Managed accounts for young listeners

For: Parents or legal guardians

Managed accounts let young listeners explore music only, while you control the experience.

The experience across plans

A managed account can be on our free, ad-supported plan or a Premium Family plan. Both offer settings and features you control for young listeners.

All managed accounts provide:

• Parental controls for explicit content, videos, specific artists or songs, and more
• Separate accounts with separate music recommendations
• You'll need to log in for them, but they won't be able to access your Spotify
• Profiles that can’t be followed or searched by other users
• No in-app purchases
• Available on phones, tablets, and speakers

For more details, read our Parental guide.

Creating a managed account

The young listener’s experience depends on your current plan.

Giving parental consent

When creating a managed account, we ask you to confirm you’re the parent or guardian and provide consent using one of the methods below, which may include verification through Yoti, a trusted digital identity company. For more information about how we process your personal data, see our Privacy Policy.

Visit our Safety and Privacy center for more details about our partnership with Yoti.

• Photo of your ID

• Credit or debit card

Profile customization

Young listener profiles show:

• Name
• Number of followed artists
• Playlists created or saved

To personalize their profile, a young listener can also select an avatar from a set list.

This profile can be seen on your shared device, but can’t be found by any others on Spotify.

Note: If a young listener shares a link to a personal playlist, their name and avatar (if they picked one) will also be displayed.

Managed accounts have limited interactivity and can’t access features with other users like Jam, Blend, and collaborative playlists.

Data privacy

Spotify will collect the young listener’s data to offer personalized music recommendations.

As parent or guardian, you have the ability to exercise privacy rights on behalf of the young listener, including the ability to request a copy of the young listener’s personal data or delete their account data.

All young listeners can exercise their privacy rights within the app without parental support, including:

• Downloading their account data
• Deleting their data and closing their account

• To download account data

• To delete data and close account

To learn more about these rights and how Spotify collects, uses, shares and protects personal data, please read Spotify’s Privacy Policy.

Managing playlists

Playlists created by you or others on Spotify can be shared with young listeners via a share link.

Tip: If the explicit content filter is enabled, the young listener can’t play any content labeled as explicit in these playlists.

Young listeners can also create their own playlists. They can share these playlists with you or others via a share link.

• Young listeners can personalize playlist titles, but can’t upload pictures as playlist cover images.
• You and others on Spotify can’t search for playlists made by young listeners.
• If a young listener shares a playlist, or follows a playlist shared with them, their name and avatar (if they picked one) is displayed but the young listener’s profile will not be shared.

Notes:

• Young listeners can only share and receive playlists made by others via a direct link to the playlist through apps with sharing functionality installed on their device.
• Playlists made by others may contain personalized cover images, titles and descriptions.
• By default, managed accounts can’t search for playlists created by other users.

Reporting inappropriate content

Our Platform Rules outline what is and isn’t allowed on Spotify. We always prioritize the review of reported content that impacts young listeners, presents a greater risk of offline harm, or may be illegal.

Young listeners can report content with their parent or guardian’s help:

1. Tap the options menu next to a song, playlist title, or artist name.
2. Select Report. An in-app message will ask young listeners to hand the device to their parent or guardian.
3. Once the parent or guardian enters the PIN, they’ll be directed to the ‘report content’ page.
4. The parent can then complete the form using their details, and select Submit.