People create playlists to easily keep track of songs and quickly tune in to their favorite music. While you can personalize your playlists by adding a custom description, setting a custom image for the playlist takes it to the next level. If you’ve never heard of custom Spotify playlist images before, read on to find out how you can use the feature for your playlists.

You can set custom images from Spotify’s desktop, web, and mobile versions. The process to change the image is identical on both desktop and web versions. Hence, you can follow the steps given below for both Spotify Desktop and Web.

  • Set Custom Playlist Image from Spotify Desktop/Web
  • Change Spotify Playlist Picture from Mobile

Set Custom Playlist Image from Spotify Desktop/Web

  1. Open Spotify Desktop/Web and navigate to the playlist you’re planning to change the image of. Once you’re here, move the mouse pointer near the default playlist image and click on the pencil icon that appears.

Change Spotify Playlist Picture from Mobile

  1. Open the playlist on Spotify app. From the top-right corner of the playlist page, tap on the vertical three-dots menu and choose ‘Edit playlist’ from the list of available options.

So, that’s how you can change the default playlist image that Spotify automatically generates based on the first four album artworks. As you can see, the process to change the default image isn’t that complicated and can be done in simple steps within minutes.