How To Make Spotify Not Open On Startup Mac?

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Have you ever opened Spotify and found it opening every time you boot your Mac? If yes, then you are going to learn how to disable this feature.

Make Spotify Not Open on Startup Mac

Spotify is the paid; most popular music listening application all over the world. Here you will find all artists' original songs. People like to listen to music on this app with no piracy. Their vast collection also helps people to choose music according to their interests.

Spotify music can be listened to by its application on a different platform. Most of the computer and mobile phone versions have separate applications so listening to music on Spotify on your available device is no problem for mow.

Opening the Spotify app on the startup is useful for those who listen to music often. But who rarely listen to music; don’t like to see the app on the startup. So we will discuss the closing process of Spotify on the startup of Mac.

Making Spotify not open on startup Mac

There are few options you can use to stop Spotify not open on startup Mac. Here, we discussed three-way to stop opening Spotify at the startup of Mac.

Option – 01

  1. First, go to the desktop page.
  2. Then find the Spotify app from recent tabs.
  3. Take the mouse pointer over Spotify App.
  4. After that Right-click the Spotify App.
  5. Then go to “Options”.
  6. After clicking “Options” you can see their few options. Find the “Open at login” option.
  7. If you see a Tick mark beside “Open at login”, Uncheck that option.

Open at login

Option – 02

  1. First, go to the desktop page.
  2. Find the System Preference icon from recent tabs. If you don’t see the System Preference icon, you can find the System Preference option from “Finder”.
  3. Open System Preference.
  4. After opening System Preference, you have to find the “User and Groups” Option. Click “User and Groups”
  5. In the “User and Groups” option, you have to choose your user.
  6. Then you can see two options. First “Password” and Second “Login Items”.
  7. You have to click the “Login Items” option.
    Login item pageOpen at login
  8. In the “Login Items,” you can see all the items open automatically after you log in to your Mac. There you have to find Spotify App.
  9. If you see a Tick mark beside the “Spotify “app, your Spotify app will open automatically after you log in to your Mac. You uncheck the Spotify app.
  10. Sometimes you will find your Tick mark hidden. Then you have to click the bottom left of your page. It will ask you for a password. Then you have to give your system password. It will give you access to uncheck the Spotify app.

Option – 03

If any of these options don’t work, don’t worry, This method will work.

  1. First, go to the desktop page.
  2. Open Spotify app from recent tabs or you can find the Spotify app from “Finder”.
  3. Now click on the “Spotify” option. After clicking “Spotify”, there you can see “Preference”. Enter “Preference”. If you are unable to find the “Spotify” option, just press “Comand+P” on your keyboard. It will open the “Preference” option on your Mac easily.
  4. Now you have to scroll down until the bottom of the page comes. There you will see “SHOW ADVANCED SETTINGS”.
  5. Click on “SHOW ADVANCED SETTINGS”.
  6. Now you have to look for the “Startup and Windows Behaviour” portion.
  7. After finding the “Startup and Windows Behaviour” portion, You will see here the “Minimized” option.
  8. Click on the “Minimized” option.
    3rd Option
  9. Now you will find two options, Yes or No.
  10. Just click “No”.
  11. Scroll down and click on “HIDE ADVANCED SETTINGS”.

Your work will be done after that. So now you can enjoy the Spotify app easily.

Summary: Make Spotify Not Open on Startup Mac

  • Open System Preferences by clicking on the Apple logo in the top left of your Mac's screen, then clicking System Preferences.
  • Click Users & Groups.
  • Click Login Items.
  • Click Spotify in the list of applications that opens at login and then click the "-" symbol at the bottom of the window to remove it from your login items.