Spotify's Managed Accounts Will Help Keep Your Kids From Wrecking Your Music Taste Profile

Spotify has introduced a caller "managed accounts" characteristic aimed astatine younger listeners. Initially piloted past twelvemonth and launching successful 7 caller markets, including nan US, today, it allows parents and guardians pinch a Spotify Premium Family scheme to allocate their children a dedicated floor plan pinch their ain personalized recommendations and civilization playlists.

The thought is that nan adults tin select retired definitive content, limit nan playback of definite artists and hide video playback features, including Canvas, should they want to. Users connected this floor plan can’t usage interactivity features for illustration Messages either.

Perhaps astir importantly of each for some, a managed relationship besides ensures that your individual Wrapped results astatine nan extremity of nan twelvemonth aren’t dominated by immoderate TikTok-viral songs nan kids person been obsessively playing connected repetition for months — and they won't messiness pinch your Discover Weekly algorithm either. Spotify's 'Exclude from your Taste Profile' feature already offers a measurement of keeping nan delirium your kids mightiness beryllium listening to distant from your ain recommended content, but this feels for illustration a cleaner action for families.

Standard Spotify Premium features for illustration daylist and nan aforementioned Discover Weekly stay disposable to personification utilizing a managed account, making it a amended action for kids becoming willing successful euphony (they whitethorn moreover person gotten hooked connected a set you’ve been listening to successful nan car) than nan Spotify Kids app, which is very overmuch designed for nan 'Baby Shark' devotees. It’s astir apt adjuvant to deliberation of a managed relationship arsenic a span betwixt that and an unrestricted Premium relationship wherever each nan euphony successful nan world is astatine your fingertips.

To group up a managed account, nan scheme proprietor has to spell into their relationship settings wrong nan Spotify app and prime "Add a Member," followed by selecting "Add a listener aged nether 13." The app will supply further instructions from there. As a reminder, a Spotify Premium Family scheme is required to group up a managed account. This presently costs $20 per month.