Spotify has been offering Spotify Premium users the ability to listen to music offline for more than a decade. usual, Spotify would require a stable Wi-Fi or mobile data internet connection to function. Spotify integrated an offline mode so Spotify Premium subscribers could continue to listen to their music on the go, even when a stable internet connection was not necessarily reachable. For example, there is not always an internet connection available when you take a long flight or go into the wilderness.
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THE SHORT ANSWER
If you want to listen to music on Spotify offline, you need to enable offline mode. After download your music to your mobile device on Spotifygo to Settings on Spotify. below PlayPress Offline mode to enable offline mode.
To listen to music offline in the Spotify desktop app, open the menu in the top left corner by clicking the ᐧᐧᐧ button above Home, Search and Your Library. Move your cursor over File and click Offline mode to enable offline mode.
IMPORTANT SECTIONS
How to listen to Spotify offline
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After your desired content has been downloaded, you can then enable “offline mode”. Offline mode ensures that you can only listen to content that you have downloaded to your device; however, you can listen even if you can’t connect to the Internet.
When a user terminates their Spotify Premium subscription, they lose all Spotify cache files downloaded to their device.
Spotify doesn’t let users stay in offline mode all the time. Many ask what happens if a Spotify Premium subscription ends when the app is in offline mode. The Spotify app must connect to the Internet at least once every 30 days. If Spotify does not reconnect within that time, the user will lose access to all downloaded music and podcasts.
How to enable offline mode on Spotify
How to use offline mode on Android and iOS
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To enable offline mode in Spotify Android and iOS app:
- Open the Spotify mobile app and go to Settings by pressing the gear-shaped button in the top right corner of the House screen.
- Scroll down to the highlighted section Play.
- Press Offline mode to enable offline mode.
How to use offline mode on desktop
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To enable offline mode in the Spotify desktop app:
- Open the Spotify desktop app and open the menu in the top left corner by clicking the ᐧᐧᐧ button above House, To searchand Your library.
- Move your cursor over File.
- Click Offline mode to enable offline mode.
How to set Spotify to use Wi-Fi only
Spotify currently doesn’t have a feature built into the app that completely disables mobile data streaming. If you leave Wi-Fi range and have a mobile data plan, Spotify will switch automatically.
You can enable Data Saving in Settings to reduce the data used when streaming over mobile data.
Disable mobile data streaming for Spotify in your device settings
Your best option is to close the Spotify app and go to your phone’s settings. Find Apps and notifications if you are an android user.
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Inside Apps and notificationsnavigate to and select Spotify. Select Mobile data and Wi-Fi.
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Here you can disable Background information, Unlimited data usage, Wi-Fior Data usage in general.
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For iOS users, they should go to: Settings > Mobile data and from there select the app they want to disable data access for.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. However, you must be a Spotify Premium subscriber and have downloaded all the songs you want to listen to offline on your device. After checking both boxes, you can enable offline mode in the Spotify mobile or desktop app.
Spotify Free users can download podcasts. However, the offline mode is a feature only available to Spotify Premium users, so Spotify Free users cannot listen to their downloaded content in the offline mode.
Yes, if you are a Spotify Premium subscriber. You need to open the Spotify app on your Apple Watch and then navigate to whatever you want to download. Select that piece of content by pressing the ᐧᐧᐧ button and then Download to Apple Watch. Once downloaded, there will be a small green arrow next to the name of that particular piece of content.
Open the Spotify mobile app. Of the House screen, tap Settings > scroll down until you see Other. Select in Other Storage. This shows you where your music data is stored.