Spotify now lets you clean up its Home screen on your phone. You can hide the music, podcast or audiobook tiles stuck at the top of Home, delete single items from your Recents shelf, and tell the app to play fewer episodes from a show or fewer books from an author.
Spotify is sending the update to every market, to both Free and Premium accounts, in the mobile app, so a listener in Pakistan needs only the latest version.
For the top tiles and for Recents, long-press the item and tap “Remove from this section”. Spotify’s announcement says this is only housekeeping: it tidies the screen but does not change what the app recommends later.
The third control is the one that steers recommendations. “Not interested” already existed in places on Home, and it now covers specific shows and authors, so a podcast you tried once need not keep returning. Spotify counts “Not interested” and Taste Profile as the tools that shape future suggestions.
Taste Profile is separate and still limited. It is in beta for eligible Premium listeners in the US and New Zealand, and lets them mark what they want to hear more or less of.
It is the second Spotify control change in a week: on 10 November the company added nine voices to its DJ and let Premium users switch off its commentary.
To get them, update the Spotify app on your phone: the controls are part of the mobile app, and Spotify says nothing about the desktop or web player.
