The Spotify music subscription service is some of the best money that I spend each month. You get access to a huge library of songs, and user-friendly apps for most of the popular devices that you probably have in your home and use every day.
But some of the settings in the iPhone Spotify app may function in a way that negatively impacts your Spotify experience, leaving you looking for a way to turn some of them off. If the Autoplay feature, which will play similar songs after your selected song is over, is a feature that you dislike, then you can follow the steps below to turn it off.
How to Stop Spotify from Playing Similar Songs When Your Selected Song Ends
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10.3.3. The version of Spotify being used was the most recent version available when this article was written.
Step 1: Open the Spotify app.
Step 2: Select the Your Library tab at the bottom of the screen.
Step 3: Touch the Gear icon at the top-right of the screen.
Step 4: Choose the Playback option.
Step 5: Scroll down and touch the button to the right of Autoplay to turn it off. The setting is disabled when there is no green shading around the button. I have turned it off in the picture below.
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While you are in Spotify’s settings, you can also choose which Spotify notifications reach your iPhone.
Tidying up your library is easier once you know how to give a Spotify playlist a new name.
For songs that are actually in your playlist, follow the steps to remove a song from a Spotify playlist on iPhone.
For more data savings, you can also turn off Spotify downloads over cellular so playlists only download on Wi-Fi.
Kermit Matthews runs Live2Tech from just outside Philadelphia. He is an IT specialist with over 20 years of experience, from a university help desk to small-business IT, IT management and his own consulting practice, and has written tech guides full time since 2020. Steps are checked against the current software on a real device or the maker’s official documentation. More about Kermit.