# Spotify will stop counting your kid's music as yours

> A new Spotify setting keeps a child's listening out of your recommendations and your Wrapped, and YouTube should copy it.
- Title: Spotify will stop counting your kid's music as yours
- Summary: A new Spotify setting keeps a child's listening out of your recommendations and your Wrapped, and YouTube should copy it. If a kid uses your Spotify, turn on…
- Keywords: spotify, streaming, recommendations, wrapped, parenting, technology, stop, counting, kid's, music, yours, TechRadar
- Source: TechRadar — https://techradar.com/audio/spotify/spotify-is-finally-giving-you-a-button-to-block-kids-music-from-your-recommendations-and-wrapped-now-youtube-needs-to-follow-suit
- Published: 2026-09-15T13:00:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: spotify, streaming, recommendations, wrapped, parenting, technology
## Your algorithm got hijacked
Hand your phone to a kid for one car ride and Spotify learns the wrong lesson. Nursery rhymes and cartoon themes start crowding out the music you actually chose.
## One button fixes it
Spotify is adding a setting that blocks a child's listening from feeding your profile. The plays still happen, they just stop shaping what the app thinks you want.
## Wrapped becomes honest again
The excluded listening is kept out of Wrapped too, so your year in review stops being topped by a song from a kids' show you never picked.
## Built on managed accounts
The control sits alongside Spotify's managed accounts for kids, giving parents a proper place to separate a child's listening from their own.
## Shared logins are normal
Households pass one account around between partners, kids and guests. Streaming services have mostly pretended that does not happen, and the taste profile pays for it.
## Now YouTube's turn
YouTube has the same problem at a bigger scale, where a few kids' videos can bend your homepage for weeks. It needs the same escape hatch.
## Key takeaway

If a kid uses your Spotify, turn on the new exclusion setting so your recommendations and Wrapped reflect what you actually listen to.