[All Platforms] Customize Start Screen

[DK411]

This is not a new idea, but I haven't found any practical reply to it, so I think it needs to be repeated. I completely agree with Rennestein (screen capture below), we need to stop seeing irrelevant suggestions because it is annoying. Why can't it be possible to decide what we first see when we open Spotify on any device? (playlists, recently played, artists we're following, etc), and enjoy better our Spotify experience?
Please Spotify, let us have the home screen as we'd like. :)) Thank you!

[prauh]

I hate having the "Your Shows" section on my homepage. They arent my shows at all and its just annoying. Spotify is all about customizing the listening experience around your preferences -- why are you pushing this Podcast content so hard down our throats? Its doesn't make sense to me. Please let us remove it.

[BigTestikules]

This post was updated FOUR YEARS AGO, has over 9000 votes and nothing has changed...

[Cody7]

I would like to be able to customize start screen, pick favorite categories, or even just give feedback like "show more of this/show less" type of feedback. For example: I absolutely love the "trending albums for you" list and I've found some great new albums and artists through it; but it's only on my home page so often and it gets annoying just randomly scrolling trying to find it and it's not there.

[wayrachaki]

Please do anything but force me into using these awful giant tiles. 

[nigel166]

i want to delete items from my home screen , very unhappy this is not possible

[vm-22]

October 2022 and still the same problem; i have just finished a 10 minute session with customer service and get sent to this community where first enough votes have to be given for it to become even eligible for a complaint???

What kind of customer service or complaints registration is this? i am getting bombarded daily with a picture of explicit content on my home page that i just want gone.... is it that much to ask? What if this gives me more anxiety? i am trying to file an official complaint and am getting fobbed off with an detour.

[vm-22]

that option doesnt work anymore 😞

[paddotk]

@Novy @Jeremy @OscarDC
Moderators, thanks for your suggestion to vote, but unfortunately all related votable items in the 'ideas' section aren't exactly the same issue. Those are more related to managing podcasts etc., but not showing unwanted content on the homescreen for all eternity.

I'm much less concerned about my home screen/library being a mess or showing content not interesting for me; I'm more concerned about weird or sexual content being suggested, only because I once ended up on this while searching for something else. Ever since I have to be really careful opening up Spotify at work, or my colleagues think I'm listening to NSFW content at work.

[Joielevivre]

Not being able to hide or remove any of “my shows” (I am not following ANY of them) from the top of the Home Screen might lead to me getting outed for having ADHD at work. All because I listened to 2 episodes of a podcast once. Wondering if HIPPA laws might play into this. I don’t understand why this is a difficult feature. Is Spotify being incentivized for this design?

[Mr2Happy]

Just sent an unhinged rant to some poor B*st*rd at Spotify customer service about this. Hopefully he at least works from home so he could be stoned when reading that $h!t.

Love this app, but have never been so aggregated at my home page today.

Why the h3ll are they breaking things that don't need fixing, and shoving unwanted content in our face like Apple did U2's album?

Let us pick what we want to see to some extent. At the very least, let me remove all podcast stuff from my homepage and let me turn off notifications and suggestions for political garbage or identity p0L!tics.

Idc if a person is black or gay. If their music matches what the app sees as my style, PLAY IT FOR ME. They aren't great artists because of their skin color, and it's insulting to not promote good music based of it's artistic merit itself and do it for identity politics and virtue signaling.