more playlists.

• Alternatively, you can still add a song to playlists without saving it to Liked Songs. Go to the options menu by first tapping the "..." icon and then tap on "Add to Playlist" to select the playlist(s) you want to add the song to.

How do I remove a song from Liked Songs or my other playlists now?

How do I remove a podcast episode from Your Episodes or my other playlists now?

• Songs: This same function can now be done by tapping the green ✔ Check button on the Now Playing View or by going to the options menu and tapping on "Add to playlist". After tapping the button or the option in the options menu, uncheck the "Liked Songs" playlist and then tap on the green "Done" button at the bottom. You can also use this menu to remove the song from your other playlists.

• Podcast Episodes: This same function can now be done by tapping the green ✔ Check button on the Now Playing View, on Podcast pages, or by going to the options menu and tapping on "Add to playlist". After tapping the button or the option in the options menu, uncheck the "Your Episodes" playlist and then tap on the green "Done" button at the bottom. You can also use this menu to remove the podcast episode from your other playlists.

What happened to the "Like all songs" menu option on Album pages in the mobile app?

• This same function can now be done by tapping the "Add to playlist" menu option on an album page and then selecting the "Liked Songs" playlist.

What happened to the "Swipe left to Like" gesture to quickly like and unlike songs in the mobile app?

• When you use the "Swipe left to Like" gesture on songs in playlists or in album pages, the song will still be saved to Liked Songs. However, now when you swipe again, the "Add to playlist" menu will open up so you can now quickly add to or remove from Liked Songs and your other playlists all in one step.

Why can I no longer add a song to a playlist more than once using the "Add to playlist" menu in the mobile app? There used to be a popup telling me if a song was already added to a playlist and there was an option to ignore that and add it again.

• Right now the ability to add a song to a playlist more than once using the "Add to playlist" menu in the mobile app is currently not possible. As a workaround you can still add songs to a playlist more than once using the desktop app. In the desktop app, you can drag the song into the playlist, or use the "Add to playlist" option in the right click menu.

Feedback:

Where can I give my feedback about the new (+) Plus button?

• We welcome your feedback about this change. The best way to share your feedback is to comment here in this thread.

[annbill10]

I HATE the plus button! I don’t want to ‘like’ every song I put into an album. So I have to ‘like’ it, then add to the playlists I want, then ‘unlike’ it. Just have one button for adding to a playlist and a love heart to add it to liked songs (…exactly how it was before!!).

[badhybrix]

Is UNBELIEVABLE the DISGUSTING WAY you don’t listen your community, you don’t read the comments and you DO NOTHING about it. Is just DISGUSTING even when we monthly pay you millions for you to be rich and you don’t care at all anyway 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

[lavenderphoenix07]

I miss the heart, if it’s possible I think it’d be great to have a setting to choose between the heart and the plus.

[Aellington89]

Sometimes a song that I’ve added to a custom playlist, but not my Liked Songs, does not have the green checkmark. Most of the time a green checkmark appears next to the song once added to a playlist, but some songs it still shows the plus sign even after the song has been added to a playlist. Happens on iPad.IMG_0022.PNGIMG_0021.PNG

[PurpleFan]

i just wonder when the **bleep** Spotify will understand and will finally return this!?

[TD86]

Interesting, I now have the heart buttons back in the Android app...for whatever reason.

[evcm]

Spotify team; you suck. Plain and simple, you guys suck. Your community has mourned for this feature back for months, and you guys have refused to make any statement or change. Why ask for our feedback if you aren't going to listen? We pay you monthly

[badhybrix]

Today is August 19, 2023. Look the new releases date were yesterday. I mean somehow I recovered BEST OLD TiMES for this today**bleep** application. It means somehow Spotify can give back to us what we’re asking MONTHS AGO. It’s so obvious you just care bout ur **bleep**ing money and **bleep** US 🤬🤬🤬 YOU SUCKS SPOTIFY 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮

 

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[Isadriendir]

I commented back in March against this decision, and I’m glad you ended up getting back to the heart icon… on Android.

The UI rollback on iOS is still pending, but I’m grateful because you listened the feedback.

