Plan

Premium

Device

Pixel 7

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

Why is it that deleting a 1300+ song playlist from my phone does not release any of the storage?  It was roughly 7GB of data that is now unrecoverable by my device.  Everything I find in the community is either the completely unacceptable suggestion to uninstall and reinstall everything (requiring me to redownload another 19GB of playlists), or an equally bad explanation that Spotify just continues to hold this storage hostage and leverage it for other purposes.  Spotify does not need 7GB of space to sit on "just in case."  People's phone storage is valuable now that almost no manufacturers include memory expansion capabilities on their devices.  Please finally address this; it's been this way for years and years.

UPDATE:  Apparently Spotify was actually holding 16 GB of storage hostage on my phone.  I deleted everything and started fresh.  I redownloaded all of the exact playlists I had saved before.  Imagine my shock when what was once displayed on my phone as 19GB of data is now only 10GB (download quality wasn't changed).  Who knows how long Spotify was eating up that extra 9GB, and later an additional 7GB from the above described scenario.  This is in absolutely no way an acceptable practice for an app developed by a company that is currently worth $62.23 billion USD.  A simple "resync downloaded content" button that actually purges unneeded storage would resolve all of this