How to Clear Your Spotify Queue: Quick Step-by-Step Tutorial

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Easily clear out your Spotify queue after following these steps
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Have you added songs to your Spotify queue but can't figure out how to remove them? Or perhaps your mood has changed and you want to clear out everything you've queued up and listen to something else. In this article, we'll teach you how to clear all or some of the songs in your Spotify queue on the mobile app, desktop app, and web player.

Quick Steps to Empty Your Spotify Queue

  1. Tap the "Now Playing" bar, or the album art in the side menu on a tablet (if using the mobile app).
  2. Tap or click the Play Queue button at the bottom-right.
  3. Tap or click the Clear Queue button to remove all songs from your queue.
  4. To remove individual songs, tap the circle (on mobile) or right-click (desktop/web) and select Remove .
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Mobile App

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    On the tablet version of the mobile app, tap the album artwork in the side menu instead. [1]
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    The icon looks like 3 horizontal lines, with the top line being thicker than the bottom two.
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    It's next to the "Next in Queue" header.
    • Note that this button will only show up if you have manually added songs to your queue. If you're listening to a playlist , the Clear Queue button will not show.
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    You can do this to songs added to your queue manually, or songs in your queue because you're listening to a playlist.
    • Tap Remove at the bottom of the screen to remove the songs from your queue.
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Desktop App & Web Player

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    • Note that this button will only show up if you have manually added songs to your queue. If you're listening to a playlist , the Clear Queue button will not show.
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    You can do this to songs added to your queue manually, or songs in your queue because you're listening to a playlist. Note that you must manually repeat this for every song you want to remove from your queue.
    • Click Remove from queue in the contextual menu to remove the song.
    • On Mac, press Ctrl and click to perform a right click.
    • Alternatively, you can click the three-dot menu next to the song in your queue to bring up the contextual menu.
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      1. ↑ https://support.spotify.com/us/article/play-queue

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