Spotify App Continuation
Here are five fast facts about Spotify and Samsung’s partnership expansion. It’s a continuation of our announcement last August (ICYMI, Spotify is Samsung’s go-to music service provider) Spotify will be pre-installed on millions of new Samsung mobile devices globally. Those devices include the soon-to-be-released Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, S10 5G, Galaxy Fold and select Galaxy A Series phones.—so getting a new phone means discovering new music and podcasts that much sooner. Voice control your tunes with Microsoft Cortana. Log in to the Cortana app. Select Spotify as your preferred music provider.; Log in to Spotify and continue through the steps. Continuation, an album by Duhan Donder on Spotify We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. To listen to music on the go, download Spotify from the Google Play or Apple app store. Spotify on Android with Google Play Spotify on iOS with the AppStore. To listen on other devices, a separate app may or may not be required, depending on the device. For more information, see how to play on your speakers, car, TV, or games.
Spotify—one of Apple's main rivals in both the latter's services strategy and in antitrust investigations—has released a new version of its iPhone app that supports home screen widgets, one of the flagship features of iOS 14.
Last month's release of iOS 14 brought home screen widgets—previously only the domain of iPads and Android phones—to iPhones. As we noted in our iOS 14 review, the value of the feature depends entirely on strong adoption and clever uses by third-party app developers.
Releases of widget-supporting apps from developers have been slow. Part of that was because Apple launched iOS 14 with less notice to developers than usual, meaning many were racing to play catch-up. But even now, a month later, the roster of widget-supporting apps has only grown a little.Spotify is one of the most high-profile apps on the App Store, and it finally made the jump with version 8.5.80 of its iOS app. Unfortunately, the new widget isn't all that powerful or useful. It essentially does the exact same thing the Music widget does: it shows a list of recently played songs or playlists that you can tap into from the home screen.
Tapping an entry doesn't just take you to the song in the app—it starts playing it right away, saving you an extra tap. Many users will wish they could customize what appears in the list or that they could control playback, as they currently can in the Android widget. As the setup stands now, the widget offers no customization options at all.
Some app developers (like Spark) have found creative ways to use the somewhat limited iOS widgets API (WidgetKit) to offer multiple, flexible uses of that precious home screen real estate. But users have said a lot of widgets just aren't that useful at the moment.
Those same users might wonder why we're not seeing essentially fully working slices of apps appearing on the home screen. Apple is likely to expand what developers can do with WidgetKit in future software releases, but there will always be some big limitations because of an emphasis on maintaining battery life.Lots of interactivity and live data from multiple apps on the home screen could have a negative impact there—that's probably why Apple and many devs have generally been conservative in terms of making widgets ultra-powerful.
By contrast, the Android Spotify widget offers playback control. But Spotify actually removed that comparatively powerful widget in August of last year, only to reintroduce an improved version of it shortly afterward when users complained. The brief removal led to a plethora of user-made widgets to replace the lost functionality.
But at least Spotify is supporting widgets on iPhones at all—that wasn't a foregone conclusion.
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Popular music streaming service Spotify has raised privacy concerns as multiple security researchers have expressed concerns. Back in July, USA Today reported that your activity on Spotify is public and “can be used against you.” Even if you haven’t noticed, Spotify shares your listening activity and history with anyone who has a profile.
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- How To Use Spotify Anonymously
- How To Change Your Username on Spotify
Spotify Offers Little Privacy Protection
If someone wants to use Spotify with privacy from a single user, unfortunately there isn’t much they can do. This is a clear privacy issue, because if people want to share their activity with their friends, but not with a certain user, they may opt to keep their browsing public to everyone rather than cutting it off completely. There is not choice and control over who can see a user’s profile. BuzzFeed News reported that “a harasser could, say create a public playlist with a threatening title for their victim to see.”
There have been many cases of harassment on Spotify. Because the platform doesn’t allow blocking a single user, people are left vulnerable to people monitoring their listening and then using that information to intimidate them.
Sanctuary for Families, which provides support to domestic violence survivors says letting “someone invade a private space, and continue a pattern of vontrol and power without consent, is a continuation of abuse.”
Spotify makes listening to music a more social behavior by connecting your listening to your friends and sharing your friends’ listening history. This is fun and convenient until someone uses the social aspects to harass or intimidate you.
While there are clearly issues with Spotify’s options for user privacy, it has taken steps to fix some issues. In 2017 Spotify disabled a messaging feature in 2017 which allowed anyone to send messages to other Spotify users.
Spotify Doesn’t Offer a Block Feature
A number of online publications share stories of Spotify users who have been harassed on the platform. User requests for block features go all the way back to 2012. However, Spotify has yet to address adding the feature to its service. This decision is at odds with its decision in May 2018 to remove artists music from its platform who had been accused of abuse.
Spotify Privacy Issues
Exodus Privacy’s Analysis of Spotify Trackers & Permissions
Exodus Privacy is a service that analyzes Android applications for privacy. According to the service, Spotify uses 9 trackers and requires 28 permissions. Each permission is a way Spotify collects or monitors your use.
While it makes sense for Spotify to collect data about your listening habits to recommend new music, monitoring location and accessing your contacts doesn’t seem necessary.
How to Use Spotify Anonymously
This question on Spotify’s community help site addresses the question of whether it’s possible to make your account fully private. According to the answers, there is no way to do so. If you use Spotify, anyone can view your profile.
One respondent said, “We should have the option to report and/or ban certain followers without completely shutting down sharing.”
Spotify offers a few key features which can help you use Spotify with privacy and anonymity.
Spotify Private Session
- Use a “Private Session”. This mode lets you listen without sharing with anyone. The one problem with this mode is that you have to enable it every time you use Spotify.
- Hide your Spotify activity: Go to settings and then under Social, you can turn off the sharing functions. You can keep Spotify from showing your listening history and your top artists in your profile. Another step you can take is turn off the default setting that sets new playlists to public.
Similar practices for using the broader internet privately apply to Spotify.
- Create a private account, not linked to your Gmail or Facebook account. Use a discreet username that doesn’t include your real name or another unique identifier.
Manage App Access to your Spotify Account
If you’ve never checked which apps have access to your Spotify account, you should verify that only apps that need access have it. You may notice some apps that access your Spotify information for no reason, or that you no longer use. Clearing these out can prevent third-parties from leaking your listening behavior or other data.
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How To Change Your Username on Spotify
Unfortunately, Spotify doesn’t allow people to change their usernames. This is a problem if your username contains information, like your name, that you’d rather keep private. Spotify explains that if you can’t remember your username or don’t like it you can create a new account. But if you’ve been using a student discount, you can’t apply this to your new account for 12 months.
Alternatives to Changing Your Spotify Username
- Create a New Account: Since Spotify doesn’t let you change your username, you can create a new account if your username is an issue. Just cancel your current account and start a new one.