WiFi Streaming quality affecting mobile data ueage

[Anventia]

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

Pixel 7 Pro

Operating System

Android 16

My Question or Issue

Recently my Spotify streaming has been using 60-150+MB of data after streaming for around 30 minutes, I'm not sure why. 

My data saver in the app is set to Always On, streaming quality on data is set to Low, with auto-adjust Off, and downloads and video playback on data are also disabled. 

When I change my Wi-Fi streaming quality down, the data usage goes down, with the above usage happening with Lossless quality on WiFi. This makes no sense at all as the WiFi quality setting should not change how much *mobile data* it uses!

My mobile plan is 5G, if that matters. I only started noticing this problem around 2-3 months ago, and may have coincided with when I changed from 4G to 5G, but not sure. Maybe the app updated around the same time and this is a bug?

Any insight would be appreciated, and let me know if there's any more info I can provide!

[MihailY]

Hey @Anventia,

Thanks for reaching out.

Are you by any chance using Spotify in the car connected to Android Auto? We're currently investigating a similar issue here, so if that's the case, make sure to post your details in the thread and subscribe for updates.

If not, then it's a good idea to try some basic troubleshooting like clean reinstalling the app following these steps. Note that your settings will be reset after you're done so please adjust them again and let us know if the issue persists.

Keep us posted.

[Anventia]

I am not using Android Auto. 

I will try clean reinstalling and see if that works! I'll have to download every playlist again though, I wish there was a way to save which ones I had selected.