Spotify’s newest feature has been on my Apple Music wishlist for years
Key Points:
- Spotify has introduced a new toggle feature allowing parents to exclude kids and family music from their taste profile, ensuring these songs do not influence recommendations, Wrapped summaries, or playlists like Discover Weekly and Daily Mix.
- This setting applies retroactively, so previously played children’s music will no longer affect users' personalized music insights or suggestions.
- Parents can still search for and listen to children’s music, but these streams will be excluded from shaping their overall music preferences on Spotify.
- To activate the feature, users need to go to ‘Settings and privacy,’ then ‘Content and display,’ and disable the ‘Include kids and family music in taste profile’ toggle.
- Apple Music currently lacks a similar native feature, with the only workaround being the use of Focus modes to manage listening history, which may be inconvenient for most parents.