topic "Currently Playing" notification in Android

"Currently Playing" notification

cbpvsu_-st8xw — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:24:39 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Samsung Galaxy S8

Operating System

Android Oreo

My Question or Issue

Copied from original post that was closed:

"I've noticed a recent "feature" that will display a "Now Playing" notification on my phone when I have the desktop app playing on a computer (doesn't care what OS, and it shows the computer name at the top). I can't seem to find a way to turn that off, and it's really annoying when I have to keep clearing that notification over and over because it returns constantly. Is there a way to turn off this feature??"

Please help! This is still happening, and now I encounter situations where I can't clear the notification. I want to turn this feature off while I'm listening on desktop, but keep the notification when listening on my phone. I don't want to have to disable/enable it every time.

Re: "Currently Playing" notification

jsannn — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:24:45 GMT

Hi @cbpvsu_-st8xw

This is not recent, it is been like that since Spotify introduced "Spotify Connect" 5 years ago. Unfortunately, there is no way to turn it off.

Re: "Currently Playing" notification

cbpvsu_-st8xw — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:28:42 GMT

@jsannn wrote:
Hi @cbpvsu_-st8xw
This is not recent, it is been like that since Spotify introduced "Spotify Connect" 5 years ago. Unfortunately, there is no way to turn it off.

Perhaps I've just had old phones/OSes in the past, because I hadn't encountered this until I switched to the Galaxy S8. Thanks for the information. Maybe I could submit a request to the devs to add a toggle switch for this feature?

Re: "Currently Playing" notification

jsannn — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:36:04 GMT

The idea to make it optional exists here. You can vote for it if you want, but currently, it is marked as "Not right now" 😞

Re: "Currently Playing" notification

cbpvsu_-st8xw — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:52:31 GMT

@jsannn wrote:
The idea to make it optional exists here. You can vote for it if you want, but currently, it is marked as "Not right now" 😞

Thank you, I did! Hopefully it can gain some traction, as it's been a while and would be worth implementing.

Re: "Currently Playing" notification

jsannn — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:33:27 GMT

🙂

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Em4p6DHTRFjfBp66mGzJh