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Spotify App For Apple

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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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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Signing up or connecting with Apple means you can use Face ID, Touch ID, or your Apple device passcode to log in.

To use an Apple login you need:

  • iOS 13 or later
  • An Apple ID that uses two-factor authentication
  • To be signed in to iCloud with your Apple ID

Note: If you hide your Apple ID email address when you sign up, Apple applies a unique, random address and forwards any emails from us to your real address.

Connect an existing account to Apple

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Note: You need to share your Apple ID email address to connect, and it must match your Spotify email address.

  1. On the Spotify login screen, tap Continue with Apple.
  2. Choose to share your email address.
  3. A pop-up confirms your Apple ID email address matches a Spotify account.
    Note: No pop-up means we couldn’t match an account. Check your Spotify email matches your Apple ID email and try again.
  4. Log in to your Spotify account how you usually do.
  5. Tap CONNECT ACCOUNT to agree to connect it to your Apple ID.

Can’t log in with Apple?

Create a Spotify password so you can log in with your email address instead.

  1. Go to our password reset form.
  2. Enter your email address.
    Note: If you hid your email, use the email address generated for you by Apple.
  3. Check your inbox for an email from us to reset your password.

Don’t know your Spotify or Apple email address?

See your Spotify email address on your account page.

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For information about how to see your Apple email address or the auto-generated email address, check out the Apple support site.