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Once enabled , parents can manage the account of young listener on their account by preventing them from watching videos , playing content , or even viewingCanvasvideos — the looping telecasting that accompany music playback — for any capacity that ’s label expressed . In addition , parents will be able to use a new control feature to adjudicate if their small fry can play certain artists or data track . This allows the parent or defender to make more granular decisions about what kind of euphony is available to their baby , without forcing their tween to habituate the more shaver - friendly , but also more restrictive , Spotify Kids app .
The launching followsefforts from other large tech companiesincluding TikTok , Meta , Snap , and YouTube to give parents more control over how their kids use their apps , and what sort of feature kids have access to , drive by increase pressure from regulators to reign in Big Tech . Other banner , like Netflix , Max , and Hulu , among others , also offer parental ascendence to parent .
Though Spotify is not a tv set and motion picture streaming service or a full featuredsocial app , it does have a across-the-board variety of content on its platform , some of which may not be appropriate for younger listeners .
parent who today share an report with their kids may also be prompted to switch to a Family design , as each history under the program will have its own disjoined recommendations . That entail parent ’ melodious tastes wo n’t be mix up with their tweens ’ , and vice versa . This will make Spotify ’s destruction - of - year wrap results more precise , Spotify note .
access code to the new feature is useable to parents from the Accounts page in the app , where they ’re capable to take the option to “ append a listener aged under 13 , ” ( or the food market equivalent ) , then espouse the instructions to pilot the various option .
