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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
zpoigjdaf

Thank you. This is absolutely the worst feature in Spotify history.

 

Now please implement the ability to disable it in Windows desktop app.

 

Also, please just make all future ideas optional. The create playlist was another awful idea and it took forever to remove it. 

Kenzie404

Nobody likes smart shuffle. 

 

There's nothing smart about it. All it does is play songs you don't like and repeats songs you've already heard over and over again, if I wanted to do that I'd just put them on repeat. Please just get rid of it.

770

Not implemented into Windows desktop? Huh?? Why?

Jendon

While I appreciate the ability to disable this feature on mobile, I will again reiterate that this needs to be implemented on the desktop application. I know there are probably stats somewhere that tells you (Spotify corporate) that the overwhelming majority of your users are listening on mobile, but it's assuredly not 100%. Are you comfortable alienating a portion of your user base simply because they don't belong to the majority? I know you're probably trying to funnel everybody to use the mobile app like every other God-forsaken capitalist, but this omission is so bizarrely egregious.

 

I just hope we're not on the cusp of Spotify engineers believing artificial intelligence is the future and handing over development of their software to ai. If that happens, we're going to see some extinction-level updates that really kill this thing for real.

shinobisensei

Whenwill this come to desktop?

sjefen5

Still an issue...

MattSuda

Hey folks,

 

If you'd like to see a setting to disable Smart Shuffle in the desktop app, please give this idea a vote:

 

➜ [Desktop] Turn off Smart Shuffle in settings menu

MattSuda

@shinobisensei @Jendon @770 @zpoigjdaf 

 

Hey folks,

 

If you'd like to see a setting to disable Smart Shuffle in the desktop app, please give this idea a vote:

 

➜ [Desktop] Turn off Smart Shuffle in settings menu

MattSuda

@xXCallMeBamXx @coun @letters_underscore @onlytocomplain @Nordica @iwua @as_if_qwerty 

 

Hey folks,

 

If you'd like to see a setting to disable Smart Shuffle in the desktop app, please give this idea a vote:

 

➜ [Desktop] Turn off Smart Shuffle in settings menu

as_if_qwerty

Matt, dude, stop posting the same broken link, you are a parrot