How to Hide or Unhide a Song on Spotify

Spotify has grown to become one of the world’s most popular music streaming services, with users enjoying listening to, creating, and sharing music on the platform.

We all have our reasons for keeping music hidden on Spotify. It can be difficult to recover from your first major heartbreak.

Other times, it recalls unpleasant events that occurred in our lives while the music was playing in the background.

Here’s everything you need to know about unhiding or hiding music tracks on Spotify in simple steps.

How to Hide a Song on Spotify

Users can create their charts, playlists, and personal mixes on Spotify.

Spotify may occasionally include music you dislike in the list, which may cause issues for listeners while it is playing.

To get around this problem, Spotify created a feature that allows you to hide any music you don’t like.

Here’s how to hide Spotify songs on Android and iOS as a workaround.

There is an easy method for hiding tracks in the Spotify app. To begin, locate the music by using the app’s search function or by browsing the playlist.

Then, next to the song’s name, click the three dots icon to see more options.

Then, select Hide song. If you’ve successfully hidden a song, it will be greyed out and have a red button next to it.

How to Unhide a Song on Spotify

When you hide a song, it will never appear on your list and will be unavailable to play.

Spotify algorithms have not only hidden the song, but they have also deduced that you do not like that genre of music.

So it will not suggest tracks that are similar to the ones you have hidden. If you unintentionally hit the hide button, that music will no longer be visible.

If we want to listen to the hidden track again, there is an option in Spotify to unhide it.

If you accidentally hide the music, the simplest way to unhide it is to press the ‘undo‘ button on the floating window that appears.

It will, however, vanish in a matter of seconds.

Before you can retrieve a hidden Spotify song on iOS or Android, you must first set Spotify to reveal unplayable music.

Unhide a Spotify Song on Android

To do so, go to Home>Settings > Playback in your Spotify app.

In playback, settings toggle on (slide to the right) the Show Unplayable Songs button.

unhide a song on the Spotify android app

After that, navigate to the playlist for the music you’ve hidden.

Scroll down until you find the music you want to unhide, then hit the Hidden option.

The unhidden music will then be automatically played from your playlist.

Unhide a Spotify Song on iOS

Go to Home>Settings > Playback in your Spotify app.

In playback, settings toggle off (slide to the left) the Hide Unplayable Songs button.

Then, go to the playlist for the music you’ve hidden.

Scroll down until you find the music you want to unhide, then select Hidden.

The unhidden music will then be played automatically from your playlist.

Unhide a Spotify Song on the Desktop

Select Settings from the ” v ” arrow by clicking it.

Turn on “Show unavailable songs in playlists” under the Display option.

Return to the playlist and click the “Hide” button once more.

The song has been unhidden and you can listen to it.

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