topic Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

[iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

heymatus — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 07:53:12 GMT

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Device

iPhone 13 Pro

Operating System

iOS 15.2.1

My Question or Issue

I’ve noticed that swiping up and down the main player to/from the miniplayer seems to be running in 60fps instead of the full 120fps for ProMotion displays. As a result, it looks noticeably choppier than it should. Clicking the “share” button in the bottom right of the player opens up a sheet that is animated in 120fps and looks smoother.

I have deleted, reinstalled the app from the App Store and in TestFlight updating the build released every day with no change to this issue.

Thank You!

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Alex — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:06:41 GMT

Hey @heymatus,

Thanks for the post.

This issue should be fixed in one of the last updates, as @MattSuda has described here.

Check if there are any pending updates to your iOS and let them install. Note that if you have any type of Battery Saver enabled for Spotify, this might be causing the app to switch framerates, so try disabling Battery Optimization/ Saver.

Keep us posted on how you get on with this.

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

heymatus — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:41:59 GMT

Hello,

I have updated my Spotify to the latest (running 8.7.8 through TestFlight as of the recording attached).

The problem that the past update fixed was the animation being slow, but this problem is that the animation is choppy for 120hz on my iPhone 13 Pro. On the iPad Pro at 120hz, the animation runs very smoothly. I have attached a 240fps slow-mo video to illustrate the difference between the two devices.

To add, I am running iOS 15.4 Beta 2 on my iPhone 13 Pro. The newest betas of 15.4 fix 3rd party animations being 60fps instead of 120fps on many of my installed third-party apps. Something seems to be off with the iPhone 13 Pro implementation of the animation compared to the iPad Pro which both have a ProMotion display.

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Jeremy — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:29:03 GMT

Hi there @heymatus,

Thank you for reaching out to the Community and for the information.

We've passed this information along to the right team that will have a closer look into this.

Let us know if we can help you with anything else 🙂

Take care!

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

heymatus — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 07:08:23 GMT

TestFlight build 871800671 has officially fixed this issue for me! Cannot wait to see it hit the App Store build!

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Cotee504 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:57:34 GMT

still not resolved

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Ivelina — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:36:26 GMT

Hey @Cotee504,

Thanks for posting in the thread!

If you haven't already, could you make sure that there aren't any pending OS-updates on your device and also that you've given Spotify a clean reinstall with the steps here? Make sure you've also disabled any battery saving options as suggested previously in the thread. As this behavior should've been fixed a while ago, it's worth performing these troubleshooting steps just in case.

If the behavior persists, it'd be helpful if you could share some more details as to what you're experiencing exactly, as well as share your device's make, model, OS-version and the Spotify-version you're running.

In the meantime, we're here if anything else comes up.

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Cotee504 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:59:33 GMT

This appears to be an OS issue on iPhone models with 120Hz as the Spotify app is still running on 60 hz. Switching to 60 hz on the iPhone 17 pro makes it worse.

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Ivelina — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:15:35 GMT

Thanks for the quick response @Cotee504.

We've passed this on internally and it would be very helpful if you could send us your iPhone's OS-version and the exact Spotify-version that you're using.

Additionally it'd be great if you could even include a video of the behavior. You can either attach it to your next response via the Insert Video option in the post editor or upload it to Google Drive and share the link with us.

Many thanks!

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Cotee504 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:27:35 GMT

iOS 26.1

Spotify version 9.1.2.1254

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Cotee504 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:32:41 GMT

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0d2pyT9b0dty3JbPOfBab8FDw example

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Ivelina — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:24:18 GMT

Hey @Cotee504,

Thanks for sharing these details with us and we appreciate the patience.

The team checked this with the iOS engineers and they said that support for 120Hz was implemented in 2022. We tried this out and based on the video that you sent, you might be expecting the animation to look "smoother" and maybe slower, especially because you mentioned that it becomes worse if you switch to 60Hz.

There would be no difference if the support for 120Hz was broken and with this said, this is how Spotify currently functions - by default on the ProMotion displays, 120Hz is enabled (as you also mentioned, you’d have to go to accessibility setting and Motion and limit it to 60Hz).

Hope this info helped shed some light on this and we remain just a post away if there's anything else we can assist you with.

Take care!

Re: [iOS] Miniplayer swipe up/down running at 60fps

Cotee504 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:52:00 GMT

Please implement a new design for the animation as It looks outdated, I recommend a Liquid Glass design similar to iOS 26.