topic Disable equalizer graphic on the status bar on Android in Android

Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

EvilVik — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:35:42 GMT

In one of the recent updates a 'now playing' appeared in the notification bar. How do I get rid of it permanently?

It's there even if I turn off all notifications for Spotify. I can hide it if I long press it, but it comes back with the next song.

It's also a completely useless feature, just FYI.

Disable equalizer graphic on the status bar on Android

3hs — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:02:55 GMT

Please implement a way to disable this weird, useless equalizer graphic thing that covers up my status bar on Android when I minimize Spotify or multitask

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

3hs — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:38:00 GMT

Im using a Oneplus 12R and i just caught this same problem after the latest system update.

I noticed the red 1 on your clock so this makes me think its a OnePlus bug

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

EvilVik — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 23:01:30 GMT

Yea I'm also on a OnePlus, but 11.

Oxygen (Android) 14

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

YohY — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 17:57:57 GMT

same - OnePlus 12r - android 14
it's annoying
may be OnePlus specific (smart suggestions), but hides useful notifications that exist.

Have tried uninstalling Spotify & every option to try to remove this as it keep appearing

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

Dessi — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 07:55:59 GMT

Hi folks,

Thanks for flagging this!

We've forwarded this to our tech team so that they can have a look. We'll let you know as soon as we have an update.

Cheers!

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

ShinMinho — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:06:43 GMT

OnePlus OxygenOS 14 "feature" (Fluid Cloud) that can't be turned off, even though their manual indicates it can be. Hopefully (but not holding my breath) they will fix in an update.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

EvilVik — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:17:29 GMT

I've managed to find a workaround after a lot of googling. It's definitely a bug fron OnePlus side with the 'cloud' feature.

Go to settings>apps>show system apps and search ubiquitous manager service and disable that package. Then wait for sometime or restart device.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

dbo_ — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:59:52 GMT

Disabling Ubiquitous Manager does the trick!

But it also disables the Spotify widget on the lock screen...

You just need to restart Spotify, not your device.

Thanks a lot!

Don't force smart suggestion notification when notnusing smart shuffle.

jerkkola — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 19:17:46 GMT

At the moment at least in Oneplus 12 (Android 14) the Smart suggestion "toolbar" appears in the phone's notification area even though I turn it off. Everytime a new song begins from a playlist NOT played with smart shuffle, the "bar" comes back. Don't know if it's a Spotify issue, Oneplus Issue ornboth but it's annoying as F, as it goes over every other notification icon.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

Dessi — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 06:25:10 GMT

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the patience and glad to see you found some workarounds!

We've reached out to OnePlus to investigate this. If the workarounds mentioned don't fix this for you, you can also reach out to their Support Team so that they can take a closer look.

Take care 😊

Re: Don't force smart suggestion notification when notnusing smart shuffle.

jerkkola — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:12:17 GMT

Hi,

The smart suggestion bar appears everytime a song changes in Spotify. Even after I have given it a long tap and choosing "turn off this reminder". The Smart Shuffle is off on all of my playlists and it doesn't turn on at any time. Only the smart suggestion notification bar appears

How to disable animated bubble within status bar

mikemanpl — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 22:41:31 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Poland

Device

Honor Magic6 Pro

Operating System

Android 14

My Question or Issue

Hi,

I am a Honor Magic6 Pro user, but I found on reddit that other users face this issue too:

I am desperately seeking how to disable the animated Spotify bubble with album and equalizer that resides at the status/notification bar.

It wraps around an island with camera taking too much space. Also, not only it does nothing but animates the icon with no user action, but it also prevents notifications from other apps showing at all! I am not sure whether it is because of the lack of space or it is supposed to work that way, but it's super annyoing. I have spent several days trying to figure out why I don't get icons as notification from all the apps and it only turned that it was this Spotify feature that was responsible for such.

Banner with controls when you swipe down for notification page is more than enough and this bubble literally is a space and resources waster.

I am on Android 14 and also a premium user, but I am seriously thinking of moving to another music app because of it.

Let people decide whether they want such bubble and allow the rest to turn it off as it actually impairs the notifications for them.

I am quite sure that I am not alone with the above request and I hope you will respect voice from the community.

Ps. Look at the attached screenshots- you can see that I have two icons and once I play the music they disappear.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

mikemanpl — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:34:09 GMT

Why there is no feedback about this? This is clearly only a UI graphic gimmick, that imapirs actual system capabilities and users can't turn it off.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

DGriffithjr — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:51:41 GMT

I have a Galaxy s22 ultra. I did not have this issue until I recently took the Android 15 and UI 7 update. Now I'm stuck with this notification icon in my taskbar. I'll see if I can look at the same workaround as the OnePlus to resolve my issue.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

mikemanpl — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:29:08 GMT

This is still a good question. Probably someone has invented this ground breaking future as his personal, creative idea and aomehow it was decided by the business that this is good. Unfortunately, they don' t take into consideration how wasteful this is. Fear not, I'll vote with my money and will just leave Spotify probably.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

Geisthander — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:17:25 GMT

I'm using a samsung z fold 3, and after the last ui update, this is happening to me as well. I hate this. The bar is too short to actually read what's playing, so even if being able to glance to see what was playing was more important than seeing you have messages and other alerts waiting (it isn't), then it still wouldn't be useful. Please remove this feature, Spotify, or at least give us an option to remove it.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

Ivelina — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:11:54 GMT

Hey folks,

Thanks to everyone that's posted in the thread so far and we appreciate your patience while the teams are having a look.

In order to help with the investigation and to make sure that we understand correctly, could you let us know if Spotify is actively blocking other notifications from showing? For example, if you receive a new message/other notification, does it appear in the notification bar for a moment when Spotify's playing, or does it not show at all?

We'll be on the lookout.

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

mikemanpl — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:26:25 GMT

Hi,

It's about icon of notification icon at the notification bar. Please see the recording showing how this is handled when spotify is not working and when the app is playing (with that useless animation within the notification bar):

https://youtube.com/shorts/IOSVaRUwKA0?feature=shared

Re: Spotify blocks notification bar - no way to turn off

Joan — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:47:44 GMT

Hi @mikemanpl,

Thanks for the reply.

The video unfortunately appears as unavailable, so could you please send it again? It would definitely aid us in our investigation.

Keep us posted.