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Plan
Premium
Country
New Zealand
Device
Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5G
Operating System
Android 11
My Question or Issue
As of today the 'Car Mode' is missing from my settings. I have it on all the time for driving before and after work, but when I started playing music this morning it defaulted to the main play view with no sign of the setting.
Is this feature removed or is it a bug? Does anyone else have this problem?
Thanks!
Car view not available in landscape view almost caused me to crash multiple times due **bleep** interface not adjusting or detecting i am in the car (Volkswagen move Up! )
Integration with google maps also not working would love if integration with vw apps would be nice or a decent car mode! P.s i am a premium user
Almost 6 months and nothing yet? What is going on? I am already at the point of looking for Spotify alternatives. It is ridiculous that I need to use a 3rd part app to keep my screen always on and still the song title is ridiculously small, and the control buttons are too small to operate while driving.
Where is this new feature?
Rather have the old car view back till a new one is developed at least it was somewhat usefull!
Just came across this after struggling for the last few months.
I literally notice myself now trying to turn my head and really having to focus on my phone in its cradle in order to see what's playing, how on earth is that safer?! In power save mode I literally cannot see any more.
I'm an app developer, it's insane to remove an essential feature before replacing it, you just alienate your users. Who ever decided this needs firing.
Sadly, this isn't the first time Spotify's done similar things. When they decided to revamp the client a few years back, they apparently rebuilt a lot of their code base and before there was feature parity with the prior version pushed "updates" to everyone. There was a lot of complaints that they should have made the new version an opt-in beta rather than making it the "production" version. Seems they haven't learned much about not punishing their customers while they figure stuff out...
Ditto. This actually broke my whole car setup, it seems to rely on car mode working to interact with my head-unit properly. I can't use it at all and have to literally get my phone out and look at it to play music, change tracks etcs.
Useless. Just bring it back.
Well they want you to buy the Car Thing...
I mean for me it's also just an accessibility thing, like it's actually quite hard for me to hit the tiny buttons, like when I'm at the gym or in a car. Please bring the feature back.
Cmon how long shall we wait to get it back ...
Btw vote here - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Android-Other-Bring-back-the-car-view/idc-p/5382310#M242...
Maybe it will make a difference?
I've been using Spotify for years but I'm leaving because of:
put 👏 back 👏 car 👏 mode 👏
Car mode has reappeared on my Android... You have to disable the "Show Waze Banners" and then the "Car" option is re-enabled.
US Android version 4.7.64.478
wut? not on my Spotify
I'm from the UK, no maps or waze linked
The version I got is the latest 8.7.64.478
Hadn't tried landscape, appears that doesn't work, but the portrait mode looks similar to how it was other than it has color cover art rather than just the name... It does prevent screen save while up, so it does fix that issue for me.
What the **bleep**..I dont even have such option available in my Spotify app named: "show waze banners".
Do you have some modded version of Spotify installed perhaps?
Not modified, just have Waze integration enabled:
Waze -> My Waze -> Settings (gear icon upper left) -> Audio Player
i connected spotify with google maps. i will try to turn phone vertically today while driving - i just realized it is always horizontal
Its been a year and there is still no alternative being made available, when can we expect the driving mode display to be reimplemented? Or for these long promised alternatives to be released?
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