When you have your listening activity turned on on Spotify, all your friends can see what you’re listening to. So to help you hide this activity, Spotify has introduced Spotify private sessions. When you turn on the private session, not only your friends can no longer see what you are listening to, but your Spotify algorithm will also not be affected by your temporary listening activity.
A private session helps you hide your listening activity from people. So this feature is extremely useful if you’re lending your Spotify to somebody else and don’t want their listening activity to reflect yours. Also, users also turn on private session when they are discovering new music.
In this article, we’ll see what Spotify private session is and everything you need to know about these sessions:
What Is A Private Session On Spotify?
A private session on Spotify is to prevent people that follow you from seeing what you’re listening to. You can turn on the private setting for a time, and during that period, all the songs and artists you listen to stay hidden from the friend’s activity tab on your followers’ page. So if you want your listening history to be secret for a while, you can use the private session to listen to songs in.
The songs you listen to in this session are your business, and the app won’t share them with anyone else. After you start listening to songs in secrecy, this session will be on until you stop listening to songs for a long time or close your app.
How To Use Spotify Private Session (Mobile)?
Most of us use the Spotify app to listen to songs on our phones. This is where we make playlists, delete playlists, and also try deleting recently played. So first, let’s see how to turn on Spotify private session on your phone from the app:
- Open Spotify and tap on the Settings icon at the top right corner of the screen.
- Scroll down to find the Social tab and turn the toggle on for ‘Private session.’
This is how you hide your currently listening tracks from your friends on Spotify on your Spotify app. You have successfully learned how to start a private session. When you are done, you can go and turn the toggle off to turn off the session, or you can just close the app, as that will automatically end the session.
What Does Private Session On Spotify Look Like To Others?
When you start a private session on Spotify, your friends don’t see what you are listening to. In fact, your friends will see a blue lock sign next to your profile to indicate an ongoing private session.
A private Spotify session is how you can maintain privacy on the app while listening to songs you don’t want to share with your friends and followers. Those who don’t want to go through the trouble of starting a private session every time just remove their followers from Spotify. People also use this feature when they are lending their Spotify account to someone else, and they don’t want their recommendations to be mixed with the songs they never listen to.
Your followers will not be able to see your listening activity when you turn on the private session. You can turn on the session from your Spotify settings and turn them off the same way or just close the app to turn them off automatically. You can do this from your Spotify app on your mobile as well as your desktop.