Spotify turns itself on in very different situations - Samsung Galaxy S20 / S21

[Luki27]

Plan

Premium

Country

Poland

Device

Samsung Galaxy S20/S21

Operating System

Android 10/11

My Question or Issue

For some time now, spotify has been turning on by itself on the Samusng galaxy s20 and later also in the s21 (I switched to s21 - I made a copy of the phone). It happens very accidentally when running various applications. The music starts playing immediately after it is turned on. It often happens spontaneously at night at 4.30 :(. I don't know what to do. Did anyone have a similar problem? Of course, I installed the application from scratch, deleted all settings, etc. Continue without changes.

[Stusi85]

I just saw that Polar is currently rolling out an update of their Polar Flow app for Android where they have addressed the autoplay issuer with Spotify. I have tested it on my Pixel 5 and have reactivated the Music Control and Notification services and the issue seems to have been solved.

[TheSeparator]

Disabling the notification permissions for Polar Flow worked door me as well. 

Thank you and regards.

[hellavateienn]

This is happening to me. It just started today. I have never even heard of Power Flow, let alone have it on my phone. The only other thing I found that had sound permissions was my Roku app. And if I turn that off, then I can't use the phone for private listening. So unless someone has found out more, I am stuck.

[DalhousieGuy]

When you have to work at and research a problem that is being caused by app A and eventually determine that you have to acquire app B in order to prevent app A from randomly launching itself......it's time to divest yourself of app A.

I never found the performance of Spotify so compelling that it was worth putting up with its quirkiness, particularly with the advent of numerous, other, better-behaved music sources.

I'd listen to AM radio before putting up with**bleep** Spotify put me through.

I dumped the app.

[Ally_M_81]

Unfortunately I have neither of these applications and still experiencing this issue where my alarm will blare out 7am every morning. I have tried all of the above solutions but to no success. 

How does tidal compare to Spotify ?  

[AnneD61]

Having the same problem with my S21 FE. Spotify will start playing at random times, and it's music that I don't recognize, nothing in my playlists. I always have my Bluetooth headset on and connected.  There are no alarms or notifications going off, and I don't have Polar Flow installed. I can't even stop it by hitting "close all" on my apps, I actually have to open the Spotify app to pause the music. A few minutes later, it will start playing again.

[tali1212]

thanks. It helped. It really was part of my sleeping routines in Samsung. I deleted this routine at all and now the spotifuggle doesn't turn itself on every day.

Thanks a lot. It derived me crazy almost 3-4 years.

[thesmalls]

That did not fix the issue.