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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
Evieemonster

Please please please bring this feature back I am begging you spotify! If you really cared about the way your customers feel you would have already brought it back. Instead of making 'your time capsule' playlists sort this issue the **bleep** out! 

daianrech

This was the best functionality of Spotify to discover new songs and with fewer clicks to listen to excerpts of the songs. I honestly do not see a reason why they did not leave this functionality that does not disturb anything that does not use it. I even believe that the problem that you have had is copyright because they reproduce much more pieces of music and they have to leave it registered! I hope that the functionality comes back and that is not for this forum or debate that is very hidden and nobody knows it exists.

Call_me_skulls

This is so over the top guys. ADD THIS FEATURE BACK. 

Kdkosk

Please bring this feature back. Easiest way to discover new music. Now very cumbersome to do. Poor decision!

zoe33195

Hate that we don’t have it ! Literally in the top 3 things about Spotify and with out if questioning going to Apple Music because it’s more convenient for iPhones anyway but I’ve always stuck around because Spotify had cooler things like this !!!! BRING IT BACK 

Mattylicious

That was a really stupid idea to take that feature away! I used that feature all the time and so would everyone else if you would have advertised it properly. If you wanna use the long press for something else then figure out another way to bring the preview back maybe add a sample play next to the play button? Idk but it bothers me and I need it back please and thank you! 

Luc4s

If you wanna remove this feature from customers overall at least make it optional inside Settings so people like me can still use it!

 

Come on Spotify, this is is not the first time you remove EXCELLENT features from the app. Don’t disappoint us again. 

 

Listen to your customers please!

 

 

billus77

Just restore it 

WinOrLose

Please RESTORE the Touch Preview feature which differentiated you from competitors.

 

Is restoring code that already exists extremely costly? Sure, there'd need to be some tweaks and maintenance, but how much does that cost?

 

Is the cost more than the number of paying customers you stand to lose, or a reduced growth rate?

 

Is the cost less than failing to retain your previously-loyal customer-base?

 

Spotify claims they are "committed to offering the best experience". Really?! Removing a feature improves a users experience? Maybe if it's bloated, but that's hardly the case. Would restoring a well-tested feature really ruin the user experience or make it less than, "the best"?!

 

Is there no money for Operations or Development at Spotify? Is there insufficient staff to support the existing codebase? The statement that removing Touch Preview will help keep the Spotify UX "the best". That seems disingenuous.

 

-An Increasingly disatisfied customer - thinking about abandoning my Spotify family subscribtion and returning to Apple.

 

Thanks.

John166

Bring it back!