Anyone who shares a Spotify account with a child knows the drill: play nursery rhymes or an animated-movie soundtrack often enough, and suddenly those songs start influencing recommendations.
Spotify now has a setting designed specifically to remove kids and family music from your Taste Profile without blocking that music from being played.
The one-tap setting is called "Include kids and family music in taste profile," and Spotify began rolling it out globally Sept. 15 on mobile for Free and Premium accounts, according to Spotify's announcement.
The setting is on by default. Switch it off and Spotify says kids and family music will stop influencing personalized recommendations and listening insights. The change also applies retroactively, so past kids music listening will no longer count toward Wrapped categories such as top song or top artist.
What to check before you turn off kids and family music
Spotify currently documents the setting for its mobile and tablet apps. The company does not provide a desktop or web path for changing it.
Turning the setting off does not block children's music. You can still search for, play and add those songs to playlists. It only changes how those streams influence Spotify's personalization.
Spotify defines kids and family music as content including:
Animated and live-action film soundtracks
Theme songs and music from family TV shows
Music from family entertainment brands and characters
Family-friendly covers
Nursery rhymes and lullabies
Sing-along, educational and activity music
Family-oriented novelty and parody tracks
Spotify says white noise, nature sounds, ambient audio, lo-fi and other study music are not necessarily classified as kids and family music. Podcasts and audiobooks are also not currently included, although Spotify says support for those content types could be added later.
If the toggle does not appear, make sure the Spotify app is current. Spotify describes the feature as a global rollout for Free and Premium users.
How to turn off kids music in Spotify recommendations
The setting takes only a few taps to change:
Open the Spotify mobile app and tap your profile picture.
Tap Settings and privacy.
Select Content and display.
Under Content preferences, find Include kids and family music in your taste profile and switch it off.
You only need to change the setting for the Spotify account. It affects the recommendations associated with that account rather than simply changing what appears on the phone used to adjust it.
Kids can continue listening normally after the toggle is switched off.
How long changes take and what happens to Wrapped
Spotify says excluding kids and family music can take up to 48 hours to fully affect personalized recommendations.
Some weekly playlists may take longer. Discover Weekly, for example, may not reflect the change until its next scheduled refresh.
The setting also changes Wrapped. Spotify says kids and family streams excluded through the toggle will no longer shape Wrapped results, including categories such as top song and top artist.
Spotify has not published 2026 Wrapped eligibility rules yet. For 2025, a personalized Wrapped required at least 30 eligible song streams of more than 30 seconds across at least five artists.
There is no need to wait until Wrapped season to use the setting. Because Spotify applies the exclusion retroactively, turning it off now will remove previous kids and family listening from the affected personalization data as well.
Which Spotify recommendations change?
Spotify's current support documentation confirms that switching off kids and family music affects:
The Home feed
Discover Weekly
Daily Mixes
Wrapped
Other personalized recommendations and listening insights
That is broader than the examples Spotify highlighted when the feature launched.
The setting does not hide or block songs. If you search for a children's soundtrack or play a nursery-rhyme playlist directly, it will still work normally.
Spotify has not separately documented how the toggle affects every recommendation surface, such as individual radio stations or autoplay sessions. The safest description is that it removes kids and family listening from the account's Taste Profile and the personalized experiences Spotify says that profile influences.
How to exclude individual songs and playlists instead
The kids-and-family toggle is useful when children's music is a recurring part of a shared account. For occasional listening, Spotify already offers a more targeted option.
To exclude an individual song or playlist:
Select the track or playlist.
Tap the three-dot menu.
Choose Exclude from your taste profile.
Selecting Include in your taste profile later reverses the change.
Spotify says track and playlist exclusions are available globally to Free and Premium users on web, desktop, iOS and Android.
Excluding a track or playlist reduces the influence of both past and future streams on music recommendations and Taste Profile summaries. Spotify says those streams are also excluded from Wrapped stories and data points other than total listening time.
That makes individual exclusions useful for one-off listening that does not justify switching off the broader kids-and-family category.
When a managed account makes more sense
For a child who uses Spotify independently on a regular basis, a managed account provides a cleaner separation.
Managed accounts are designed for young listeners under 13, or the equivalent age in their region. Each account gets separate recommendations and its own music library and Wrapped experience, while a parent or guardian controls settings such as explicit content and access to particular artists or songs.
Spotify now supports managed accounts on both its free, ad-supported service and Premium Family, although availability varies by country.
For Premium Family subscribers, a managed account can occupy one of the plan's six slots and receive Premium benefits such as ad-free listening and offline downloads. Other parents and guardians can create free, ad-supported managed accounts where supported.
The difference is straightforward: the kids-and-family toggle cleans up recommendations on a shared account, while a managed account separates the child's listening from the parent's profile entirely.
Which option fits your household
If kids music regularly plays through your own Spotify account, switch off Include kids and family music in your taste profile under Settings and privacy > Content and display.
For an occasional song or playlist that does not represent your taste, use the individual Exclude from your taste profile option instead.
If a child uses Spotify independently and managed accounts are available in your country, creating a separate managed account provides the strongest separation between their listening and your recommendations.
Whichever option you use, remember that Spotify says Taste Profile changes can take up to 48 hours to fully appear, and weekly recommendations such as Discover Weekly may not change until their next refresh.
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