If you have recently installed the Spotify application to be able to listen to your music from your Mac, it is likely that you have noticed a small detail, and that is When you turn on your computer from scratch, by default Spotify opens (normally minimized) in the dock at the bottom.
If you use this service often, it probably won't bother you, since it may actually be a good idea for you to keep it open by default. But if this is not your case, it may bother you a lot, since it also delays the start of the computer a bit, and that is why here we are going to teach you how to avoid this In a simple way.
So Spotify does not open automatically when you turn on the Mac
Currently, there are two fairly simple ways to achieve this. You can try them to see which one works best for you without a problem, although as we mentioned, both will not pose much difficulty:
From the Spotify configuration
The first possibility is to do it from Spotify's own settings, since there is an option for it. This can be more useful because they give you three different options to choose from, at your choice, which would be that it opens automatically, that it opens but minimized in the dock, or that it does not directly open on its own. You can choose it by following these steps:
- Open Spotify on your Mac, and then at the top, click on the arrow that will appear right next to your name.
- A drop-down menu will appear. Click on the call option "Configuration".
- Now, in the menu, scroll down to the very bottom, and click on the white button that says "Show advanced configuration".
- Now you will see that more possible options and useful configurations appear, but especially focus on the "Startup and window" section. Inside you will see that there is an option called "Automatically open Spotify on computer startup", which is the one that really interests us. On the right side, you can choose if you want it to open automatically when the Mac starts up or not, and of course the intermediate option, which would be to open it but remain minimized in the dock, to bother you less.
- Once you have selected it, everything will be ready, since you do not need to save the changes or anything like that. Just quit Spotify settings and the next time you boot up your Mac, the settings you have chosen should apply within the options.
From System Preferences
If you can't get the previous option to work for you, or you want to make sure that Spotify (or other applications) is not slowing down the startup of your Mac, You can also configure it from the option provided by Apple within the system preferences. This is also simple, and if you want you can achieve it by following these steps:
- Enter your Mac's system preferences and then, in the main menu, choose the option called "Users and groups".
- You will see that it allows you to edit some settings of your user account, but that is not what you are interested in now. On the right side, choose your account (if you have several users), and then, at the top, press the option called "Start items", right next to the password settings.
- A list will appear with all the applications that run automatically when you start your Mac, and there should be Spotify.
- Select it and then at the bottom, click on the delete button, which is the one represented by a kind of minus or hyphen.
- In the event that you see that, by chance, it does not allow you to make changes, although in macOS Mojave you should be able to do so without problem, make sure that, at the bottom, you have authenticated by clicking on the padlock.
- Clever! The next time you turn on your Mac, Spotify should no longer appear open anywhere. The only point you should keep in mind is that, if you have more users, you should also deactivate it in them, since if you don't, it will continue to appear to them when they start the session.