Unwanted download over mobile while in car with WiFi

[aiemdavalrus]

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

Samsung S20

Operating System

Android

My Question or Issue

I think there is a bug in the application regarding downloading only over WiFi, in some particular conditions (see below).

I have enabled the setting to allow mass-downloading only over WiFi. However, one fine day, over less than one hour, I got about 300MB of MOBILE DATA activity. All I did was drive around a bit with Spotify on mobile phone IN THE CAR. A couple of regular songs (no more). That cannot add up to 300 MB.

And this is the catch. My car has wireless Android Auto. The phone connects to the car using WiFi for Android Auto functions BUT the car WiFi AP has no Internet exit. Therefore the mobile data remains connected on the phone and it is used for all traffic to Internet.

This is normal and expected. I accept that I will use mobile data for songs I play in the car (those which are not already downloaded). But the mobile app THINKS it has WiFi and starts mass-downloading even if the actual traffic goes over mobile.

Therefore, I think you should forward this message to your developers because probably they should check if WiFi is really the path used by the download or not. And adjust the app so it refrains from mass-downloading unless the route out is confirmed to be over WiFi.

Thank you,

Florin

[aloofnerd]

I have then same issue,  I am in Egypt and we have limited wifi data and the inability to stop my downloads on wifi is problematic 😞