How to stop my phone from controlling volume on my computer

[albertus50]

Hello, I have the following problem: whenever i am playing music on my computer, the volume control button on my phone is directly linked with my computer spotify volume so whenever i click less volume it just changes that of my pc spotify instead of the volume of my actual phone. How can i stop that?

Thanks in advance

Plan

/Premium

Country

Switzerland

Device

Samsung S20, Hp omen 15

Operating System

Windows 10, Android 11

My Question or Issue

[Ashcolors]

remove this feature, please. It should never have been introduced.

[LionelC]

Absolutely

[contemplative1]

Hey @Alex,

While this is the solution that I normally used to resolve this issue, I found that it does not always work. I have an iPhone 12 Pro and for whatever reason, the Spotify volume on my computer was still impacting/controlling the volume level on my iPhone. I assume this is a software issue in the device that is still connecting with the Spotify app to use the remote function even after the app has been closed completely.

My solution to this problem, when closing out of the Spotify app completely does not work, is to restart the iPhone (after I have closed out of the app). Upon restart, the remote function is no longer connected and my volume controls for the computer and iPhone are now separate again.

Hopefully, this solution helps other iPhone users as well. 

[EarlofEltham]

How is this still a problem in 2023???

Getting the same issue on my iPhone and Windows laptop. 

I use Spotify on my work computer. I have the Spotify volume at max then control the level using the system volume. Then when I jump on my phone to do something and its volume is maxed.

And like everyone else, can confirm that this happens even when Spotify is completely closed on the iPhone. 

[pblivingston]

Requiring the user to close the app before they can regain use of their volume buttons is not a "solution." There is device volume control in-app; taking control of the volume buttons like this should require explicit user permission, especially if it's the default behavior.

[Bulca]

It's a shame that it's 2023 and we still have the same issue. This shouldn't be that hard to fix, right? I think you can find a freelancer or sth who can fix that in 10 mins for 5 bucks

[Jess736]

Sad to see this is still a problem in 2023… looking for a way to fix it since it’s highly annoying.

I use Spotify on my PC, occasionally using my watch in order to skip songs. In order to have it open on my watch synced to my pc, I need to open the Spotify app on my phone too (already an inconvenience but I can deal with that)

the annoying part comes when I want to use something other than Spotify on my phone. Even if I’ve already turned off the music, the volume stays maxed, which ends up blasting whatever I play at max volume and trust me that has gotten me in quite a bit of trouble multiple times. (Eg when I opened Instagram while in the car and a reel started playing automatically, blasting full volume for my entire family to hear, or that time I opened YouTube planning to watch a vid on very low volume bc it was the evening/night and then I ended up waking up my little brother with how loud the max volume video was.) The problem with the so called “solution” mentioned above is this:

1. Closing the app does disconnect it, usually, but the volume stays maxed

2. The volume on my phone automatically syncs to be the same as on Spotify my PC, rather than me having to manually control it for it to start changing it

3. The whole idea that an app takes over your volume buttons without permission honestly bugs me a lot

4. The volume buttons still control spotify even when you’re not in the app, which should not be the case in my opinion, as some others mentioned above

5. Often the spotify app will do this in the background even tho I haven’t specifically opened the app. This is great for the remote  control of skipping songs or pausing the music, but it also links up the volume which is unnecessary

6. I never even change Spotifys volume itself, I have that set to max and change my system volume on my pc, so that is just a useless function

it would be great if Spotify could fix this issue, and make connecting your volume to pc an option rather than a default.

[declaude]

This does not work on a droid.  I have the app closed and every once in a while, my phone hijacks the Spotify volume on my pc even after a restart.

[madcowzrchewy]

Still a problem April 2023. My phone volume rocker will lock to controlling the volume of my computer. Spotify has hijacked my phone's physical buttons. UNDO DELETE TERMINATE THIS FEATURE. The one thing that will make me cancel my subscription. Unacceptable that this still has not been resolved.

[22rso2orodybjymoikxn]

having to just turn it off on your phone every time you want to listen to music on your pc is not  a real solution... because obviously you are going to have to do this every... single... time...

