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[All Platforms] Explicit Filter

Add a button that controls whether Explicit songs are played or not.  When it is off and you're listening to an album or playlist, the explicit songs are skipped. That way you can still listen to your favorite album or playlist when more impressionable members of the family (kids / parents) are around.

Updated on 2018-12-06

Hey folks!

It's great to hear music as the artist intended it to be heard, this means Spotify can sometimes include explicit content.
 
We recommend looking out for the EXPLICIT tag on any releases (E on the web player).
Note: Our explicit content tags are applied based on information we receive from rights-holders. This means we can’t guarantee all explicit content is marked as such. 

It's also now possible to use the Explicit content filter on mobile and tablet devices (more devices coming soon!). Right now, the setting is only for the individual account and device. If you do apply the setting on your phone, it doesn't filter explicit content for the same account on the desktop app. It also doesn’t apply if you use Spotify Connect to play to another device. For more information on this, check out this support article.

We'll keep you up-to-date if there's anything else to share!

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avrep71

uggh. I should have looked into this before buying the family plan to include my daughter.  I will have to cancel and convince my husband to move to Google Music. This is absolutely ridiculous not to offer this basic feature.

avrep71

Ugghh. I wish I would have looked into this before buying the "family" plan.  Guess I will be canceling and convince my husband to go to Google Music. This is ridiculous that they don't offer this basic option. 

Frojoe2004
That would be fineeded and dandy if user controlled filters was censorship.
It is not. Equating an explicit content filter to censorship is like
equating any of their genre filters to censorship. After all, when you want
to listen to classical music, you are censoring all other forms of music. I
don't think Spotify understand's what censorship means. To eliminate
explicit content from their platform and not provide the option, that's
censorship. To allow an optional filter to the user at their request is no
more censorship than anything else their music algorithm does. My god, this
isn't hard to understand.
gmoneyt1

This is a MUST-HAVE feature!

Bluemanta

Hi All,

 

Spotify seems to ignore this thread or not responding at all. 

 

if you haven't already, please join us at Make Spotify Child-safe on facebook. Help us grow the page by posting your comments on the community Facebook page as well as like it and share it on your facebook.

 

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We want to reach as many people around the world as possible and put some real pressure on Spotify. Feel free to post your comments and let other concerned users like you know that are not alone

 

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Ammonzing

This is probably the biggest feature preventing me from a permanent switch from Pandora. 

GregE

Spotify offers a family account but it is not family friendly enough to include this feature. VERY DISAPPOINTING

Zoe-C100

I pay for a family account and just tried to add my 10 year old and hadn't realised that that the "Clean" iPhone music restrictions wouldn't work with Spotify. I've set him up with Apple Music and will have to transfer the whole family from Spotify to Apple Music if this is not resolved.  YOU'VE GOT 3 MONTHS to solve this issue Spotify.

bluejonny

This IS essential. With the family account you have used the word FAMILY. therefore this is not a request Spotify. This is a demand as a paying subscriber and this feature is long overdue. It does not affect users who do not want to use this facility but for parents it gives us choice. Do I need to start an online petition for you to start thinking sensibly?

sroose00
Sadly, Spotify cancelled 😞 Over to Apple Music

I really loved the Spotify experience but can not do family subscription if there is no explicit filter.