How to Turn On/Off Explicit Contents for Spotify Music

For keen music fans, there's a time that you encountered an explicit content on Spotify. For parents, it's essential to consider blocking explicit contents considered offensive or unsuitable for family member. No worries. We've found how to turn on and off Spotify explicit content on multiple devices like iPhone, iPad, Windows and Mac.

But before you set out to turn on or off explicit contents on Spotify, there're more things you need to know.

Part 1. Explicit Content on Spotify - What You Need to Know

Explicit Content - What Is It?

The song includes these things will be deemed as Explicit content:

Spotify Explicit Content - What Is It?

Spotify includes explicit content on all their platforms, including Spotify app for desktop and mobile and Spotify Web Player. Because Spotify offers it how the Spotify artist intends it to be heard.

The explicit contents on Spotify will be tagged for EXPLICT or E on any releases. This is how an explicit song looks like on Spotify desktop and mobile app.

However, not all explicit contents are tagged because it depends on information Spotify get from rights-holders. But still, you're able to allow or block the most of explicit contents on Spotify because Spotify allows both Premium and Free users to do so in the Settings of the app. Keep reading.

Spotify Explicit Content - What You Need

To access settings for explicit content, you'll need to ensure the current device is picked to consume Spotify contents and Spotify Connect is disabled. Or you will find the Explicit content in the settings of the Spotify mobile app is not available (grayed out) like this:

How to pick mobile device to consume explicit content:

Step 1. On either Android or iPhone device, open the Spotify app.

Step 2. Tap the Gear icon (Settings) in the upper right corner.

Step 3. Scroll to Devices.

Step 4. Tap Devices menu.

Step 5. Ensure your mobile device [This iPhone] (or similar) is picked as Current device. Or from here to select [This iPhone] under the "Select a device" list that shows all available devices.

How to pick desktop device to consume explicit content:

Step 1. On either Windows or Mac device, open the Spotify app.

Step 2. Stream something on Spotify.

Step 3. Go into the content's Now Playing at bottom.

Step 4. Click the Connect device icon in the bottom-right.

Step 5. Ensure your computer device [This computer] is picked as Current device. Or from here to select [This computer] to consume Spotify contents.

Now you have the ability to turn on or off explicit content on Spotify.

Part 2. How to Allow Explicit Contents on Spotify

Pick either computer or mobile device to see how you can allow anything with explicit tags on Spotify.

How to turn on explicit content on Spotify mobile app:

Step 1. On either Android or iOS, open the Spotify app.

Step 2. Tap the Gear icon (Settings) in the upper right corner.

Step 3. Scroll to Explicit Content.

Please Note: If you find the Explicit Content setting is grayed out, please go to Part 1 to ensure your mobile device is selected as the current device to consume Spotify contents.

Step 4. Ensure the "Allow explicit content" option is enabled. If it's off, please switch on the toggle to the right of it.

How to turn on explicit content on Spotify desktop app:

Step 1. On either Windows or Mac, open the Spotify app.

Step 2. Click the Chevron down icon (Your Profile) > Settings. You can also open the 3 dots menu > Edit > Preferences to open up Settings.

Step 3. In Settings, scroll to Explicit content > Allow playback of explicit-rated content.

Step 4. Ensure the "Allow playback of explicit-rated content" option is enabled. If it's off, please switch it back on.

Extra Tip: How to turn on explicit content on Premium Family

If you manage a Premium Family plan, you can allow all Spotify explicit contents for other members of the plan.

Step 1. Use a browser to visit this Premium Family page to log in. Or you can open Your Account Overview and go to this Premium Family page in the side menu.

Step 2. Click on the member you'd like to filter content for.

Step 3. Switch Remove explicit content on.

Part 3. How to Block Explicit Contents on Spotify

Pick either computer or mobile device to see how you can block anything with explicit tags on Spotify.

How to turn off explicit content on Spotify mobile app:

Step 1. On either Android or iOS, open the Spotify app.

Step 2. Tap the Gear icon (Settings) in the upper right corner.

Step 3. Scroll to Explicit Content.

Step 4. Switch off the toggle to the right of the "Allow explicit content" option.

How to turn off explicit content on Spotify desktop app:

Step 1. On either Windows or Mac, open the Spotify app.

Step 2. Click the Chevron down icon (Your Profile) > Settings. You can also open the 3 dots menu > Edit > Preferences to open up Settings.

Step 3. In Settings, scroll to Explicit content > Allow playback of explicit-rated content.

Step 4. Switch off the toggle to the right of the "Allow playback of explicit-rated content" option.

Step 5. If you are streaming an explicit content at this time, Spotify will skip it for you immediately and sends a message, saying "Spotify can't play this right now because it contains explicit content".

When you're going into any related content on Spotify, such as album, playlist, artist or genre to reach for other songs, you will find out anything with an Explicit tag is grayed out. You won't be able to play it. And if you are going through a playlist or a radio station, it's automatically skipped.

Extra Tip: How to turn off explicit content on Premium Family

If you manage a Premium Family Family plan, you can also block all Spotify explicit contents for other members of the plan.

Step 1. Use a browser to visit Premium Family page to log in. Or you can open Your Account Overview and go to this Premium Family page in the side menu.

Step 2. Click on the member you'd like to filter content for.

Step 3. Switch Remove explicit content off.

Part 4. How to Find Clean Versions of Spotify Contents

You can always check for clean versions of anything with an explicit tag. However, not all explicit releases have a clean version.

How to find clean versions of explicit content on Spotify mobile app:

Step 1. On Windows or Mac, open the Spotify app.

Step 2. Go to the album that includes the song with an explicit content tag. You can select Search in the side menu and enter the song title in the search field. Select Albums in the top menu to find the album you want.

Step 3. Scroll to the bottom of the track listing to find more releases of the same album in the bottom right. But if you don't see this option, there're no other versions of the album on Spotify. You can also search a song title to find any versions without explicit tags.

How to find clean versions of explicit content on Spotify desktop app:

Step 1. On iOS or Android, open the Spotify app.

Step 2. Go to Search.

Step 3. In the search field, enter the song title to find any versions without explicit tags.

Part 5. How to Keep Spotify Explicit Contents Forever

Both Spotify Premium and Free users have more choices to keep your favorite Spotify explicit contents on a safer place like Google Drive, One Drive and even the most-common USB drive. All you need is a powerful tool like ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, which helps ensure the full access of the DRM-free files of the Spotify explicit contents.

With ViWizard Spotify Music Converter, Spotify desktop application users can download and convert Spotify explicit contents into 6 supported audio file formats: MP3, M4A, M4B, WAV, AAC and FLAC. After that, you are able to keep the downloaded Spotify explicit contents on your computer device forever.