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

[LiamTems]

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.

[technicly]

Just completed the switch to apple music i can finally shuffle

[crnblover]

@Ivelina (moderator),

PLEASE READ our comments here, we are not asking how to use the Smart Shuffle feature!

WE KNOW IT AND WE HATE IT!

This unwanted Smart Shuffle feature is causing significant frustration. It's not only incredibly buggy but also completely unhelpful. I'm forced to use it daily, and every single time, it takes multiple retries and delays to make it work—on both desktop and mobile versions.

The regular Shuffle feature is already unreliable, repeatedly playing the same few songs. But Smart Shuffle is even worse. Not once have I wanted to use this feature, yet it keeps re-enabling itself after I explicitly remove it. Despite seeing the message "Smart Shuffle recommendation removed," it somehow stays on. This forces me to constantly click, wait, and double-check every time I switch between normal and shuffle modes.

This is unacceptable. Please ensure this issue is fixed immediately or at least provide an option to disable Smart Shuffle entirely!

[rikverstraete]

and if spotify does not remove or disable smart shuffle option (wich i prefer) at least change the color of it ; on your mobile phone (with my bad eyes) it is almost not directly visible if smart is on or not : eg

smart shuffle : green color

normal shuffle : blue color (or other color for color blind people but not green 🙂 ) 

[rikverstraete]

status Updated on 2023-05-01

Hey! It looks like your suggestion is growing up fast and it's amazing! We are going to change its status to 'Good Suggestion' now

about time to impliment this : over a year you update this to good suggestion, more then 6000 votes ! so what will the next status update be? not right now 😞 or implimented) 

but i guess like someone posted in another related forum : "Smart shuffle probably has some advertising value to spotify. More than likely artists/producers using it to promote music" so i don't expect it to disable it. But have to decensy to tell peope that the option will remain. 

if they don't remove the smart shuffle at least change the color of the button : green for smart shuffle; any other color for normal shuffle ; the small star in the same color is almost nog visible and caused mistakes often already 

[jackdwilsonx]

Begging for a setting to toggle smart shuffle off. Half the time it lags, so you think you've disabled it, then random songs start playing, turn it off and now its ruined my queue 🙂 Please get it gone, I've literally never had the use for this anyway

[4lun]

Please let me turn this off, I have a driving playlist with specifically selected songs that don't tempt me into breaking the speed limit. Smart shuffle keeps coming on by default and throwing boy racer songs into the queue and I can't easily turn this off while driving

[kefkat1]

Please do something. This was already an annoying feature to begin with, but I feel like it's getting worse. It reactivates itself and when I just want to shuffle my playlist again, it's laggy because of this feature.

How can such an upvoted request and annoying feature be pending for so long? I created my playlists so that I don't have songs I don't like, and this damn mode is always activated by default and adds songs that I skip ALL THE **bleep**ING TIME to my playlist.

. This is a shitty UX decision, I don't even understand how a company like Spotify could have thought this was a good idea.

[whycantibeanonymous]

I haven't met a single person who doesn't hate the smart shuffle feature. If Spotify did some kind of survey the results would clearly indicate that it needs to go.

[Ocea]

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

[HanifCS]

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

Thank you