{"id":841618,"date":"2026-08-03T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841618\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:25:10","slug":"how-to-disable-music-videos-in-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/841618\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Disable Music Videos in Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotify, it\u2019s fair to say, has made some weird user-experience choices.<\/p>\n

There are a number of panels in the app, and the layout is confusing. The service constantly tracks<\/a> your activity. The app also seems to have an odd hostility to playing actual albums<\/a>. This all works to create a general feeling that Spotify\u2019s<\/a> designers are trying to push you into using the service in a particular way.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understandable, then, that some people are annoyed with the way music videos have been added to the platform. For the most part, they would start to play by default, in the background, whenever an artist had uploaded a video for the song. Some music videos have very different audio from the original tracks, particularly if they include sketches or sound effects, which can prove distracting if you prefer the album version of the song. And even if you enjoy music videos (which I do), the decision to have videos play by default \u2013 using up bandwidth and battery power \u2013 upset a lot of people.<\/p>\n

There are a few other quirks. On Spotify\u2019s desktop app, the videos are barely visible; they stay contained in the tiny album art panel until you manage to find the hidden, extremely small \u201cNow Playing\u201d button that enlarges them. Also, the selection of videos that are on the platform, and the ones that are mysteriously absent, seems totally random. Because of this, I check YouTube first when I really want to watch a music video.<\/p>\n

The most annoying thing, though, had been a lack of any obvious way to disable all videos. That changed recently<\/a> \u2013 there\u2019s now a toggle in the settings to disable music videos in Spotify entirely, alongside controls that disable the \u201cCanvas\u201d feature (animated album art) and video podcasts.<\/p>\n

On mobile you can do this by tapping your user profile icon in the top left to bring up the side panel. Then tap \u201cSettings and privacy\u201d, followed by \u201cContent and display\u201d.<\/p>\n

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