How to Delete a Playlist on Spotify 

Grace

January 14, 2025

Spotify offers a massive music library with millions of songs and podcasts across every genre. To personalize your listening experience, creating playlists for different moods and activities is a great way. However, with so much music at your fingertips, your library can become cluttered with old or unwanted playlists. This guide shows you how to manage your Spotify library by deleting your own playlists or removing playlists created by others.

Contents

• Deleting vs. Removing Playlists on Spotify
• How to Delete a Spotify Playlist on Mobile Devices
• How to Delete a Spotify Playlist on Desktop
• How to Recover Deleted Playlists on Spotify
• How to Keep Spotify Songs after Deleting a Playlist

Deleting vs. Removing Playlists on Spotify

Spotify offers two ways to manage playlists in your library:

• Delete: This deletes playlists you created from your account. However, you can recover them within a certain timeframe through your account settings.
• Remove: This action is for playlists curated by Spotify or other users. It removes them from your library but doesn’t affect the original playlist. You can always add them back to your library if they’re not deleted by the creators.

How to Delete a Spotify Playlist on Mobile Devices

Delete a Spotify Playlist You Created

1. Launch the Spotify app on your phone or tablet.
2. Go to the playlist you want to delete and tap the three dots under the playlist name.
3. Select “Delete Playlist”.
4. Tap “DELETE’ to confirm the deletion.

Remove a Playlist Made by Spotify or Others

You cannot delete playlists created by Spotify or other users in your Library such as “Top Tracks of the Year” and “Today’s Top Hits”. You can only remove them from your Library and these playlists are still available for the original creators and followers.

To remove a playlist, select the playlist in Your Library and use either of the two ways below:

• Method 1. Tap on the Check Mark icon to remove the playlist from your Library.
• Method 2. Tap the three dots and select “Remove from Your Library“.

How to Delete a Spotify Playlist on Desktop

Deleting or removing a Spotify playlist on the Spotify web player or the desktop app is similar to that on mobile.

Delete a Spotify Playlist Made by You

1. Sign in to your account at spotify.com or launch the Spotify desktop app on your Mac or Windows computer.
2. Go to “Your Library” and find the playlist you want to delete.
3. Click the three dots and select “Delete“.
4. Select “Delete” again to confirm.

Remove a Playlist Created by Spotify or Other User

1. Visit spotify.com or open the Spotify desktop app on your Mac or Windows computer. Sign into your account.
2. Use the following two ways to remove a playlist created by Spotify or other users:
   • Method 1. Click the green Check Mark icon under the playlist name.
   • Method 2. Click the three dots and select “Remove from Your Library“.

How to Recover Deleted Playlists on Spotify

Deleted a playlist by mistake? Spotify lets you recover playlists you created within the last 90 days. Here’s how to get it back:

1. Log in to your Spotify account page(spotify.com/account).
2. Click “Recover playlists” under Account.

3. Click Restore by the playlist you want to recover.
4. Open Spotify and find the restored playlist at the bottom of your playlist collection.

To restore a playlist made by Spotify or other users, just search the playlist by its name, and tap or click the Plus icon to add it to your Library.

How to Keep Spotify Songs after Deleting a Playlist?

Spotify keeps all your playlists and downloads in your Spotify Library. If you want to have a neat library by deleting unnecessary playlists while keeping the playlist songs on your device, you can try a smart Spotify music downloader — Pazu Spotify Converter.

Pazu Spotify Converter works for both Spotify Free and Premium users, allowing you to download songs, playlists, and albums for offline listening. It efficiently extracts Spotify music and converts it into various formats you can save on your device. With downloaded songs, you can:

• Keep your favorite music even after deleting playlists from Spotify.
• Access your music offline without needing a Spotify subscription (downloaded songs are yours to keep).
• Transfer them to any other compatible devices for added convenience.

Key features of Pazu Spotify Converter:

• Download Spotify songs, albums, playlists, and podcasts with either Spotify’s free or premium account.
• Built-in Spotify web player, no Spotify app needed.
• Download Spotify to MP3 in 320kbps.
• Multiple output formats: MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, and AIFF.
• Keep all ID3 tags.
• Rename Spotify songs with titles, albums, artists, etc.
• Archive downloaded songs by album or artist.
• Multilingual interface.

Now, let’s learn how to use Pazu Spotify Music Converter to download and convert Spotify songs with a free subscription from the following tutorial.

1. Run Pazu Spotify Converter

Download, install, and run Pazu Spotify Converter on your Mac or Windows. Log in to your Spotify account with the built-in web player.

2. Choose the output format

Click the gear icon on the top right corner. Here you can select the output format (AUTO(M4A)/MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV/AIFF), choose output audio quality, customize the output path, organize the output files in various ways, rename output files, and more.

3. Select Spotify music

Use the integrated Spotify web player to search the songs, albums, playlists,s or podcasts you want to download. Click the Add to List button to load all songs in the album or playlist, and uncheck the songs you don’t want to download if there are any.

4. Download and Convert Spotify Songs to Local

Click the Convert button to start downloading the Spotify songs to your local computer.

Once the conversion is done, you can find your Spotify songs downloaded as local files by clicking the below folder button or directly going to the output folder you customized in the previous step.

Note: The free trial version of Pazu Spotify Converter enables you to convert the first three minutes of each song. You can remove the trial limitation by purchasing the full version.