Spotify does not appear on home screen of notifications

[Jammmiejammmie]

Since a couple of weeks, after an update, I noticed that spotify does not appear on my home screen (when phone is locked) or in my notification bar at all. 

While listening to songs, I cannot see to what song I am listening to or to switch songs without unlocking my phone and opening the app again. 

I was hoping it would be a temporary bug but till so far it is still not resolved and it is becoming quite annoying. 

Does anyone have an idea? I can not find anything (fellow android users with the same problem) about this on Google play or Spotify community. 

I have a Google Pixel with Android 8.1.0 and Spotify version 8.4.38.621 arm V7.

[TheBrickSlayer · Accepted solution]

Please, try out this solution and let me know if this worked 🙂

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Lockscreen-and-notification-bar-controls-not-showing-up/td-...

[Jammmiejammmie]

It worked!! Thanks a lot!