App keeps switching to repeat

[Apollo2231]

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Pixel 6 Pro

Operating System

Android 14

Spotify version: 8.8.92.700

My Question or Issue

Everytime I open the app it switches playback to repeat/loop. It's not much of an issue if I hit play on a playlist. But I generally don't use playlists except at work. When I search a song and click it to play, its automatically on repeat. Since the "playlist" for one song is well... One song. That means it defaults to repeating the same song. I know the "solution" is to just uncheck the loop. But it's a hassle to open the player and change it every single time I start the app with a new session. And I'm usually not thinking about that. I'm thinking "I wanna listen to Torna a Casa and the rest of the songs the algorithm suggests like it."  And it makes it essentially impossible to start listening hands free.

Screenshots of behavior and settings.

[Apollo2231]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for posting in this thread! We appreciate your patience here while this is being looked into.

Just to confirm, does this happens when listening directly from the Spotify app on your phone or PC? Or does it only occur when listening in the car via Bluetooth?

And to help our teams with the investigation, we will need some more details. It would be great if you could send us the following (if you haven't already):

• The make, model and OS version of your device(s).
• Current Spotify version.

• Does this happen to every song or is it intermittent? Any patterns on when this happen? (i.e. when app starts for the first time).

• If possible, a short video showing how things look from your end (just make sure it doesn't include personal info). Should the files be too large to attach here in the Community, you can send them to us as unlisted YouTube videos or via Google Drive.

We'll keep an eye out for your replies!

[phette23]

This bug is infuriating and continues to happen. I have never set any playlist to repeat after it finishes. Every time my alarm triggers, the next time I use spotify whatever I play is set to repeat. I never want this behavior. I have tried deleting and recreating the alarm aftering checking that the playlist I've chosen (my liked songs) is not set to repeat. It does not make a difference. I have an Android device on the latest version of Android and of Spotify. Please fix this. It is one of two Spotify bugs that I have to deal with literally every day and so, so tiresome.

[nptraveller]

So it's March 2025 and the bug keeps going on and on and on... !  Is it really a bug?! 

[PaulMac]

This issue is happening on my Samsung S24FE. The problem seems to be getting worse rather than better. So annoying...

[TheHersh]

Like any company that starts off great. They get popular, wealthy and successful. There is however a points where they own the market. After this period they stopped caring about customer service this is the same reason that people hate Spotify for not having a true shuffle and they could easily fix the issue but don't because they don't care.

[Joseph333]

This just started happening to me!! Extremely frustrating. I am on Android Google Pixel 8 Pro, version 9.0.28.630 from the play store. Appreciate your help in resolving this! Is there a version we can revert to that works properly?

[Joseph333]

I SOLVED MY ISSUE! This seems minor enough that it's probably not the solution for everybody, but in case it helps some: my problem was that I had an alarm set to a Spotify playlist! This was (apparently, through my trial and error), turning my repeat on every time the alarm went off. It seems like a bug that Spotify automatically turns on repeat when playing an alarm through the android clock app, but you can fix it by using, for example, Youtube Music for your alarm (or hopefully spotify can fix the feature one day).

[selvagn]

Very interesting. I don't have alarms set to use Spotify though, so it does seem like a unique solution. 

[selvagn]

Good luck. It's been this way for over 2 years. 

[selvagn]

TWO. YEARS. 

[selvagn]

It happens all the time, in any situation, for over 2 years now, even when I've gotten a new phone and set it up from scratch. It happens with Bluetooth speakers. It happens with Google home speakers. It happens in the car. It happens at home. It's even happened when listening on my phone. This is starting to sound like Green Eggs and Ham. I do not like it, Sam. I do not like when playlists play again. 

[HowardCross]

As per title, repeat keeps turning on on my phone. Work phone is not affected but when my personal phone's Spotify turns on, it will then transfer to web player or work phone. Playlists (albums, playlists, discover weekly etc) will automatically turn on repeat immediately after I have deselected it. As such I am not graduating into song radio or recommended tracks 

Plan Premium

Country Ireland 

Device

Redmi Note 13 Pro+ 5G

Operating System

Android 15