Android widget not working on 3rd party launchers

[barbedwirerainbow]

Plan

Premium

Country

Ireland

Device

Samsung Galaxy A53

Operating System

Android 5.1

My Question or Issue

The new 4*2 widget with album suggestions isn't showing any album art. Was ok up until yesterday.

[hnavia]

I'm already in the latest version available for my device. I can check on my wife device as the only difference, at the moment, it might be that I use Nova Launcher but I'm not totally sure about this.

I'll keep you updated.

[Eni]

Hey @hnavia, 

Thanks for keeping us in the loop. 

Take your time to test this on your wife's device and let us know how it goes. 

We'll be waiting for your reply 🙂

[Sergeant_hcr]

Same deal for me on a S22 as hnavia above 

[Vasil]

Hey @Sergeant_hcr,

We moved your post to this thread where we've troubleshooted @hnavia's issue, hope you don't mind!
Take a look at the mentioned troubleshooting steps here and let us know in case the issue remains 🙂
We'll be on the lookout.

[Ngirard84]

I have Nova Launcher and a Samsung Galaxy s24 Ultra.  Same android 14 and OneUI 6.1

I also experienced a stop in widget functionality recently.  As it worked fine a few months ago.  Is there a solution for this yet?

[hnavia]

My apologies, I haven't had time to do anymore tests at the moment. However, I checked on my wife's phone and yes, she's experiencing the same issue with her phone.

Both of us have the Samsung S23 Ultra and using the Nova Launcher. OS is Android 14 running OneUI 6.1 (latest version released by Samsung).

Can't find a way of fixing the widget.

[Eni]

Hey folks, 

Thanks for all the info you've sent so far. 

Would you mind checking if you remove the Nova Launcher the widget starts behaving as expected again? 

We'll be waiting for your replies.

[hnavia]

Just tested it (again) and it seems to behave better. I can see the buttons, the thumbnails and it seems to be working as expected although the colors are a bit weird but it seems to be related to the colors of the current song/band being played (Yellow background with white controls is not really good).

However, I would expect the widget to work the same with any launcher. I Might need to reach Nova developers.

[Eni]

Hey @hnavia, 

Thanks for getting back to us.

Take your time to reach out to them and let us know how it goes. 

We'll be on the lookout.

[hnavia]

Hi Eni,

Nova replied to me the following:

According to Nova Support Specialist, this is a bug in Spotify and not related to the launcher.

Kind regards.

[Vasil]

Hey folks!

We'd like to take a further look into this so we merged the related posts in this thread to keep them in on place, hope you don't mind.
We'll let you know as soon we know anything new on the matter 🙂

[samcous]

Hi there,

I've been having the same issue with the Spotify widget for several years now, both in Nova Launcher and on One UI. I've already reported this to both Nova and Samsung, and it seems like the problem lies with Spotify. Could you please look into fixing this issue that many people are experiencing? I feel like I'm being ping-ponged back and forth between Spotify and the launcher developers. At the worst, bring back the old widget that worked well without being as visually appealing.

[alexmansv]

Hello dear friends, I'm having a similar issue trying to add Spotify widget on Moto G84 with Android 14 but it appears to be missing in the widget list to be added 😢  If you could please help? Thanks in advance.

Update: After a couple of restarts the widget finally appeared in the launcher 🙂