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15sec skip forward / backwards buttons gone from Android Auto with June 29 Update

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15sec skip forward / backwards buttons gone from Android Auto with June 29 Update

Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

 

Device

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge

Operating System

Android Oreo.  

Android Auto in VW 

 

My Question or Issue

With the most recent update to Spotify on the Android platform, the buttons that allow 15sec skip forwards & skip backwards have disappeared on Android Auto when listening to podcsts.  They have been replaced with a playback speed button to the left of the play button only.  This is incredibly annoying because it does not allow skipping forwards or...more importantly...skipping backwards if something is missed.

 

However the skip forward & skip back buttons are there when using the app on the device itself. They are only missing from Android Auto.

 

Can this please be fixed?

 

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Ok it appears this has been fixed with the latest update released overnight. The skip buttons are back in Android Auto.  

 

Thanks Spotify!

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Yes! This is incredibly frustrating and seems like a bug. There doesn't seem to be an intuitive reason as to why they were removed?

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Ok it appears this has been fixed with the latest update released overnight. The skip buttons are back in Android Auto.  

 

Thanks Spotify!

I think this is broken again.

 

You folks keep shuffling this stuff around.

Now the controls to go 15 forward and 15 back are there, but they are buried.  More correctly, 15 forward is buried.  You have to expand the menu (the stacked triple-dot icon) to have access to both 15 forward and 15 back, and your only choice while in map mode is next-track/previous-track.

If the point is to make this as hands free as possible fo people can focus on the road, this is a big fail.

 

There seems to be plenty of space in the UI to support both the forward/backward 15 buttons and next/previous track, but at a minimum, give me a config option to decide what displays.

Oh, and while you're in there, why not make it forward 15 and backward 10?    Or even better forward 30 and back 10?

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Hi there @toolsmythe,

 

Thanks for your reply in this thread and welcome!

 

We understand from your post that everything seems to be working, but you'd like the interface to change for easier and more accessible use. Thank you for taking the time to let us know. We appreciate your feedback, as it helps inform our decisions going forward.

 

Now, if you feel like it, you can submit an idea, making sure you follow our Community guidelines. Others can then vote on it or add to the conversation to show their support.

 

The Idea Exchange is a great way for us to see what our users are interested in and how many people like a certain idea. Check out this FAQ to learn more about it. 

 

If you need a hand with anything else, we're always a post away!

 

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