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[iOS][Discover] Restore Touch Preview on iOS App

Touch preview removal on last iOS vers. update looks like it hasn't been a great idea. You are on time to restore it, one of the best Spotify features.

Updated on 2019-03-19

Hey!

 

Thanks for coming to the Community, and adding your vote to this idea!

 

This feature was originally removed from the app due to low engagement. There was a statement at the time which you can check out at https://community.spotify.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-iPad/Touch-Preview-on-iOS-removal/td-p/1857905.

 

We're keeping this idea as 'Not Right Now', as it's not something we have any immediate plans to add back onto the app.

 

If we do have any new info to share we'll check back in here with a new status.

Cheers!

Comments
lbergstrom97

I am stunned more people aren't so upset by the removal of this. This was my favorite part of Spotify, and I discovered some of my favorite music this way. Nothing can replace this feature, and there is no good reason to leave it removed. "Low engagement rate" seems like a poor excuse. It's clearly a useful feature that was loved by many users. 

 

Please consider bringing it back!

ccisystems

My money's this was a licensing issue, not a functionality or usage issue. I think the rich greedy idiots complained about people not paying for their short previews... 

pflichtpfand

Really Hope the Feature will Come back. Made it so much easier to Discover big Playlists 

Qwerty83

I have to agree with the majority of the people here, it was a great feature as a quick preview to browse songs efficiently. 

luisazmouz

I thought I was the only one who was disappointed by this. I never updated Spotify on my iPad after I realized they removed it. It would be a real step if they bring back again since 'no one' used it before and introduce it again in an update. It makes finding new songs a breeze, previewing whole albums in a minute. Come on developers bring it back. I'm a software developer myself, thinking about working for Spotify just to implement that feature again haha. 

Phantis

Please bring that back, it completely changed my approach to how I browsed and discovered. It was an extremely useful tool.

Sammuellee

 

Please bring it back for the users who know about this feature because we use it VERY frequently!! It's what makes Spotify great to use. Maybe people are unaware of this awesome trick to get a quick feel of a song so perhaps you could have a walkthru for new users or leave a SpotifyGuide in the setting something. Even if other people don't use it, at least don't take it away from the ones who do 😞

Rmpmap
Spotify doesn’t care about how we feel
Chasie
Obviously it is a money thing. Perhaps they are charged more to allow the songs on preview. People have been begging for a long time on this one. This feature set it apart from the other guys. Without it Spotify is just another streaming music service. If it ever is brought back you can bet the rates will go up!
Hypnosguy0806

Please bring it back. It was the best feature that I have ever had. Just to see it taken right after release. Right when I started to get really good at crossfading manually for fun. I could create playlists of my fav songs and would order them to where they would mash and crossfade at different moments based on user touch. So I could fade 2 or even 3 or 4 songs while just going down the playlist.

 

It was meshing the or making the songs flow into one another in a nut shell and it was fun to make certain songs fade together in created playlists. This way the words and melodys would blend and be funny and halarious sometimes with some crossfades. 

 

The best part was getting to hear more then one begining and ending of a song. I was getting to hear certain climaxes in a song and certain parts at different intervals and together. I don't think people realized that you could mash songs together and crossfade manual for fun. Please bring it back to Ios and android if you can. It will be worth it. 

 

Scott