Spotify now lets parents stop kids’ music from influencing their recommendations
Spotify is giving parents more control over their taste profile, allowing them to exclude kids and family music from recommendations and Wrapped.
Parents everywhere, rejoice! If your Spotify recommendations have started sounding suspiciously like your child’s favourite playlist, there’s now a way to fix it.
Spotify is introducing a new setting that lets parents and other listeners exclude kids and family music from their taste profile. That means songs played during family time can stay out of personalised recommendations, including Discover Weekly, Daily Mix and your Spotify Wrapped.
The feature is rolling out globally on mobile to both Free and Premium users.
How Spotify’s new toggle works
Spotify’s new toggle is designed for those times when the music you’re listening to doesn’t necessarily reflect your own taste.
Parents can still search for, listen to and create playlists featuring kids and family music as usual. The difference is that those streams won’t be used to shape Spotify’s understanding of what they like.
That could cover everything from nursery rhymes and children’s songs to music from animated films and family TV shows. So, you can put on your child’s favourite soundtrack during the school run or play nursery rhymes at home without those songs influencing what Spotify recommends to you later.
The setting is called “Include kids and family music in taste profile” and is turned on by default. Users can switch it off whenever they want.
That’s also a particular benefit when it comes to Wrapped. Spotify says the change applies retroactively, meaning kids and family music you have already listened to will no longer count towards relevant Wrapped results.
So, if a children’s song has somehow become your most-played track of 2026 after months of family listening, switching off the setting can remove its influence on your Wrapped.
To switch it off, go to Settings and privacy > Content and display, then turn off Include kids and family music in taste profile. Spotify says it can take up to 48 hours for the changes to appear in personalised recommendations.
Spotify is giving listeners more control over recommendations
The new feature follows several other updates aimed at giving Spotify listeners more control over what influences their recommendations.
Spotify introduced the ability to exclude playlists from a user’s taste profile in 2023. Spotify’s taste profile is essentially its interpretation of your listening habits. It helps shape personalised experiences including Discover Weekly, Daily Mix and Wrapped. This was designed for listening that might be useful in a particular situation without necessarily representing someone’s overall taste.
In 2025, Spotify expanded the feature to let listeners exclude individual tracks too. This means users can remove specific songs from their taste profile without having to exclude an entire playlist.
The new kids and family music setting takes that idea further by allowing users to automatically separate a particular category of listening from their personal recommendations.
It also comes alongside Spotify’s managed accounts for younger listeners. First introduced in 2024 and expanded to more markets in 2026, managed accounts give younger listeners their own space to discover music while providing parents and guardians with controls over their experience.
Together, these features show Spotify continuing to give listeners more control over how their listening habits feed into its personalised experiences.
Keep family listening separate from your own taste
Spotify’s latest update is a relatively simple change, but it addresses a familiar problem for parents who share their account or regularly use Spotify for family listening.
You can now put on the songs your kids love without worrying that they’ll shape your recommendations or, come the end of the year, dominate your Wrapped.
It’s another step towards giving listeners more control over what Spotify considers part of their personal taste.
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