Smart shuffle is always on, and cannot be disabled

[OliviaTheFox]

Plan

Premium

Country

Norway

Device

Nokia X10 (native app)/Desktop computer (native app), still a problem in the webapp

Operating System

Android 13, Linux Mint 21.2

My Question or Issue

For some reason, whenever I disable shuffle, and do certain things, smart shuffle is re-enabled. Examples of this includes stuff like clicking playlist names (once), or on desktop, closing other windows. On mobile, closing popups or drawers within spotify also forcibly enables smart shuffle

If I manually turn on regular shuffle, it's automatically (visually) switched to smart shuffle at the end of the current song, or if any of the previously mentioned actions happen. Not that it matters, because regular shuffle _is_ smart shuffle now.

Even if shuffle is _completely off_, smart shuffle adds recommendations not in my playlist. This happens even if there's nearly 3000 songs behind it in the playlist, and there's plenty of non-recommendations in the queue.

I do not want smart shuffle, especially on my phone while I'm on cellular data with a limited data plan. Please fix the shuffle button