post Re: Stop automatically adding playlists to My Collection when played in iOS

Stop automatically adding playlists to My Collection when played

TheStock — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:34:01 GMT

Hello,

As a Pandora Premium user on iOS, I would like to request a setting toggle that stops the app from automatically adding items to "My Collection" the moment I play them.
This behavior quickly clutters up my collection with items I didn't explicitly choose to save, forcing me to constantly go back and manually delete them. On that note, manually removing multiple items from My Collection is a very time consuming process. It would be really nice to be able to select multiple items and remove them from My Collection in one process.

Please give us a setting to turn off this automatic pinning so we can listen to music without messing up our My Collection libraries. Thank you!

Re: Stop automatically adding playlists to My Collection when played

MariaPandora — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:03:17 GMT

Hi @TheStock , welcome to the Pandora community!

Thanks for posting about this.

Can you tell me more about what's happening and about what you'd like to be implemented?

Are you referring to the Playlists that are created from the thumbs up on your stations?
Can you please give me the names of the content that was added so I can take a look?

And thanks for your feedback about the process to remove items form your collection. We appreciate you taking the time to share your idea. Feedback like yours helps us understand which features matter most to our listeners.

Let me know about the content that is being created on your account.

Re: Stop automatically adding playlists to My Collection when played

rlcarlton — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:45:59 GMT

Yes Pandora is adding duplicate titles to my playlist. How do I stop this?

Re: Stop automatically adding playlists to My Collection when played

MariaPandora — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:31:57 GMT

Hi @rlcarlton, welcome to the Pandora community!

Could you share a screenshot of what you're seeing?

To take a screenshot on your iPhone, press the Side button and the Volume Up button at the same time, then quickly release both buttons.

The screenshot will be saved to your Photos app.

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Thanks for your help with this!

Re: Stop automatically adding playlists to My Collection when played

rlcarlton — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:34:40 GMT

Maria, I meant to say that songs were being added to my playlist which were
duplicative. I think I was able to change it in settings. I want to add new
songs not Pandora.

Re: Stop automatically adding playlists to My Collection when played

MariaPandora — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:17:09 GMT

Hi @rlcarlton , thanks for clarifying.

I'm glad to hear that the duplicates were removed.

I must say, when checked your account I wasn't able to see the duplicated content so there was likely a glitch that was automatically solved.

Please let me know if you have any further issues with this.

Re: Stop automatically adding playlists to My Collection when played

rlcarlton — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:43:40 GMT

Thank you.
Sent from my iPhone