Does Spotify Show Who Viewed Your Profile?

Can someone see if you view their Spotify profile?

No. Opening someone's profile, scrolling their public playlists or searching their name leaves no record they can see, on the mobile app, the desktop app or the web player.

Following is the exception. Once you follow someone, you appear in their followers list, which Spotify lets every user open from their own profile (Spotify's follow help page).

See also: how to view a Spotify profile anonymously, and how to view a Spotify profile by name when you don't know the username. You can also find and search any Spotify profile with a username search.

Why Spotify has no profile views

The feature doesn't exist. Spotify's privacy and social controls cover listening activity, recently played artists, follower lists, playlists and blocked users, and none of them mention profile visits. The Spotify Web API has no profile-visit data either, so no outside app can get it.

Apple Music works the same way: profile views are just as invisible there.

What other people can see on your profile

Spotify's help page lists the follower lists, Listening activity and Recently played artists settings as on by default for users 18 and over, and off for younger users. Nobody can see your full listening history, top tracks, private playlists or your Spotify taste profile.

Since January 2026 your current song can also show to friends in Messages on mobile (Spotify newsroom). Full breakdown: who can see what you listen to on Spotify.

What Spotify shows you instead

• Who follows you. Here's how to view your Spotify followers. Spotify won't alert you when someone follows you, and you can remove a follower on Spotify on mobile.
• No playlist listener list. Owners can't see who played or opened a playlist. Details in the Spotify playlist viewer guide and whether you can see who listens to your Spotify playlist.
• Your own recommendations. Your listening shapes personalized playlists like Discover Weekly and Daily Mix. A Private Session keeps a session out of them.

Can artists see who views their profile?

No. Spotify for Artists gives musicians totals and charts, not names. Spotify's listener and follower stats page says artists can see their follower total but not the names of individual followers.

See also: what artists can see about their listeners on Spotify, and how to claim your Spotify artist profile.

How to limit what people see

On mobile, these settings are under your profile picture, then Settings and privacy, then Privacy and social.

1. Turn off Listening activity so followers and friends stop seeing your current song.
2. Turn off Recently played artists to clear that list from your profile.
3. Hide playlists: open a playlist, tap the three dots, then Make private or Remove from profile. If one won't hide or show, see playlist not showing on your Spotify profile.
4. Use a Private Session for one-off listening. It hides what you play for 6 hours or until you restart Spotify (Spotify help). Steps in Private Session mode.
5. Block someone from the three dots on their profile. Blocked users can't see your profile or your listening activity.

Every setting in one place: how to make your Spotify profile private.

Apps that claim to show profile visitors

They can't deliver, because Spotify doesn't record the data. Don't enter your Spotify password on any site that promises a visitor list. If you already connected one, remove it on your Spotify account apps page and change your password.

For gaming profiles, our sister site Gaming Profile Viewer does the same job.