Spotify has a new feature: managed accounts. Made for kids under 13, these allow parents to control and monitor what their children listen to.
Launched on Tuesday as part of Spotify’s Premium Family plan, the feature may be welcome by folks who struggled with their kids constantly stumbling upon age inappropriate content. But I bet a lot of users will be even more excited about the fact that this means your kids’ songs can now be kept out your recommendations and Spotify Wrapped lists.
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The new feature, launched in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and Netherlands, lets users with an active Family Plan create managed accounts with several specific controls. These include the self-explanatory Explicit Content Filter, the ability to restrict the playback of certain artists, songs, or explicit versions of releases, and a toggle for hiding video and Canvas (on Spotify, these are the short looping videos that accompany some songs). Messages and other interactive features are also not available on managed accounts.
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I’ll skip the “Pop Rising” list, thank you.
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To set up a managed account, open your account page in the Spotify app, select “Add a Member,” and select “Add a listener aged under 13 (or local market equivalent).”
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Now for the good part: Each managed account has its own recommendations and Wrapped lists. This means that you won’t be seeing your toddler’s favorite lullaby as your top song of the year in Spotify Wrapped, but also that you won’t get recommendations based on the songs your kids listen to. Perfect.
