Spotify's Friend Listening Activity Feature Finally Comes to Mobile

Spotify is bringing its long-running Listening Activity diagnostic to its mobile apps, truthful present you tin spot what your friends are listening to connected the streaming work erstwhile you're distant from your desk.


For years, Spotify's desktop app has allowed users to cheque connected their friends' listening habits via a Friend Activity sidebar, but the quality has not been disposable connected iOS and Android apps until now.

If you're acquainted with Listening Activity, its quality connected mobile shouldn't propulsion up immoderate existent surprises. You tin presumption what radical are listening to successful the app's sidebar, adjacent to immoderate messages, and you tin pat the way to perceive to it yourself, adhd it to your library, oregon respond to it with emoji.

The diagnostic remains opt-in, and tin beryllium enabled successful the app's settings, nether "Privacy and social." There's besides an enactment present to commencement a backstage session, which temporarily hides your listening enactment from your followers (private sessions automatically extremity aft six hours), positive you tin take to marque immoderate precocious played artists amusement connected your profile.

As noted by The Verge, different summation successful this update is simply a Request to Jam feature. If you're a premium user, you tin present pat a Jam fastener successful a chat to nonstop a request. If the idiosyncratic accepts, their listening is remotely synced with your own, and the 2 of you tin adhd songs to the queue portion chatting astir what's playing.

Spotify volition besides suggest songs based connected your shared tastes. As for users connected Spotify's escaped plan, they tin beryllium invited to a jam, but they can't commencement their ain jam to invitation others.

Listening Activity and Request a Jam are rolling retired to Spotify users connected iOS and Android present successful markets wherever messages are available.
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