[user-removed]

Back again after months of this feature. This truly was a downgrade. My music library and playlists have became so unorganized. Songs I have listened to and enjoyed ive missed out on because i thought i liked it but hadnt. Had there been a heart indicator i would still have those songs. Very disappointing. I expected you all to take in the feedback and put action behind it…

[greytoolbox]

The UI change is unnecessary and counter helpful to users. Due to this, if one were to add an entire album as a playlist to sieve their favourites, they would need to individually re-add the songs to Liked Songs instead of using the heart button.

What's the worst of all this is that Spotify has decided to engage in such a huge change to the fundamental app experience beyond checking with their users, who have paid money monthly, if they actually would find this UI change useful. 

If the UI team is so bored they could have always expanded the app to include features like how stats for spotify and other 3rd party apps like last-fm show us our listening stats, information about songs etc. But NOOOOOOOO.... you had to screw up what was already working.

If you want to change how the heart button looks, sure. 

Dont take away how the existing system works for people already.

Liked songs is a way for people to sieve out for their playlists. Playlists are a way for people to sieve out Liked Songs. Etc. 

Have the decency to let people know which songs in a playlist are already liked.

Shame on you UI team.

[mojodrone]

There’s a simple solution to make everyone happy. Place a plus (+) sign next to every song. While browsing playlists etc you can select/press the plus (+) to add the song either to liked songs, or any playlist of your choice. The plus (+) then turns to a green tick, to signify the song is now in a list. 

If you only want to add to liked songs then use the legacy action and swipe left to add direct to ‘liked songs’ and again the plus (+) will turn to a green tick.

Now, when you search Spotify - a tick next to a song signifies the track is either in a playlist, or liked songs. If you want to see which, just select/press the tick.

The heart was always a bit cheesy. But, by removing a way of identifying songs that you’ve already liked when browsing lists - well, Spotify wins gold prize for the most daft functionality update.

[Samppa3]

Nah, Spotify better leave the heart symbol as it was always perfect and not at all cheesy.

Currently I have heart and also my apps have hearts so, all is fine. Don't do any changes, especially unnecessary changes for the sake of change as it's totally pointless.

[BabyEcho0_YT]

WOW this whole thing is still going on why not just drop this whole thing and forget about it and deal with it and this is the most popular email in my inbox. 

[Douglasmrques]

Almost September and they keep ignoring us

[PurpleFan]

so sucks company 

[Bellbell]

The heart is simply a direct expression of the emotions you have when you’re listening to a song while the “+” is just a cold mechanical action and your brain won’t process any emotions when you tap it..

It raises the serotonin level in my body when I tap that heart button and I’m pretty sure thousands of millions users are feeling the same way I feel. 

So please, don’t copy Apple, please bring back the heart, music is for expressing and the heart expresses well.

And it helps reduce people’s stress level.

[Edwin71]

Some benefits of the new behavior (with the plus button) when wanting to add a song to a playlist

• you could see which playlist(s) already had the song
• you could add a song to multiple playlists at once

Why not just look at the way YouTube manages playlists, that is so much more mature.

See, I've waited for months for that new plus-button, I've had it for a few weeks in July and now it is gone again.

Spotify is really putting our patience to the test.

[Emma1232]

This change is awful and I hate it, the like button is an integral part of the way I use spotify, I listen to discover weekly, I put those songs into a 'new music' playlist, then after I've heard the song a few times and I've really decided I enjoy it more than average, super like it you could say, I click the heart, and it adds it to my top top song playlist (liked songs) and then within all my playlists at a glance I can see which songs are my favourite and specifically play them over some of the less banger filler songs on there, it is the way I use the app.

Honestly if you take this away from me permanently I will leave to another app. There are plenty of better choices if this is how you are going to treat your customer base. Seriously not okay, and seeing the amount of negative feedback you've ignored just leaves a bad taste in my mouth about giving you so so SO much of my money over the many years I've subscribed to this service. Absolutely abysmal treatment of your userbase, bring it back, extremely quickly, or I, and countless others, are gone!!

[Viper_21]

I just wish I could again see songs that I've "liked" when viewing albums and artists!! The heart icon is missing from those views. Please bring it back as soon as possible!