Click on the drop down and change the behavior to No.Īfter that, Spotify won’t load itself every time you turn on your computer. You will find the option ‘Open Spotify automatically when you log on to your computer’. Step 5: Navigate to the ‘Startup and Window Behavior’ heading.

Step 4: This option will open several other Spotify options. Step 3: Scroll down to the bottom and select Show Advanced Settings. Alternatively, you can also use Command +, the keyboard shortcut on Mac to open Spotify Settings. But you do see a button that says “Show Advanced Settings.” Click that.Step 2: You can select the dropdown next to the profile icon and go to Settings. You don’t see anything about startup up automatically at login. So why was it launching at login? I decided to look at Spotify’s settings. So, Spotify wasn’t set as a Login Item– not in System Preferences / Users & Groups /Login Items, and not in the Dock. So, it was not surprising to find that clicking and holding on Spotify in the Dock did not reveal an accidental “Open at Login.” Still, I thought it was worth investigating. If you uncheck “Open at Login” via the Dock you’ll remove it from the Login Items in System Preferences also. If you choose “Open at Login” that way, you’ll see the item in the Login Items in System Preferences too. The Dock’s “Open at Login” option (click on the item in the Dock, hold the button down, slide up to Options, slide over to “Open at Login”) is connected to the Login Items list. The way to prevent something from running at login is to click on it in the list of Login Items, and then click the “minus” down below. The app will run, but will be hidden (as if you hid it yourself using the application’s own menu). Note: checking the “Hide” box will seems like the right thing to do, but that won’t prevent an app from running at login.

Yet Spotify was launching every time I restarted the Mac.

I didn’t remember putting Spotify into the Login Items list, and it turns out I didn’t! Look it over– Spotify is not in the list.

Spotify opens on startup mac