topic Re: Multiple Issues with the UI in Landscape Mode on Tablets in Android

Multiple Issues with the UI in Landscape Mode on Tablets

zetadraconis — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:08:19 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

Samsung Galaxy S7+

Operating System

Android 13

My Issues

Your Library tab is left bound and uses the whole width of the screen, while content in Home and Search is contained in a box in the center and doesn't scale to the full width of the screen. This result in ugly borders to the right and especially to the left in these two tabs (and they aren't even the same size)
the carousels in the Home tab have extra blank space the width of the borders at the start and end, but otherwise extend out into these borders
the same thing happens on some Artist's pages, but not others. Smaller Artists seem to have the same behavior as the Home tab. In the others that "work" the carousels have a strict cutoff at the borders, but the blank space at the start and end is still there. This makes the carousels start with double the offset they should (the carousels for suggestions at the bottom of an albums page seem to have none of these issues and are working perfectly, making me believe they are implemented separately each time)
The header in Search scales to the full width, while the content doesn't
viewing the queue, devices or lyrics forces you into portrait mode
the menu that pops up when viewing artists on songs with multiple artists has to be scrolled up to actually see the artists for some reason
when starting the app in landscape mode, the progress bar in the bottom left doesn't have a dot on the current time. Switching to portrait makes the dot appear, which stays even when switching back to landscape
(when clicking on the search bar, the currently playing song info on the left spazes out for a second)

Re: Multiple Issues with the UI in Landscape Mode on Tablets

Dessi — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:41:08 GMT

Hi there @zetadraconis,

Thanks for the detailed post!

At Spotify, we’re regularly looking for opportunities to enhance the user experience for everyone, so your feedback on this is greatly appreciated. If you have a specific idea on how to improve the app, feel free to share it on our Idea Exchange board. Others can then show their support by giving it a thumbs up and sharing their thoughts. Before posting though, make sure to familiarize yourself with our Idea Exchange Guidelines first.

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Re: Multiple Issues with the UI in Landscape Mode on Tablets

zetadraconis — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:30:17 GMT

Hello @Dessi,

thank you for the response.

Since I didn't find any way to report a bug I decided to post here. I believe most if not all the issues I've listed are not intended behavior. Therefore they should be fixed regardless of the community voting on it. Can you point me in the right direction?

Re: Multiple Issues with the UI in Landscape Mode on Tablets

Chrisnn22 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:54:32 GMT

Someday these will get fixed 😓

Very detailed post though!

Re: Multiple Issues with the UI in Landscape Mode on Tablets

Chrisnn22 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:53:26 GMT

@zetadracronis some of these seem to have been fixed - I just noticed minutes ago that I was viewing my queue in landscape! Then the artist list for 2+ artists on a song popped up fully, without having to drag it up to actually see it. Tablets gettin' some Spotify love 🙏

Problems with optimizing the app for tablets in landscape mode.

MeraBattt — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:43:36 GMT

I have a recent tablet model and the app won't let me see the extra information or lyrics for the song I'm playing when it's in landscape mode. This only happens in landscape mode; in portrait mode it works fine. I can even "force" it to work by turning the screen to portrait mode and then rotating the screen, but it's annoying to have to rotate the screen every time I change songs to access the lyrics.

I wish it could be optimized for full use on tablets because it's obvious that these devices are used both vertically and horizontally.

It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Plus.