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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Start a topicI don’t want to listen to music that’s not in my playlist
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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Hi, I don’t remember when this started, but for several weeks or months the iPad app is no longer remembering scroll position in playlists when I close and reopen the app. As soon as I switch to ano...
Jeremy
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADevice(iPhone 6S)Operating System(iOS 14.2) My Question or IssueSpotify keeps crashing every time a song is playing. It's been happening for over a week. Is there a solution to stop this? It's starting to annoy me.
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Plan Premium Country USA Device (iPhone 6S) Operating System (iOS 14.2) My Question or Issue Spotify keeps crashing every time a song is playing. It's been happening for over...
Billy-J
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Plan Premium Country India Device iPhone 7 Operating System iOS 14.2 My Question or Issue I was having sync issues between my playback history on Spotify iOS ...
Katerina
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Make the IOS version of Spotify like the android version where when you are looking at your liked songs for a specific artist it is divided up with the album header and picture. Makes it a lot more difficult to find songs on iOS without this.
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Make the IOS version of Spotify like the android version where when you are looking at your liked songs for a specific artist it is divided up with the album header and picture. Makes it a lot more d...
Mario
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PlanPremium FamilyCountryUnited StatesDeviceiPhone XROperating SystemiOS 14.2 My Question or IssueMy spotify app pauses the music at random intervals. It may happen 5 seconds after I begin playing music, or it may not happen for five minutes. Somethi...
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Plan Premium Family Country United States Device iPhone XR Operating System iOS 14.2 My Question or Issue My spotify app pauses the music at random intervals. It may happen 5 seconds...
Mihail
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When you go to an artist there’s a play button on the right side of the screen normally when you click this it starts to shuffle all songs by that artist but when I hit the play button Nothing happens on all artists I’ve tried many why is this happen...
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When you go to an artist there’s a play button on the right side of the screen normally when you click this it starts to shuffle all songs by that artist but when I hit the play button Nothing happen...
Ivan
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After I scroll down the playlist page and leave the iPad app and come back to it after using another app, it automatically jumps back to the top of the playlist page. It does stay at the section where I leave the app before. This only happened after ...
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After I scroll down the playlist page and leave the iPad app and come back to it after using another app, it automatically jumps back to the top of the playlist page. It does stay at the section wher...
Ivan
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PlanPremiumCountryHong KongDeviceiPhone 11Operating SystemiOS 14.2 My Question or IssueThe lyrics feature on my Spotify isn’t working.Already tried to clean reinstall the app, still not working. Tried logging in with my friend(iPhone 7) account, lyri...
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Plan Premium Country Hong Kong Device iPhone 11 Operating System iOS 14.2 My Question or Issue The lyrics feature on my Spotify isn’t working. Already tried to clean reinsta...
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Today while listening to music I discovered that I was playing an artist that I blocked...So immediately went to Hidden section (blocked artists) and saw that all my hidden artist were gone.It got me very disappointed as I blocked over 500 artists th...
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Today while listening to music I discovered that I was playing an artist that I blocked... So immediately went to Hidden section (blocked artists) and saw that all my hidden artist were gone. It go...
Alex
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I have Spotify premium. It keeps crashing on my phone. I tried resetting my phone. I’ve also tried to uninstall and install again, this fixed it for like two days and it went back to the same issue. I can’t even get through one song!
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I have Spotify premium. It keeps crashing on my phone. I tried resetting my phone. I’ve also tried to uninstall and install again, this fixed it for like two days and it went back to the same issue. ...
Billy-J
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Hi,since a few weeks my Spotify App is starting to play random music several hours after I locked (flight-mode) my phone (and it starts when the phone is still locked). Actually it happens every (very) early morning when I used Spotify the evening be...
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Hi, since a few weeks my Spotify App is starting to play random music several hours after I locked (flight-mode) my phone (and it starts when the phone is still locked). Actually it happens every (v...
Loxer
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Plan Free Country US Device iPhone 11 Plus Operating System iOS 10 My Question or Issue I am trying to play the All Time Low artist station and it either plays one ad and nothing els...
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I synced local files from my laptop to my phone and they are greyed out so can't play or download them. I tried everything I could find online but nothing solves it. Even did a clean reinstall of the app but it keeps happening.PlanPremiumCountryGerma...
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I synced local files from my laptop to my phone and they are greyed out so can't play or download them. I tried everything I could find online but nothing solves it. Even did a clean reinstall of the...
Alex
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PlanPremium CountryCzech Republic DeviceiPhone SEOperating System(iOS 14.2) I use Spotify in a car through AUX cable, without Bluetooth because my car doesn’t have one. Is there any way how you can manually start car view? It will be better for safet...
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Alex
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PlanPremium CountryTurkey DeviceiPhone 8 Operating SystemiOS 14.2 (latest version) My Question or IssueFor a week now, while I’m listening to music on my phone the app is closing itself. When I logged into it again, the app’s symbol showed off like I...
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Plan Premium Country Turkey Device iPhone 8 Operating System iOS 14.2 (latest version) My Question or Issue For a week now, while I’m listening to music on my...
Jeremy
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is there a way to disable volume control since doing it on the device turns down the volume on spotify. i never wanted to control the volume on my phone since i can do it on my phone. not to mention i always forget and blast my ears out because spoti...
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is there a way to disable volume control since doing it on the device turns down the volume on spotify. i never wanted to control the volume on my phone since i can do it on my phone. not to mention ...
Jeremy
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