Cleaning my listening history?

[ygingras]

My android phone automatically connected to someone's smart speaker or TV or something and they went on to a few hours of listening before I noticed and disconnected from that device. Now two weeks later my "what's new" and "recently played" views keep showing me latin american artists that I never listened too myself.

I blocked those artists, but they keep showing. What's the best way to clean my history for that day (or just wipe the last month) or really block those artists so they don't show up in my feeds anymore?

[AlejaR · Accepted solution]

Hey there @ygingras ,

Thank you for reaching out here in the Community.

We'd like to add some insights. Take into account that the Listening history consists of the songs that have been listened to on your account and, unfortunately, it's currently not possible to remove or delete items from this section.

In that sense, we'd suggest that you try to discover new music: you can actively explore new music by using Search and choose a category where you'll find a lot of playlists made by Spotify, which you might like. Keep in mind that, if most of the music you listen to comes from your personalized playlists (like Discover Weekly, Daily Mix) the new suggested content won't update as often. Keep using the Do not play this feature on any artist profiles you wouldn't like to see recommended to you.

While there's currently no way to manually delete songs from Recently played history - we'd recommend you leave your vote for this idea here if this is something you'd like to see implemented in the future. The more votes an idea gets, the more likely it is to get implemented. If you're interested in how ideas work and how your feedback reaches the right teams here, check this page out.

Lastly, since you mentioned the playback was coming from a device you did not recognize, we'd suggest you follow the steps of this article to secure your account. Make sure to remove any third-party apps with access to your Spotify as they may have become compromised. You can grant access to them again if you want.

Hope this helps. If you need anything else, the Community is here for you.

[ygingras]

Thank you for this information. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the proposal for editing the listening history will make it through at some point.

I don't have any 3rd party apps. Could it be because we are multiple apartments sharing the same internet connections and that there are smart speakers or TVs with the spotify app on the local network?

[Ivelina]

Thanks for returning with this question @ygingras.

Sharing the same internet connection and having multiple devices on the local network with other people living nearby can absolutely be the reason why your phone automatically connects to another device.

With Spotify Connect you can use one device to remotely control listening on another and they need to be on the same network. 

Great job for already checking that you don't have any 3rd party apps and if you've already followed the steps to secure your account as suggested by @AlejaR in this response, you can tap on the unknown device that your phone connects to, click on "Forget this device", log out everywhere and check if the device will appear afterwards.

Keep in mind that if you’ve ever used Spotify on a shared network, you may see other devices in the picker that were connected to that network too. You can have only local devices shown by heading to the Spotify App on your mobile device > open Settings > Devices > Show Local Devices. 

Hope this info helps clear things up and we're here if you've got any other questions 🙂