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Spotify’s new features allow parents to view children’s play history and prevent them from listening to certain content
- Two new features are being implemented in the Spotify Kids app
- Allow parents to view play history and block specific songs
- Spotify is also launching its kids app to users in Japan and Germany
A new feature in Spotify’s dedicated children’s app allows parents to exercise more control over their children’s listening habits.
The streaming giant says that two new features will now allow parents to view their children’s listening history and also block specific content that they may find objectionable.
To use the new tools, parents who have purchased Spotify Kids can navigate to settings in their own apps and select the ‘Grown Ups’ option.
The Spotify kids app is available on iPhone and Android, but only for people with a Spotify Premium Family subscription
They can then choose which account of children they want to see and see their respective stories, which includes everything that aired in the past three months.
In the same window, they can also block specific tracks so children don’t hear them on their accounts.
Locked songs are tied to specific accounts, meaning parents can choose which songs are allowed for each child in the account separately.
However, it is still unclear exactly how Spotify sees the feature being used, given the fact that Spotify Kids is designed to remove objectionable content to start human healing.
If anything, the feature could be a way for parents to save themselves from songs they find agitating, exaggerating, or both.
Spotify also says that its standalone app for kids, which launched in Canada and France earlier this year, will also expand to Japan and Germany.
Spotify has made it clear that the app is still in beta stages, but it has been slowly expanding its worldwide availability since the service launched exclusively in Ireland last October.
Among the differences between the Spotify kids app and its regular music streaming service are data collection practices.
Unlike the standard Spotify app, the kids version will now select songs and other content based on previous listening data, making it compliant with the rules governing data collection practices.
The experience is also ad-free and costs $ 14.99 per month. Each additional profile added to the account will cost the same amount with up to six profiles allowed.
The songs in the app are not selected by algorithms like other child-focused services offered by major streaming platforms like YouTube, but by real people.
Specifically, experts who have worked with Disney, Discovery Kids, and Nickelodeon are involved in the healing process.
