topic Re: Picture-in-picture issues in Android

Picture-in-picture issues

jtskzxofit — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:41:53 GMT

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Spotify App Version

9.0.52.505

Plan

Premium

Device

Samsung Galaxy A53 5G

Operating System

Android 14 / One UI 6.1

Issue

When listening to a podcast with video, but in audio-only mode, the app tends to crash or view an empty PiP window when put in background.

Step-by-step

Open a podcast episode with video
Switch to audio only
Tap home screen

=> Experienced result: An empty PiP window is displayed or the App crashes (one of both).

=> Expected result: App minimises without any PiP, since I activated audio only.

Info: The issue does not appear if you "minimise" the podcast episode in the app after step 2.

Re: Picture-in-picture issues

Susan_GP — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:31:07 GMT

Hi there @jtskzxofit,

Thanks for your post here in the Community and for bringing this to our attention.

I checked this from my side and had no issues while listening to Audio only in podcasts with video available. Since we weren't able to replicate it from our side, we recommend that you try the following:

Clean the app's cache by going to Settings > Storage. Restart your device and check if that helps.
Clean reinstall the app by following these steps. You won't lose content, but you might have to re-download your offline content.
Log in with a different account (a relative or friend's will do) and check if you can replicate the behavior there. This will help you identify if this is account-related.

If nothing helps, and you'd like to continue checking how to resolve this, don't hesitate to write back. If you do, it'd be helpful if you could send a video recording of this behavior. You can attach it in your next reply in mp4 format, or you can also upload it to YouTube or Google Drive and make it public, so we can visualize it.

We'll be here.

Re: Picture-in-picture issues

Judy_Jane — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:57:19 GMT

My PIP isn't working on my Spotify. I cleared the cache, restarted my phone, force stopped the app and opened it and nothing. YouTube PIP isn't working so it's not the phones PIP feature, it's only on Spotify. Please let me know what else I can do to solve. Unistalled and reinstalled app to no avail. Thanks

Re: Picture-in-picture issues

OscarDC — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:41:47 GMT

Hey @Judy_Jane,

Thank you for joining the thread.

We appreciate all the troubleshooting you've done so far. To continue investigating this, would you mind checking on a different phone (using your own account) to see if it makes any difference? If you don't have another one available, you can borrow one from a friend or family member to test it out.

It would also be great if you could have someone log in with their account on your device (it could be the same friend or relative) to see if the issue persists.

Lastly, include in your next response the make, model, and OS version of your phone, along with the Spotify version you're currently running to continue investigating the case.

We'll be on the lookout.