topic Re: iPhone vs. iPad in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

iPhone vs. iPad

Raize — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 15:38:05 GMT

Okay, why do people with an iPad get to listen to whatever they want whenever they want, but those of us with an iPhone can only play their playlists on shuffle? That's completely unfair.

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

Peter__ — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 16:27:56 GMT

Its down to licensing, an iPad is a tablet (greater than 7") and an iPhone is a mobile device, that is just the way the cookie crumbles. The move to allow on demand playback on tablets was in response to falling PC sales and the fact tablets are rapidly replacing traditional laptops. A phone is still a phone sadly!

To be fair, everyone should be happy - you used to need premium to use Spotify on both of them!

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

josephd60 — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:31:29 GMT

I am finding that what's on my iPhone is completely different than what's on the iPad. I have two playlists on my iPhone.
Yet the iPad doesn't even have what I have on the iPhone.
It keeps showing all the playlists I keep deleting.

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

josephd60 — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:37:51 GMT

Now it's fixed. The playlists are in sync with each other.

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

Jordi — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:39:26 GMT

Hi @josephd60,

~~Are you logged in with Facebook on both devices? If not, make sure you do.~~

Glad to hear!

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

josephd60 — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:01:57 GMT

I am on the fence about subscribing to premium. I thought you had to be a premium subscriber to have your playlists sync between the iPhone and iPad. Thanks!😊

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

josephd60 — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:04:29 GMT

What I also like about the premium subscription.
Having an iPhone, I can plug the phone into the USB in my car stereo, and use Spotify for all my music, without using data.

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

Jordi — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:04:51 GMT

@josephd60 No you don't ;-). If you ever have that issue, then something isn't right.

You need a premium subscription in order to sync your tracks offline. Not to sync them between different platforms.

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

josephd60 — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:10:37 GMT

Ok, thanks again for the quick replies! 😊

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

josephd60 — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:21:46 GMT

Every time I get ready to sign up for premium, something else crops up.
I cannot understand why my playlist I created is different between the iPhone and iPad. I have music in my playlist that is not on my iPad.
Ok, I found it why, it can sometimes take awhile for the devices to sync.
I did sign up for premium. I love how I can go offline and listen to my playlists in my car. 😊

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

josephd60 — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 06:01:54 GMT

One question I do have. I remember seeing all my songs being auto saved.
Yesterday that stopped, if I create a playlist or save an album.
I have to manually save each track in my playlist, or album.
And even though the playlists and or albums are set to offline mode.
In the songs list, offline mode is toggled off. Is this how it's supposed to work? Thanks

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

Prayashcore — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 11:42:23 GMT

On my Ipad I was able to fast forward and rewind and listen without any adds, interesting thing is I had never subscribed not even on my phone. When I checked on the Ipads spotify setting it showed a weird account name that isn't mine, about 28 letters long. It is a premium account! I don't know if this is the case with every ipad or just mine, but its great advantage for me 😉

It’s because of data

Scorps — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 05:08:19 GMT

It’s because Spotify are money hungry. If an iPad eventually gets data, they will do it with the iPad. Because they want you to pay them instead of using the free version when you are using data.

Re: iPhone vs. iPad

squints21 — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 03:00:26 GMT

That’s the reason I’m here. I love listening to music on my iPad much better than my iPhone, because it has more “Premium features”, but it’s just so much to carry around, and has no mobile data.