Spotify Adds Running Mode to iOS App With Tempo-Matched Music

Spotify contiguous announced a caller Running Mode that turns playlists into structured moving sessions built astir workout type, tempo, and listening habits. It's launching connected iOS first.


Located successful the app's Fitness Hub, the diagnostic lets runners take from 25 presets that tin beryllium tweaked to acceptable workout benignant (interval, steady, oregon pyramid, for example), with options for duration, beats per minute, and the preferred benignant of music. Spotify past matches way enactment to the chosen tempo and moves done songs arsenic the league progresses.

Optional audio cues tin beryllium enabled to usher users done their run, though these are English-only for now.

Spotify suggests the diagnostic grew retired of its fitness-based "Prompted Playlists," a natural-language playlist diagnostic that has seen a batch of fittingness prompts directed its way.

Running Mode sits alongside the fittingness contented Spotify added successful April, erstwhile it began featuring Peloton classes and creator workout videos successful the app.

Strava discontinued its in-app Spotify integration late past month, and removed the euphony controls that had lived successful Strava's workout show since 2023, truthful Spotify's caller mode could beryllium a timely salve for runners who privation to support listening.

Spotify says the caller Running Mode is disposable to premium subscribers successful the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden, starting today.
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