Spotify is rolling out the ability to create playlist folders and move playlists into them directly from the mobile app, something users have been asking for years.
Users on the r/truespotify subreddit started reporting the feature going live in the last day or so, with screenshots showing a new “Folder” option inside the app’s playlist creation menu. If you’ve used the feature on the desktop app or the web, you already know how useful it is for decluttering a packed library, especially when AI-generated or prompted playlists keep piling up.
The best part is that you can play all the playlists inside a folder at once and hit shuffle.
The rollout doesn’t come as a surprising though. Earlier this year, Android Authority spotted folder-related code inside the app back in March, pointing to exactly this kind of functionality. It’s been a desktop-only feature for years, and the mobile gap always felt like a strange omission.
We can also confirm the feature is now showing up on both Android and iOS, so it’s not limited to one platform. That said, the rollout is clearly not universal yet.
Plenty of users say they still don’t see it. One commenter said they were waiting for it to hit their iPhone “in ~2035.” Germany, France, the UK, and Australia are among the regions where people report it hasn’t appeared. A user in Slovakia posted screenshots showing the feature live there, and users in the US are seeing a mixed picture too, some have it, some don’t.
Spotify hasn’t made any official announcement about the rollout. The official help document still says that you need a web browser or the desktop app to create playlist folders.
There are some gaps people are already pointing out. Folders don’t have custom covers, which looks a bit bare next to everything else in the library. You also can’t add albums to a folder, only playlists. Whether Spotify plans to address either of those isn’t clear.
Still, the core ask was always just to have folders on mobile, and that’s now starting to happen. For people managing dozens of playlists on their phone, that alone is a meaningful change.
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