Solved!! How can I remove the “playing recommended songs for you” feature
I don’t want to listen to music that’s not in my playlist
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Do i have to get premium to do it?And i have the latest version which is 8.8.44.527 but i still cant see the option
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Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device iPhone 13 Operating System iOS 17.4.1 My Question or Issue hello💆🏼♂️ i've found multiple times on the 8.9.34 and earlier versions of spotify th...
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Plan: premiumVersion: 8.9.44.362Devices: IPhone 12iOS: 17.5.1Hello everyone,I have been troubled by an issue with my Spotify for a long time.The lyrics always shrink when the song switch or replay, it cannot stay in lyrics mode continuously. It shoul...
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Plan: premium Version: 8.9.44.362 Devices: IPhone 12 iOS: 17.5.1 Hello everyone, I have been troubled by an issue with my Spotify for a long time. The lyrics always shrink when the song switc...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceiPadOperating SystemiOS My Question or IssueDoes anyone recommend another music service to use? We are lucky if we can string a few songs together without an issue. Constantly, pausing and playing, closing and opening app, r...
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Plan Premium Country US Device iPad Operating System iOS My Question or Issue Does anyone recommend another music service to use? We are lucky if we can string a few songs toge...
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Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice: iPhone 15 proOperating System: iOS 18.4.1 (May 2025) My Question or Issue: Randomly while I am driving, downloaded songs will skip, pause, or speed up. I thought the whole idea of having songs downloaded in my playlis...
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Plan: Premium Country: USA Device: iPhone 15 pro Operating System: iOS 18.4.1 (May 2025) My Question or Issue: Randomly while I am driving, downloaded songs will s...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceiPhone 13 ProOperating SystemiOS 18.5 My Question or IssueSub-folders inside of one folder not displaying after a certain point on iOS. They also are not clickable. I have my spotify set up where I have folders for each art...
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Plan Premium Country USA Device iPhone 13 Pro Operating System iOS 18.5 My Question or Issue Sub-folders inside of one folder not displaying after a certain point on iOS. They also a...
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I have always had the ability to see lyrics for every song now it’s gone and i’m not sure why. I have a premium account and everything.
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I have always had the ability to see lyrics for every song now it’s gone and i’m not sure why. I have a premium account and everything.
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Plan Premium Country Myanmar Device (iPhone 12) Operating System (iOS 18.5) My Question or Issue Hello, I’m using Spotify on my iPhone 12 (iOS 17.xx), and I recently noticed...
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After offloading the app, deleting and then re-downloading it to fix half of my album art not showing up, I have ran into another issue… Album art is now blurry/low quality under “my Library”. Even the custom images (that are high rez) I apply to pla...
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After offloading the app, deleting and then re-downloading it to fix half of my album art not showing up, I have ran into another issue… Album art is now blurry/low quality under “my Library...
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Ever since the Ramsey Show Highlights added video it causes subsequent podcast in the “Your Epidodes” list to not play. I send Spotify to the background, but the video embedded Ramsey podcast still kills the other podcast episodes. It is worse and mo...
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Ever since the Ramsey Show Highlights added video it causes subsequent podcast in the “Your Epidodes” list to not play. I send Spotify to the background, but the video embedded Ramsey podcast still ...
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If I click the play button in any album Spotify plays songs in shuffle mode. If I disable shuffle mode and switch to another album shuffle is back on. Means Spotify never plays an album or playlist from the beginning. I already reinstalled Spotify. T...
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Tried playing “Up to no Good” by the Hoosiers and something entirely different is playing, I’m not sure what’s going on
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Tried playing “Up to no Good” by the Hoosiers and something entirely different is playing, I’m not sure what’s going on
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Hello! My Spotify version is currently 9.0.60.632 So the issue I have is everytime I try to play a song it won’t let me and says I need premium to play the playlist. I tried multiple stuff like restarting my device, redownloading the app, using anoth...
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Hello! My Spotify version is currently 9.0.60.632 So the issue I have is everytime I try to play a song it won’t let me and says I need premium to play the playlist. I tried multiple st...
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