I want to disable podcasts for certain accounts.

[dentrassi]

Plan

Premium (Family)

Country

Germany

Device

Any

Operating System

Any

My Question or Issue

Pretty simple, I want to disable podcasts completely for certain accounts of the family plan. Podcasts are basically user created content with no "FSK", and not classification if their are suitable for children of a certain age.

The only alternative is to block children altogether from listening to the music they like, which is the MAIN use case for Spotify ... at least for us. Podcasts

[Maxim]

Hey @dentrassi,

Thanks for reaching out.

Keep in mind that young children under the age of 13 are not supposed to be using individual Spotify accounts. Instead, they should be using the Spotify Kids app, if available in your country 🙂 You can find more info about it at https://support.spotify.com/article/spotify-kids/.

Below are some ideas on the topic of podcasts which you might find interesting, so feel free to check them out and show your support, if you haven't already:

• Option to disable or hide podcasts entirely
• Add "remove video podcast content" option to Spotify Family

[dwr1]

The original poster mentioned they are using the Family Plan. Spotify Kids is not appropriate for teenagers. Spotify has dropped the ball bigtime on podcast content. 

[Mrmuscade]

Plan

Premium Family 

Country

Austria

My Question or Issue

I would like to exclude podcasts with inappropriate content from the device/profile of my children.

They are 9 and 10yo and some podcasts include shocking/scary content and videos. I have tried multiple times to exclude those from what they can access but the option doesn’t seem to exist, which seems an improvement much needed.

thanks in advance for your guidance 

[Uthegen]

Can only agree to 100%. 
My two kids are too old for Spotify Kids and I am super happy with them exploring music and audiobooks, for some time now.
But, with adding video and podcasts last year my son directly started to binge Minecraft podcasts. 
All tools at hand like time limits for apps etc. do not work as I would love to allow him hearing music and books more or less unrestricted, but with the podcasts and the music/audio books being the same app the Spotify app must provide the tools to sperate that.  
This issue is raised in various threads since month now, and there is no response and no action. 
Please simply provide us an option in family accounts to block video for some (or all) members of that account. 

...or at least say it is not done and what are the rationales behind .  

[Mrmuscade]

Thanks Uthegen, 

feels really lonely out there and I am sure in many families that goes unoticed - @Spotify is this something you can help parents with? 

[chbb]

We have this issue as well.  The kids audio app is for young kids not teens or pre-teens.  The podcast content is of what my son has found is 100% not suitable for him.

If there's no way to block this in a non-young kids app, then there will be no need for us to subscribe to the family subscription as we'll just cancel it for him

[AnijKittie]

My 13 year old is too old for Spotify kids and I don't want her on podcasts. She can't seem to stay off podcasts on her own so my option would be to block it. I don't have that option. PLEASE fix this! I pay for Spotify and free for myself and I don't need her going insane about not having music to listen to or constant ads or not being able to skip songs.

[Yordan · Accepted solution]

Hi folks,

We're excited to announce that we're currently testing such feature for young listeners in some regions - you'll find more info about it in this article. As soon as we have any news on the topic, rest assured we'll post an update there.

It goes without saying that your continuous feedback is immensely valuable and important, as it may ultimately end up paving the way for our broader user experience. Thanks for sharing it here - we appreciate it.

The Community is just a post away if something else comes up in the meantime.

Take care 💚

[Mrmuscade]

Thanks Yordan for your answer here. While we appreciate there is solution developed, it's far from what we would need before we can click "accept as Solution" : it's limited to the Nordics Market and doesn't resolve anything about  inappropriate content and moving images. Please simply provide us an option in family accounts to block video for some (or all) members of that account.. Thank you. 

[Uthegen]

That sounds at least like a step in the right direction. Oh wait, I am not from the Nordics, or is Germany any of those 11 not named countries ?
You provide a pilot which is ok, but after nearly a year of that madness you do not even give a timeline for the rest of the world. Serious ? What a genius PR action.

I could not describe how upset I am if thinking on all the heated discussion at our family table and this video topic brought lies to our home.