Spotify says customers on iPhone will now not have the ability to management the quantity of linked units utilizing their bodily quantity buttons after Apple “discontinued” the expertise that allows the performance. The change impacts Spotify Join, a function that permits customers to manage Spotify playback on numerous units like audio system, recreation consoles, and sensible TVs.
The streaming large claims that the earlier methodology had change into unstable, resulting in points comparable to quantity spikes throughout playback. Because of this, iPhone customers will now should resort to an in-app slider to regulate quantity, a change that Spotify is asking a “workaround,” studies The Verge.
To make use of the brand new quantity management, iPhone house owners might want to faucet a notification that seems once they press the bodily quantity buttons. This notification will immediate them to make use of the in-app slider. Spotify claims that the brand new answer will present “persistent, high-quality” quantity management, regardless of the additional steps concerned for customers. The change is ready to take impact on September 3, however some customers are reportedly already seeing it.
Spotify claims that Apple is refusing to grant entry to the identical expertise that permits Apple Music to play on third-party units. In a continuation of long-held tensions between the 2 firms, the streaming service has gone so far as suggesting that this might violate the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which requires main platforms to confide in third-party providers.
“We have made requests to Apple to introduce an identical answer to what they provide customers on HomePod and Apple TV for app builders who management non-Apple media units,” Spotify stated in its replace. “Apple has instructed us that they require apps to combine into HomePod with the intention to entry the expertise that controls quantity on iPhones.”
Spotify’s quantity management workaround for Spotify Join
Apple really gives an API for third-party music providers to stream on to HomePods, however for no matter purpose Spotify has chosen to not implement it. Luckily, iPhone customers working iOS 17 can nonetheless begin an AirPlay session on HomePod utilizing a Siri command (e.g. “Siri, play Fleetwood Mac on Spotify”). It is value noting that this transformation solely impacts Spotify Join on iOS. Spotify customers controlling quantity through Bluetooth or AirPlay is not going to be impacted.
