iOS · iPhone & iPad

Control Spotify Recently Played Artists Instead of Clearing History

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Answer

Spotify’s current support guidance covers hiding Recently played artists from your profile, not clearing the full listening history. Open Settings and privacy, turn off Recently played artists, and use Private Session for future listening privacy.

Guide steps4 steps
  1. Open Spotify privacy settings
  2. Hide Recently played artists
  3. Use Private Session for future listening
  4. Verify the result
  5. If it still does not work

Open Spotify privacy settings

On mobile, open your profile picture, then Settings and privacy.

Hide Recently played artists

Under Privacy and social, turn off Recently played artists to stop showing them on your profile.

Use Private Session for future listening

Turn on Private Session when you do not want current listening to affect social activity; it ends after a restart or inactivity.

Verify the result

View the profile from a trusted account and confirm Recently played artists are hidden, while understanding the private account history itself was not erased.

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If it does not work

  • If artists remain visible, verify the correct account and privacy toggle and allow sync time. Do not provide credentials to a service claiming to delete Spotify history.
Sources and verification

Checked against official documentation on . Scope: iPhone & iPad.

Reviewed against the linked first-party guidance; interface labels can vary by current app, service, or operating-system version.

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