topic Re: Disable notifications for Spotify Connect when not in foreground in Android

Disable notifications for Spotify Connect when not in foreground

lxgr — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:09:32 GMT

Hello,

is there any way to prevent Spotify from synchronizing the currently played track to all my devices when the app is not opened?

Since today, as soon as I push play on one of my devices, Spotify will show a persistent notification in the Android notification bar on all of the other devices.

This is very annoying - being able to control another device remotely is a nice feature, but Push notifications, on every track change, without an option to disable that behavior, are really too much. I don't even want to think about the impact on battery life...

Re: Disable notifications for Spotify Connect when not in foreground

Daniel — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:35:51 GMT

You can disable notifications from within Android.

On the devices you do not want to see notifications, go to Settings - Apps - then select Spotify from the list.. Now uncheck the box which says 'Show Notifications'.

You can also get to this if a notification is present by long-pressing the notification, then pressing 'App Info'.

I wouldn't worry about your battery life, the synchronisation really does not use much battery. If you are rooted there are options such as Greenifying Spotify if you are really worried.

Re: Disable notifications for Spotify Connect when not in foreground

JeppeTh — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:58:18 GMT

Agree, very annoying.
Disabling notifications isn't a good solution since that disables all spotify notifications permanently...

Re: Disable notifications for Spotify Connect when not in foreground

Peter__ — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:22:48 GMT

It appears to stop working on my device after some time of not looking at Spotify - but dunno if that is a bug or not!

Re: Disable notifications for Spotify Connect when not in foreground

thowit — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:24:25 GMT

Agree.
When playing music on my Mac I don't want to see notifications popping up on my phone.

I'd appreciate an option to disable this.

What's weird is that I dismiss the notifications like a hundred times, and at *some time* they actually stop popping up, but it's kind of random.

Please fix!

Re: Disable notifications for Spotify Connect when not in foreground

user-removed — Mon, 15 May 2017 12:19:09 GMT

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet, it's a trivial bug (or bad design choice) that would be an easy win for the dev team..

Re: Disable notifications for Spotify Connect when not in foreground

oilfighter — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 02:07:55 GMT

Found this thread looking for the same answer. There should be an option to disable this!