Spotify makes the app open on the phone when you are listing on PC which is insanely annoying. You have to pause your music on pc or you cant swipe it out of the notifications. Once you hit play again on the pc the Spotify notification bar pops back up on the phone. This happens even if you force stop Spotify on the phone.  These steps have to be done at least twice to get it to stay closed on the phone. Is there no option to keep the app from auto opening when listing on pc.

I feel like this is a recent issue for me as Im always listing to music on my pc and using my phone for other things and never had it control my pc volume before. 

[haskylesett]

Any way we users can get a toggle for this feature?

This volume control thing is by far the worst feature the iOS app has.

Regularly I experience the following...

- I'll open the iOS app when I have music playing on a different device

- My phone's media volume will auto adjust to full blast

- I won't notice (I don't even know if the app alerts you to this)

- I open social media

- All of sudden I have a full blast youtube, instagram, tiktok, etc. playing at full volume.

Very irritating.

[caercasdcasdqewadasc]

This is common Spotify problem. I constantly trying(at least once a month) figure out how to turn it off but nothing helped. Spotify makes my iPhone volume at max level from time to time, even morning alert volume!

The thing is when I use my mac app and open iOS app - Spotify Connect decide that iOS system volume should be the same as mac app(but Spotify mac app volume is always at max because I control mac system volume and don't see the reason to control it in the app). The only feature I waiting for is "turn off Spotify Connect" 💩 or "use only one device" like Soundcloud has, genius!

[declaude]

ALWAYS does it even with the app closed.  It's annoying AF

[madcowzrchewy]

This is not a solution to the problem, you still hijack my phone's physical buttons. I want to control MY PHONE with MY PHONE, not MY COMPUTER. This issue is NOT SOLVED

[jamie_perkins]

Recently, a spotify update on iOS made it so whatever my volume is set at in Spotify, it sets my iOS system volume to, and vice versa. I have always kept spotify at top volume, and control my output volume with the system volume. This is causing major unexpected volume levels, let me explain why.

Let's say I am playing a game on my phone, I probably have the device volume at about 15%, which is plenty loud to hear the game sound effects. Then I get in my car, and want to play spotify. I can barely hear the music so I turn my car stereo up all the way and still the music is not loud at all. So I have to turn up my spotify volume and turn down my car stereo.

When I play a game again, it's extremely, ear-splittingly loud because spotify made my iOS device volume match the volume it was set at. This has happened to me multiple times over the past few days, and worse, it syncs with the desktop app volume as well. So if I am listening to music and have spotify open on both my device and desktop, the volume syncs and now my phone will deafen me again if I open tiktok or any other app with sound.

Please, this feature was poorly thought out. Consider reverting it, or at least allow us to disable it.

[Tarindel]

 I've been reporting this issue since ios 15 came out.

I can't keep Spotify installed on my iPhone because it will randomly change my volume to 100% in the middle of the night and my white noise app will go full blast and wake everyone up at 3am.  It's really unpleasant.

I've also had this issue happen while using BT earbuds and had my ear drums blasted out.

This is a health and safety issue, and they just don't care because not enough people complain about it.

[Qewqe]

Hi after doing everything there i also have this, laptop w10, phone lg k62+

[declaude]

Mine still does it.  It's annoying that the only solution is to restart your phone and sometimes I have to restart it more than once before it finally works.

[tifaamber]

YALL TRY THIS!! This bs was getting on my nerves, it randomly started this past week when I've never had the problem before. I'll update if this doesn't end up working

[ghislainium]

Disabling the app on your phone isn't really a solution is it? I just want to be able to use my phone as a phone while i have spotify playing on my computer. If i want to control spotify on my computer I can actually use my computer controls it's right in front of me! I get that you don't want two people using the same account but other streaming platforms can manage that, how about a lock that means it can only play on one device at a time. I mean seriously. Why is it so ridiculous that if i am using my phone to look at non spotify content i want the phone volume controls to actually control my phone volume.

I just want to be able to have spotify not steal the phone volume control when I'm not even using spotify on my phone. it shouldn't be that hard to do!