Spotify Lockscreen Controls Lose Connection to Google Home

[afoti5]

Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

Google Pixel 2

Operating System

Android 10

My Question or Issue

When casting to a Google Home speaker, the lock screen playback controls/song info loses connection when the phone is in standby. Have to unlock the phone, and give it a few seconds to re-establish the connection, where the Spotify notification in the shade then catches up. It gets annoying when I want to quickly skip a song on the lock screen, but as it isn't in sync it does not work. Can this please be investigated? Thanks

[Ivan]

Hey there @afoti5, 

Thanks for reaching out to the Community about this. 
 

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[kicker1]

Sorry for double post

[kicker1]

Hi, it seems that too aggressive battery saving can cause this problem.

I have found settings to exclude Spotify from battery saving measurements.

(Sorry my android devices speak German)

SAMSUNG

1 Einstellungen->Gerätewartung->Akku

->nicht überwachte apps

->Apps hinzufügen->Spotify

2 Einstellungen->Apps->"3Punkte"

->spezieller Zugriff

->Akkuverbrauch optimieren->Alle Apps

->Spotify

HUAWEI

1 Einstellungen->Akku->App-Start->Spotify

->manuell verwalten

2 Einstellungen->Apps->Apps->"3Punkte"

->Sonderzugriff->Akkuoptimierung

->alle Apps->Spotify->nicht zugelassen

3 Einstellungen->Apps->Apps->Spotify

Details zur Akkunutzung

->Stromverbrauchs-Warnung