topic Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

IOS Spotify Widget background black

t_dance01 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:13:04 GMT

Plan

Premium

Device

Iphone 12 pro

Operating System

iOS 17

On my home screen, I have a long Spotify widget. Recently, the background of that widget has been black as opposed to the colour of my playlist. I'm not sure why this is and how to get it back to changing according the playlist that is being played. Is anyone else experiencing this issue??

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

JaydenD — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:15:00 GMT

Same here.

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

hannahbatia98 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 16:14:32 GMT

Same thing happened to me! It makes me sad…

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s_46 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 19:05:06 GMT

same!

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

aoifet — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 20:27:31 GMT

it’s dark mode on your phone unfortunately i had the same problem but when i changed to light mode for everything in settings it changed back

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

tomnookstan — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 02:18:11 GMT

yeah i don't know why they made these changes. in dark mode, it's just black, and in light mode it's a weirdly oversaturated gradient that doesn't match the color scheme of the original album art. they should really just revert these changes entirely because they give users less options... and we pay for this service. or at least add an option in the settings that lets us decide if we want the background to be black in dark mode. these changes are so arbitrary

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

Bechilol — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:39:06 GMT

please change it back lol

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destruction — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:20:42 GMT

this new feature is terrible i use dark mode all the time but i have a bright wallpaper so it ruins everything for me spotify pls remove this or at least have it as an option to remove in setting i still want colour on my spotify widgets!!

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

v4ri4n — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 01:50:43 GMT

spotify changed it to be based off of ur device’s theme (light mode or dark mode) instead of the playlist/song/album cover. idk why, i rlly hope they change it back 😞

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

djembedjembe — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:45:15 GMT

This did not work lol why is this marked as a solution

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

rueolearywalker — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:10:17 GMT

Me neither. Switching to light mode just made it a white box instead of black.

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shenquanrui — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 05:17:22 GMT

i hate this so much. i cant use light mode because everything else is too bright then, but the spotify widget looks terrible with my colorful wallpaper

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

valerieboutros — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 07:54:15 GMT

i’m not sure why this is marked as solved because it absolutely is not. whether i’m in dark mode or in light it’s just a solid black or white rectangle. can someone fix this? it’s hideous

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

Luannrad910 — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:07:31 GMT

The marked solution is not a solution but I deleted the widget and then restarted my phone and got the widget back and it stopped showing an entirely blank black square. Still black outline based on night or light mode but I can live with the outline it just wasn’t showing anything and was a blank black square.

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

Taytayswift13 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 14:44:53 GMT

same!!

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

Taytayswift13 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 14:49:11 GMT

i tried this and this worked but instead i got full color back just like before

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

caileysobased — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 03:23:13 GMT

Seems other people are having problems with the album background color, if your having the whole widget as Black or White you need to remove the widget, restart your device and once you add it back you will be able to see your song/songs.

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

corniasf — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 22:59:35 GMT

I had this issue today. Play at least 1 song from 5 different albums/playlists and then restart your phone. This fixed it for me. It seems to be blank because it's not syncing with what you recently played. This helps sync it.

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

ToddiesTunes — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:17:16 GMT

Please please. An answer is not changing your phone back to light mode. Please SPOTIFY, hear your community and change this back to the widget being same colour as the song you’re listening too.. 🙏 We pay for this service and this is very disliked. Please don’t ignore us!! Or say change to light mode. ✌️🙏❤️

Re: IOS Spotify Widget background black

ToddiesTunes — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:34:49 GMT

How do I sync it please?