It's nice, but it wasn't exactly high on our wishlist.
has announced a handy little upgrade for its iPhone users – a new widget that lets you jump straight into the app from your lock screen. But while that's a nice little quality-of-life upgrade, it's also a reminder of the many unfixed issues that are still keeping me atThe friction between Spotify and Apple is no secret – the big green streaming giant even launched a website calledthat listed Apple's apparently anti-competitive practices.
To install Spotify's new widget, just make sure you're on iOS 16 and have updated to the latest version of the Spotify app. Then do a long-press on your lock screen, tap the Customize button, tap Lock Screen, Add Widgets, and scroll down to the Spotify option. You'll now be able to open Spotify without unlocking your phone first.
Unfortunately, that's all it offers – there's no live or glanceable info, so it's effectively just a shortcut. And as someone who recently moved from Spotify to Apple Music, there are some other features and fixes that are clearly more urgent.It's pretty clear that Spotify's current strategy is more, rather than better. It wants more listeners to be able to listen to Spotify for longer in an ever-increasing number of places.
There's nothing particularly wrong with that strategy. But there are at least three features that a significant minority of its long-term users would like a lot more, if it's ever going to retake top spot in our list of theFirstly, there's support for AirPlay 2. Spotify has been promising to add in-app support for Apple's wireless streaming format to its iPhone and iPad apps for over 18 months, but it still hasn't materialized.
You can use Spotify with the first version of AirPlay, or use Spotify Connect instead, though AirPlay 2 would still be preferable for devices like the Apple HomePod. Talking of which, there's also still no native Spotify support for the
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