- Spotify is reportedly testing a ‘Notes’ feature for direct feedback on recommendations from home
- Instead of just excluding playlists or tracks, you might be able to write notes
- Spotted by Android Authority, as code found in Spotify version 9.1.28.385
There’s no doubt that Spotify’s suite of 2026 updates is strong, with the new ‘About the Song’ upgrade (which provides backstories to the music you love) a recent highlight. And who could forget the new trio of perks for translating lyrics? OK, Apple Music has been delivering something similar since last September, but together they’ll definitely help you better understand Bad Bunny’s relationship with his aunt.
You know what is not necessarily been fantastic in 2026? The reported prevalence of artificial intelligence drops in your Spotify Discover Weekly recommendations. And the thing is, if your Discover Weekly or Home feed is currently starting to go off on an unpleasant tangent, your only recourse is to manually exclude every track and/or playlist from your taste profile, or actively listen to different music to try to coax it back on track—and even that feature wasn’t released until October 2025.
But Spotify may soon give you one lot more control over how you steer the algorithm to your advantage. How? By giving you the chance to provide written feedback and (hopefully) communicate directly with its AI learning models – yes, the equivalent of giving a written prompt to ChatGPT or Gemini.
Right now, your Spotify taste profile is based directly on what you listen to and how you listen, even if some of it wasn’t what you actively wanted to hear (but you couldn’t be bothered to dig out your phone and manually skip the track).
This is then taken and used to build your Discover Weekly playlist and create these wrapped and shuffled summaries. If something distorts these recommendations – e.g. a bedtime playlist for your toddler or lofi hip-hop for you to help you catch some z’s when they’ve finally disappeared – you can exclude them from your taste profile, but for now it’s all a little sketchy.
Does it know me that well?
The main limitation to all of this is that right now you can only tell Spotify “no thanks” regarding certain tracks; you can’t directly provide notes about what you actually prefer – or why you think this song is AI-generated (and as a musician you don’t like it), says.
In Spotify version 9.1.28.385, Android Authority has discovered code strings that mention a new and unreleased Notes feature linked to your taste profile.
As Android Authority reports, “The feature appears to allow you to add written feedback that helps ‘influence what you see on Home.'” One string reads, ‘Tell us more about you,’ while another clarifies, ‘Your notes help influence what you see on Home.’ There’s even an example of a placeholder text, “I’ve been listening to a lot of…” that hints at the kind of free input Spotify might be aiming for.”
The report also claims that based on these strings, you should be able to edit, add and/or delete previous notes associated with your taste profile – although Spotify appears to put limits on the number of notes you can create and the number of grades per tone (so no long rants about early noughties folk rock? Okay).
Obviously, the upgrade is still being tested, but if it hits the market (ie to all Spotify Premium subscribers), it will certainly give us access to a very welcome level of personalized music curation, and unlike many of Spotify’s perks, something no other music streaming service currently has.
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