How to enable private listening

Private session lets you listen privately without sharing your listening activity.

When it's on:

• Your listening doesn't appear in Friends Activity
• Your recently played artists don't update on your profile
• Your listening isn't used to personalize recommendations while the session is active

Private session is an account-level setting. Turning it on from one device applies it across all your devices, including TVs, speakers, and other connected devices.

Private session turns off automatically after 6 hours, or when you restart the app.

Note: Private session only affects what you listen to while it’s on. Listening during a Private session won’t affect your recommendations or appear in your Wrapped.

• Mobile and tablet

  1. Tap your profile picture at the top.
  2. Tap Settings and privacy .
  3. Tap Privacy and social.
  4. Under Listening activity, switch Private Session on .

  To end a Private Session, repeat the steps and switch it off.

  The Private Session ends automatically after 6 hours, or when you restart Spotify.

• Desktop

  1. Click your profile picture at the top.
  2. Click Private session.

  To end a Private Session, repeat the steps and switch it off.

  The Private Session ends automatically after 6 hours, or when you restart Spotify.