Quick advice
Set Spotify parental controls to prevent your child from listening to any inappropriate content.
Disable explicit content
Restrict your child from listening to any audio that features explicit language or content.
Setting content level
Choose what content your child can listen to on Spotify Kids by selecting their age range.
Blocking content
Block any specific content that you do not want your child listening to.
How to set parental controls on Spotify & Spotify Kids
You will need a Spotify Family Plan, with your child’s account linked to it.
How to disable explicit content
If you have a Spotify Family Plan, with your child’s account linked to it, you can disable explicit content for their account.
To disable explicit content:
Step 1 – Go to your Spotify homepage and click your profile picture in the top right corner.
Step 2 – From the dropdown, select Account.
Step 3 – Inside your account settings, click Manage members.
Step 4 – Inside the Manage your Family plan section, select the family member whose settings you want to change.
Step 5 – Inside the member’s account settings, switch the Play explicit content toggle so that its says disabled.
Your child will now be unable to listen to any songs or podcasts that are marked as explicit.
Setting up Spotify Kids
If you want to have more control over how your child uses Spotify, you can set them up with a Spotify Kids account instead of a regular Spotify account. In order to set up a Spotify Kids account, you must have a Spotify Family Plan and have downloaded the Spotify Kids app on the device your child will use.
To set up Spotify Kids:
Step 1 – Open up the Spotify Kids app and sign in using your own Spotify account. When asked for parental consent, tick the check box and click continue.
Step 2 – Set a 4-digit PIN. This must be input when making any parental control changes in future.
Step 3 – Select what kind of content you want your child to have access to, with a choice of content aimed at 0-6 year olds or content for 5-12 year olds. You can change this choice later in the parental control settings.
Step 4 – Your child’s Spotify Kids account is now set up. To view their account settings, click on the profile picture in the top left corner of the screen.
Step 5 – On the Who’s listening? page, click the gear icon in the top right corner of the screen, next to where it says Grown-ups.
Step 6 – Now input the 4-digit PIN that you created when setting up Spotify Kids.
Step 7 – Select the profile of the child whose settings you want to change.
Step 8 – From inside the Edit account menu, you can now begin changing the controls on your child’s account.
Setting content level
Parents can change what level of content their child can listen to, with a choice of audio for older kids aged 5-12 or for younger kids aged 0-6.
To change the content level:
Step 1 – From the edit account menu, click Audio for [whichever age you currently have set].
Step 2 – Select the audio you would like your child to have access to. Then click Continue.
Your child’s Spotify Kids content will now be changed.
Sharing playlists
Parents have the option to create a playlist on their own Spotify and fill it with songs and podcasts that they would like their child to listen to. They can then share this playlist to their child’s Spotify Kids account.
To share a playlist:
Step 1 – From the Edit account page, select Shared playlists
Step 2 – Your playlists will be shown here. Select the playlist you want to share and then click Share at the bottom of the page.
Your child will now be able to listen to your playlist from their Spotify Kids account.
Viewing listening history
Parents can stay aware of what their children have been listening to recently by viewing their listening history in the account settings.
To view listening history:
Step 1 – From the Edit account page, select Listening history.
Step 2 – Inside the listening history page you can see all the recent content your child has listened to.
Blocking content
Spotify Kids only contains content that is appropriate for children. However, if there is any content you would like to block, you can do this through the parental settings.
To block content:
Step 1 – From the Edit account page, select Blocked content.
Step 2 – Within this page you can view all the content you have blocked. If you’d like to block something else, click View listening history.
Step 3 – Inside the listening history page, click the block icon next to any songs or podcasts you wish to block.
Step 4 – When you receive a popup, click Block to confirm blocking the content.
When the block icon goes red, it will show the content is blocked.
