Cannot play music on phone, says "unavailable for listening on"

[frankzhou]

• Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Pixel 3

Operating System

My Question or Issue

I cannot switch to playing music on my phone when it is playing on another device using my account. So when I leave the house and try to play music it won't let me. This is absolutely a new development this has never happened before since this week. Help??

[Gosling]

Hi, I've already started a thread with a same issue 🙂
What device is it playing on?

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Android-Spotify-app-cannot-switch-back-to-phone-playback-on... for reference 🙂

[frankzhou]

Oh man, yeah it's really frustrating. I'm on Pixel 3 and music is playing on Windows 10 at home.

[PartyAtTims]

Galaxy S9 & Windows 10 here. Same problem.

[scojo78]

I just encountered this problem. My Pixel 3 was showing as unavailable for listening. I was able to resolve it by going to Spotify on the device (a laptop) that was currently playing music. From that instance of the Spotify app I was able to select my phone and the music started playing on my phone. Hope this helps!

[Robbiec321]

Same here. It seems to have started happening this week after I updated to Android 11 on my pixel 4XL. Please fix this! thank you

[beanman69]

Solution i found is to turn wifi off, switch to phone, turn wifi back on

[epifas87]

Nope, that didn't work for me

[peterDub]

This seems to be the easiest solution for now, worked for me. Still ridiculous spotify, don't auto update when it breaks the app!