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[Mobile] [Other] Smart Shuffle toggle setting in settings menu

Smart shuffle is a fun way to discover new songs, but it comes at a cost. Want to reshuffle your queue? Bam, wait a few seconds longer. Want to unshuffle your playlist? Bam, no longer works, and goes to a completely random place in the playlist.

 

To me this is an unwanted complication, and I'd much rather be able to choose in the settings menu whether I want to enable the Smart Shuffle feature, or disable it.

Updated on 2025-04-29

Hey folks,

 

We're excited to announce that you can now toggle whether Smart Shuffle is available on your mobile apps!

  1. Tap your profile picture at the top.
  2. Tap Settings and privacy.
  3. Select Playback.
  4. Switch Enable all play modes off and you're good to go!

Cheers & many thanks for your input 🙂 Stay tuned for new updates 🙌🏼

Comments
Ocea

Please include an option to disable this! PLEASE!!!! 

HanifCS

Please add a setting to permanently turn off the smart shuffle.

Thank you

thyagofurtado

Kill Smart Shuffle with fire, dismantle its body, bury it at the core of the Earth in the magma, never ever bring it up again.

thyagofurtado

Remove the smart shuffle feature from the app

Deadicated

Hate it it pops on everytime I open spotify why am I paying for basically  ads I don't want to hear

TwoPlusLuc

I cannot understand why this has not been fixed yet. It is as simple as a toggle switch in the settings. This should seriously not take more than a day for a developer, and will hugely improve the user experience. Give me the freedom to turn off functions that make my listening experience worse.

lightsandsea

The reason I don't like it is, I can't be distracted while listening to a playlist while working. I want it on shuffle, but if smart shuffle creeps in/on (which it seems to do for some shady reason), and I hear a song I like, the distraction has me go back to Spotify to see if I've had it in my playlist already or if I have to add it. This is more of an issue than it sounds!

o-caneo

The forced SmartShuffle on users for every playlist is the worst idea ever conceived in human history.

m1n3_43v3r

Bumping this. The toggle never stays and it interrupts my work flow which for someone on the spectrum is extremely jarring. This was posted over a year ago and the issue has only gotten worse for me.

kaine42

Please give us the option of turning this off.

Smart shuffle is the most annoying things I've seen in an app.