This means that your recommendations stay accurate and your history remains private.
Why Disable Listening History on Apple Music?
Apple Music lacks a proper incognito toggle to prevent listening activity being recorded.
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Instead, you must use a Focus Mode to prevent tainting your recommendations with unwanted tracks.
Apple Music’s recommendations are tailored to your listening habits and taste profile.
Songs, albums, and artists you’ve listened to appear in Recently Played and on your music profile.
Pausing your listening history in specific situations can ensure your recommendations stay true to your music taste.
Consider the scenario of parents with young children who hand their iPhones to their children from time to time.
Perhaps you feel like exploring a totally niche music genre you’re generally not a fan of.
All of those and similar situations warrant temporarily pausing your listening history.
On a Mac, you’ll find this setting under System tweaks > Focus.
We recommendsetting up a new Focus modesolely dedicated to controlling your listening history.
Don’t forget to resume your listening history after you’re done.
By default, Focus modes are configured separately on each machine.
Maybe your preschooler won’t fall asleep before you play them their favorite .
Hit “Done” when finished.
Wake your iPhone and touch and hold the Lock Screen to enter editing mode.
To use your “Listening History” Focus, simply switch to the corresponding Lock Screen.
On the HomePod and HomePod mini speakers, listening history applies to the Music and Podcasts apps.
And that’s all there’s to it, really!
For example, your profile leaks your listening activity to followers by default.
it’s possible for you to access these tweaks using the Music app.
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