Overview
- Spotify began rolling the new
- Kids & Family
- exclusion setting globally in a staggered rollout starting around Tuesday, September 15, 2026, and the option is reaching users at different times on different devices.
- The switch is available to both Free and Premium accounts and, when turned off, prevents tracks tagged as "Kids & Family" from influencing Discover Weekly, Daily Mixes and Spotify Wrapped.
- Spotify says the change is retroactive: plays that were already logged in the Kids & Family category will be removed from a user’s taste profile and personalization can take up to 48 hours to reflect.
- Users can still search for, play and save children’s music after enabling the setting; the only change is that those plays stop counting toward the account’s personalized recommendations.
- The new persistent option replaces the manual Private Session workaround that parents used to avoid skewed suggestions and should make year-end recaps and daily mixes better match adult listening habits.