We’ve all done it – went to save an album or playlist to our library, download it, or share it, and accidentally tapped the ‘Add to Queue’ option instead, suddenly meaning that whatever we were listening to is soon to be interrupted by a whole long list of music we never intended to listen to. Maybe you’ve simply added the same song(s) to your queue more than once, have changed your mind about what you’ve added, or have a queue from yesterday still lined up for today’s listening.
Whatever your reasoning, it’s helpful to know how to clear a Spotify queue (or indeed to remove individual/multiple songs from it at a time). To do so, just follow the tutorials below, and for more information, see the FAQs at the end of this article.
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How to clear the Spotify queue on the Desktop app
- Open up the Spotify app on your computer, and if prompted sign in
- To practice, create a queue of a few songs or more (unless you already have one you need rid of), by right clicking on the song(s) and clicking ‘Add to Queue’
- Next, access your unwanted queue by clicking the three horizontal dots ‘Queue’ symbol in the bottom-right of the app
- You’ll be taken to your ‘Play Queue’ and will see your ‘Next in Queue’ below the name of the song currently playing. To clear it of all queued songs, simply click the big ‘Clear’ button to the right.
How to remove specific songs from the Spotify queue on the Desktop app
- Open up the Spotify app on your computer, and if prompted sign in
- To practice, create a queue of a few songs or more (unless you already have one you need rid of), by right clicking on the song(s) and clicking ‘Add to Queue’
- Next, access your unwanted queue by clicking the three horizontal dots ‘Queue’ symbol in the bottom-right of the app
- Locate the song(s) you wish to remove from your queue, and right-click on them. From the pop-up menu, select ‘Remove from Queue’
Note: If the songs you wish to remove are stacked one atop the other, you can remove multiple songs at once, by clicking on the first song and then selecting more by holding CTRL and pressing the down or up arrows on your keyboard until you’ve made your selection. Then simply follow step 4 above.
How to clear the Spotify queue on the mobile app
- Open up the Spotify app on your mobile/tablet, and if prompted sign in
- To practice, create a queue of a few songs or more (unless you already have one you need rid of), by tapping the three vertical dots to the right of the song(s) and selecting ‘Add to Queue’
- Next, access your unwanted queue by tapping on the song currently playing at the bottom of the app, and then tapping the three horizontal bars ‘queue’ icon in the bottom-right of your screen
- You’ll see your queue under the heading ‘Next in Queue’, beside which is a ‘Clear Queue’ button. Tap this to clear your Spotify queue.
How to remove specific songs from the Spotify queue on the mobile app
- Open up the Spotify app on your mobile/tablet, and if prompted sign in
- To practice, create a queue of a few songs or more (unless you already have one you need rid of), by tapping the three vertical dots to the right of the song(s) and selecting ‘Add to Queue’
- Next, access your unwanted queue by tapping on the song currently playing at the bottom of the app, and then tapping the three horizontal bars ‘queue’ icon in the bottom-right of your screen
- Now select each of the specific songs you wish to remove from the queue by tapping the blank circle to the left of their titles – this ‘selects’ them.
- Once you’ve made your selection, tap ‘Remove’ in the bottom-left of the screen.
And there you have it! Whether on the Desktop or Mobile app, and whether you want to fully clear your Spotify queue or just remove specific songs from it, you can do so by just following these easy steps. For more info, see the FAQs below.
Frequently asked questions
What is Spotify?
Spotify is the world’s largest and most popular streaming service for music, though it also caters to podcast listeners, too. Available as an app for the PC, Apple, and Android mobile phones and tablets, it attracts millions and millions of unique users every day, from all around the world.
What is the Spotify queue?
When you’re listening to your music in the Spotify app, you can literally ‘queue’ up one or more songs, regardless of whether you’re in the middle of listening to an individual song, album, or playlist. These queued songs will be the next songs played after the one you’re listening to, and Spotify will continue to play through the queue in the chronological order they were added, until there are no more songs queued, at which point it will return to playing from whatever album or playlist you were listening to before. (Note: you can alter the running order of your queue by clicking or tapping on the song and dragging and dropping it to your desired position in the queue)
Can I recover an accidentally deleted queue?
No, unfortunately not. Once you’ve removed a song from your queue, or cleared it altogether, the only way to get it back is to start queueing those songs all over again.
If I close the Spotify app is my queue automatically cleared?
No. If you close the app, typically Spotify will remember what you have in your queue, meaning that next time you open it up and begin playing something, Spotify will begin playing from your queue once that first song is over.
