Does Spotify use data even if playlists are available offline?

[pguarino91]

I was curious as to if Spotify still uses data when a playlist is made "Available Offline" on the device. I use an iPhone 5, and I was under the impression that if a playlist was synced/offline it wouldn't use data or stream. However my data usage has still been increasing exponentially. Just curious, thanks in advance!

[Taylor]

Hi, and welcome to the community!

It shouldn't use any data. However, just to make sure, you can got to Settings>Playback and enable offline mode.

Anthony 🙂

[user-removed]

even if the playlists are offline available spotify use very much data (50 MB a day). but when you enable offlinemode no scrobbling to last.fm is possible, so that do not help. thats a bug

[iDrizzt]

I have Spotify turned off for access to cellular data, Settings>Cellular, scroll down and click to toggle on/off. So I'm pretty sure it isn't using data when I'm in "Offline" mode.

[LeviT]

It will still use a ton! I have a huge playlist that has been downloaded for months and every time I let it play at work all day long it uses several GB a day. Its frustrating because the official answer is to manually block and unblock spotify from using cellular data each time you want it to. 

[Z3URP13T]

Similar to this thread:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-iPad/Playlists-Offline-does-it-use-4G-Data/td-p/829079

I have all playlists offline and in a time frame of 2 weeks listening to my playlists in the car for a max of 2 hours per day and less, Spotify has been using over 3GB of mobile data and this is just listening to offline playlists.

[caren_arlante]

How about on my computer, how should I set it to offline mode?