Mini Guide: How to block an artist on Spotify mobile (Apple)

Jess Schalz

2 min readSep 8, 2024

The “Mini Guide” series provides instructions for simple tasks the author frequently forgets how to do.

Goal: Block an artist on the Spotify mobile app

System requirements

iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV
Spotify app (Apple)

Repeating pattern of mobile phones with different Spotify pages

Instructions

1. Go to an artist’s page.

I’m using Chris Brown as an example.

Screenshot of the Spotify mobile app’s artist page for Chris Brown

2. Click the ellipses (“…”).

The “…” button brings up a menu with more options to interact with the artist page.

Screenshot of the “more” pop-up menu on Spotify mobile app’s artist page for Chris Brown

3. In the pop-up menu, click “Don’t play this artist”.

Spotify provides a notification at the bottom of the page: “Ok, we won’t play music from this artist again.”

The page now has a “no” symbol instead of a “Follow” button under the artist’s name.

Screenshot of the Spotify mobile app’s artist page for Chris Brown with a “no” symbol instead of a “Follow” button

About the Author

Jess Schalz (she/they) is a software engineer-turned-technical writer. She has a terrible cat named Sudo, and the two of them live in Minneapolis, MN.