Profile picture changes by itself

[magnusf2]

Hi!

My Spotify isn´t connected to Facebook. But I changed my profile picture in FB the other day and now its been changed on Spotify too.

It´s kind of creepy to see that Spotify changes my profile picture to the same one as on FB when the two are not connected. Seems like they´re doing it without my permission then?

If not, then why is this happening?

Thanks

/ M

[user-removed]

If your account was created using Facebook, maybe that's the reason.

[magnusf2]

Hi! Sorry or the late reply.

No, under settings it shows "connect to facebook", so I should not be connected yet. And there is no "delete" option when hovering over the profile pic - as if I was connected to fb. Which I´m not.

And a minute ago I logged in to fb to check if i was logged in via fb on Spotify, it said I was so I clicked "remove" and restarted Spotify - still no "remove" option when hovering over the picture?

[user-removed · Accepted solution]

You can change your Spotify profile picture whenever you want. You need to download the computer version of spotify.

1. Hover the cursor over your existing profile picture and click Change.
2. Select the picture you want to use (must be .jpeg, with a maximum file size of 4 MB).

Note: Make sure your picture doesn’t violate any copyright, trademark, or personal image rights. For more information, check out our playlist image guidelines. 

To remove the picture

1. Hover your cursor over your existing profile picture and click Change.
2. Click Remove. 

NOT SEEING THE OPTION TO REMOVE?

If you connected your Spotify account to Facebook, your default profile picture will be your Facebook profile picture. You can either follow the steps above to change your profile picture, or disconnect from Facebook to remove it entirely:

1. in the top-right corner of the desktop app, click   > Settings. 
2. Under Social, click DISCONNECT FROM FACEBOOK. 

The changes will reflect on your account soon.


Note: If you created your account with Facebook, it’s not possible to remove your Facebook picture. For more information, check out I want to use Spotify without Facebook.

[sydney35]

Spotify changed my profile picture without my permission and has greyed out the option to remove the photo, so they seem to take liberties with this.

Very creepy, as the photo added to my account is from 10 years ago, not used on any of my social media, and none of my social accounts are connected to my Spotify account.