Android widget not working on 3rd party launchers

[barbedwirerainbow]

Plan

Premium

Country

Ireland

Device

Samsung Galaxy A53

Operating System

Android 5.1

My Question or Issue

The new 4*2 widget with album suggestions isn't showing any album art. Was ok up until yesterday.

[mikk541]

Spotify, this is ridiculous. The widget doesn't work on third-party launchers because you're checking for android.permission.BIND_APPWIDGET, a permission only system apps can get. Nova and others have confirmed this is 100% your issue, not theirs. Stop blaming launchers and fix your widget to work without this unnecessary restriction. This isn't hard—just remove the permission check.

[Alpagaffeur]

It's been a whole year with the same problem and the same cause but still no updates...

[#4]

after updating the Spotify to the latest version my Spotify widget 4x2 disappeared i have here the 4x1 of it, why is that happening. i already tried to troubleshooting it but still doesn't back the 4x2 widget on the home screen