topic Re: Touch Preview in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

Touch Preview

Cetheridge — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 17:04:27 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

iPhone 8

My Question or Issue

Please bring back the touch preview feature. Removing it was a huge mistake and only makes me more hesitant to ever update the app for fear of finding out what new way you’ve made my favorite app worse. There are other irritating things here and there, but this has been the only issue I’ve ever had, with any product, that’s been such a stupid decision that I had to join a community and voice my opinion about

Re: Touch Preview

Maxim — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 17:19:27 GMT

Hey @Cetheridge,

You can add your support to this idea: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/iOS-Discover-Restore-Touch-Preview-on-iOS-App/idi-p/1900370.

This is the current status of it:

"Hey everyone,

We appreciate all your feedback on this.

We’re committed to offering the best experience on each platform, so we took the decision to remove this feature as it had a very low engagement rate.

For now, we'd like to keep this Idea open to collect even more thoughts about it.

Thanks!"

Thanks 🙂

Re: Touch Preview

Freebish — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:42:05 GMT

FOR GOD’S SAKE BRING BACK THE DAMN TOUCH PREVIEW! God spoke to me and said he used it to quickly identify songs and build playlists. HES PRETTY **bleep**.

Re: Touch Preview

Guido — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:11:11 GMT

Hello @Freebish,

At Spotify, we’re often testing and launching improvements and new features.

This means you might see something on the app your friend doesn’t, or get a new feature to try temporarily.

This also means that some changes will upset customers a bit. We still recommend voting and leaving a comment in the above-mentioned idea.

Let us know if you have further questions.

Have a nice day.

Re: Touch Preview

MattSuda — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:16:26 GMT

Good news!

It's not Touch Preview, but it's very similar.

In the mobile app, you can now go into a playlist, album, or artist and you will see a little icon next to the play button. Once you tap on it, you can swipe through a feed that plays you quick previews of each song. Give it a try!

It is also rolling out now in the desktop app, so you should be seeing it there soon as well.

More info here:

A new way to preview Albums, Artists, and Playlists on Desktop & Web