Continue to play Liked Songs Alphabetically after closing and reopening the app on iPhone

[kylegoodin]

Premium Family

Premium

USA

iPhone 13 Pro Max

iOS 15.6.1

I play my liked songs alphabetically A-Z. If I close out of the app on my iPhone, when I get back on the app and play music again, it will remember the last song I was playing, and a fairly accurate timestamp of when I stopped playing that song.

However, when the song ends, the next song that it plays will not be the next song alphabetically in my liked songs, it will be some other random song from my liked songs. But I have noticed that after it plays the random song, the songs it plays after that are songs that were added immediately before. So it starts playing my liked songs sorted by Recently Added, instead of sorting it by Title like I was doing before I closed the app.

Which means any time I close the app, I have to navigate to my Liked Songs, scroll through them all and click on the one that I was playing before I closed the app, in order to get the app to start playing my Liked Songs alphabetically at the same spot I was playing before I closed the app.

Please fix this issue, it has to be such an easy thing to fix, and it would make my user experience, as well as many others, so much better.

To test this: Open Spotify on iPhone, go to Liked Songs, make sure it is sorted by Title, and Shuffle is not on. Click on a song, you can skip a few songs to make sure it is actually playing alphabetically. On iPhone, open the app switcher, and close out of Spotify. Reopen the app. It will remember the song you were playing and a general idea of the timestamp you stopped playing. But if you let the song end, or skip the song, it will not continue to play your Liked Songs in Alphabetical order(sorted by Title).

It would be really great if someone could look into this and at least give me a response. If you've experienced this issue as a user and want it fixed, please comment expressing interest in getting this issue fixed. Thank you so much!

[OscarDC]

Hey @kylegoodin,

Thank you for keeping in contact and for the clarification.

Since the app had an update yesterday, it's possible that the new version may have fixed the issue. To make sure you're on the latest update, we'd recommend performing a clean reinstall of the app by following the steps in this article. This will also delete the damaged cache to ensure that the stored cache is not affecting the app.

Also, include in your next response the new Spotify version you're currently running to continue investigating your case.

We'll be on the lookout. 

[kylegoodin]

Hello,

8.8.12.472
I deleted the app and redownloaded, issue is still not fixed for me. I can upload another screen recording if I need to However, I do appreciate the fact that this issue is still being looked into by the Spotify team!

[Lyubka]

Hey there,

Jumping in here to give you an update about this situation.

Our tech folks are still looking into this, however, we don't currently have an estimated time for a fix, but we hope it will be as soon as possible. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.

We'd also recommend always keeping your Spotify app up to date with the latest version, so you don't miss out any improvements coming your way.

Cheers! 

[HugeEuge20]

I have mine sorted by artist and also just want to listen to my songs in order and am unable. Is there a reason your player is unable to play the liked/downloaded songs in order of how they are filtered? Why does it always revert back to some sort of randomization? When I do get it to work it usually just queues like 30 songs and then stops. I've uninstalled, cleared the cache and turned off all auto play options. It's extremely annoying to pay for a premium service and not be able to perform a basic function. Seems like you have too many specialty functions that are overriding some of the basic ones.

[kylegoodin]

Hello,

I have continued to experience this issue. Once again, I have performed a clean install and am using the most up-to-date version of the app. I have done the same thing on other accounts, and other devices with the same result. I've seen multiple posts in the community reporting this issue and asking for a fix, but have not seen a suggested solution on any of the posts that resolves the issue for me. I understand it is not a devastating issue and doesn't affect the majority of Spotify users, but would really improve my experience if this issue was resolved. Any update would be appreciated, thank you!

[M8rodrig]

I'm having this same issue in the year 2025. Please tell me there is a fix by now

[pson]

You have to be new around here, nothing never get fixed (by purpose). It only get "fixed" when the devs screw something up while adding a future no one has asked for or ever need.

Every post about a issue flies like this one. Some "interested" moderators talking about that someone is looking into it and asking a few follow up questions until the post is of the front page and then radio silence. Maybe if it attracts enough attention of angry people they pop in again with some nonsense answer and lock it or merge it with a post about something completely different so it becomes impossible to make sense of the post.

[M8rodrig]

Yes, I'm new, and my outlook wasn't tainted yet. Thanks for breaking it down for me.

I hope they accidentally fix it soon