The ability to disable the Jam function.

[Lejos]

Ok so Jam function seems incredibly odd to begin with, but I suppose in a rare instance where you want to listen to love songs with someone who's far away at the exact same time, or you're running a silent Disco, there might be a use for it for a very small number of people. 

But there should be an option to disable it in your settings. Let's start with the hypothetical scenario that I don't want to run into: A crazy ex or a stalker trying to send me their sad playlist everyday. Also, and possibly more frustrating, is the automatic prompt that comes of when you and another person listening to Spotify are on the same Wi-Fi. Why am I being sent an unprompted question without an invitation from another user in my home or business if I would like to join and listen to exactly what they're listening to at the same time. If I happen to want that, would I not just play the music aloud? We obviously already started listening to what we want to listen to on our own devices by ourselves, so why would I suddenly want to listen to exactly what they want to listen to?  Automatically searching for users on the same Wi-Fi seems crazy intrusive to me what if we're on a public Wi-Fi at a mall? How many prompts would you'd be receiving to join? Anyway I don't mind if this crazy feature (that I'm willing to bet a Year's membership that under 5% of users use monthly) stays on the app,  I just want the ability to turn it off so it doesn't bother me while I'm listening to music by myself.

[Covancide]

I'm laughing at the amount of people complaining about this when this jam feature has been around for ages and it could always be disabled. How could someone randomly join to your jam? Why do you even start a jam in the first place, if not to share music with someone? You can also disable local wifi or bluetooth visibility from the app. There's not much science guys.

[mturnerphotodotcom]

The fact that you need to comment that you’re laughing about this tells me all I need to know about the value of your opinion…
The problem lies in the jam feature not being able to be permanently turned off - it re-activates on its own and needs to be turned off again every time you connect to your bluetooth speaker or receiver. The audio playback gets interrupted like the track is skipping if there are any bluetooth devices (ie; other phones) in the vicinity. Turning off the wifi/bt visibility does nothing to fix this either.
It would be a very easy feature to change, so that the jam feature defaults to “off” rather than “on” and would save the hassle of having to turn it off for the 99% of the time you’re not trying to share the bt connection to your speakers or headphones.

[Covancide]

I have manually attempted to do this using another phone and it's not letting me join, or even detects the device at all, either bt or wifi network. But generally I have all those settings turned off, and it still lets me pair the devices already saved on my phone when using speakers. Maybe you should check your phone/bt settings?

Yes, it's true jams lag at some point and they have to be restarted, which is annoying. Also your activity won't show in your "recently played" when in a session. Clearly they never cared to fix any of that, but I doubt this problem has to do with Spotify specifically...

[Dextrose]

I agree, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF PRIVACY GIVE US THE ABILITY TO NOT BE ADDED TO JAMS WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPLICIT CONSENT

[sololistener]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iPhone 15 max pro

Operating System

iOs 18.5

My Question or Issue

Is it possible to disable the Auto-invite people nearby to a Jam? I work from home, and my roommates get notified every time I start listening to Spotify in my office. It's annoying, distracting, intrusive, and there seems to be no way to disable this feature permanently. Every time I open the app I need to track down the button to disable it, but if I forget everyone gets notified of what I'm listening to. I've enabled private listening, but the Auto-Invite to a Jam feature still turns on automatically all the time and I'm about to lose my mind.

I'm thinking of cancelling my subscription to get rid of this feature because of the problems its causing for my living situation. What is the solution here besides leaving Spotify behind?

[Darnallt]

Ridiculously trash feature. I really don't want to listen to whatever strangers around me are listening to at the gym—I shouldn't be prompted—and I really don't want strangers to have the option of learning what I'm listening to.

None of this should be enabled by default. If these sessions exist at all, it should be on an invite basis.

[playfplay133464738]

Spotify with it’s useless updates. Thinking about switching to Apple Music.

- The new ‘+’ button in the bottom menu as 4th button: very annoying and useless,

- Jam function: a nightmare, I DON’T WANT IT?! At least give a option to disable it,

- Make some improvements like automatically mixing music instead of ‘overflow’,

- and the list goes on…

[rickmcd85]

I just recently found that whenever I connect to one of my bluetooth devices there was a setting called "Auto-Invite nearby people to Jam" that was on by default. I have no interest in any social component of the Spotify app. I was a little dismayed recently to find my playlists were public by default, but at least I could turn that setting off and switch them to private. 

However, although in an individual listening session you can turn off this "Jam" feature when you connect to a device, it seems to turn back on by itself when I next connect to the same device. 

Personally, I can not imagine a scenario where I would ever want this feature to be on. I think Spotify should give the user some more control over their preferences here. The idea I'd suggest is simply having a setting in your privacy settings that you can flip on or off. It would just give some users the option to disable this feature by default. I find that defaulting anything to public/sharing is a negative trend, but it is not a big deal as long as the user can opt out. I think this would be a very convenient feature to add and not a big lift to implement. 

Thanks for considering. 

[ScienceofSpock]

You need to add the ability to DISABLE THIS IMMEDIATELY. I do not PAY FOR spotify to have RANDOS who happen to be on the same network as me SCREW UP MY MUSIC. *I* should be the ONLY one to decide IF and WHEN I "start a jam" and if not, you can kiss my family plan goodbye. I will NOT support this kind of FORCED BEHAVIOR. DO NOT implement "features" that NOBODY WANTS, and CAN'T BE TURNED OFF. FORCING **bleep** like this on consumers with no way to "opt out" is ANTI-CONSUMER authoritarian BS.

[QsTonka2]

Get rid of jam!!! I'm a bus driver on the north shore, I always listen to Spotify while driving, I do pick up teenagers, that respect nothing, and they will "join" my jam and play inappropriate music, like women pleasering themselves very vocally, but I can't stop to play with my phone and disconnect that user, as I connected to the speakers on the bus, this gets me in trouble, for a fonction that doesn't allow me to block undesired users, so do something before the one thing I love about my job is the ability to listen to music all day. I have add to block 4 different user on one day. Since my girlfriend also listens to my list I can just make it private either.. Please advise