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New iPhone Feature: Spotify Lock Screen widget

Now you can open Spotify on your iPhone even faster with the new Lock Screen widget! After you add the new Spotify widget to your Lock Screen, tapping on it will quickly open the Spotify app. So whether you're busy on the go, in the car, or at home, ...

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  • MattSuda
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Downloading music on Apple Watch

Hey folks!Here's a few tips & tricks to share about downloading music from Spotify on your Apple Watch! - If you're looking to get started, check this out! Not seeing the 'Download to Apple Watch'-button yet? Make sure your Spotify app is up-to-date ...

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  • Camila73
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Solved!! I have a different interface compared to my friends

Plan Premium Country Hong Kong Device iPhone XS Operating System iOS 13.1.3 My Question or Issue I have just start using Spotify and I realise my interface in artists is different from those of my friends. My friends have the number of liked songs un...

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  • n0hero
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Downloaded Songs not playing

PlanPremiumCountryusaDeviceiphone xsOperating Systemios 14.7.1 My Question or Issue IOS version 8.6.60.1313 When i play songs that are downloaded, it will no longer play them. If i take them out of my downloads and stream them over wifi or over cellu...

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  • Plan Premium Country usa Device iphone xs Operating System ios 14.7.1   My Question or Issue   IOS version 8.6.60.1313   When i play songs that are downloaded, it will n...
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Superuser Contribution Podcasts aren't downloading?

PlanPremiumCountryEngland Device(iPhone 11)Operating System(iOS 10) My Question or IssuePodcasts are no longer downloading. I click on the download button and it's briefly added to my 'episodes', but the episodes button and download button reset and ...

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  • Plan Premium Country England  Device (iPhone 11) Operating System (iOS 10)   My Question or Issue Podcasts are no longer downloading. I click on the download button and it's b...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Unable to play or download Episodes from a specific Podcast across multiple devices

PlanPremium CountryUK DeviceiPhone 12 mini / iPad 7th Gen Operating SystemiOS 15.2 My Question or IssueI am unable to play or download episodes from a specific podcast (Guardian Football Weekly). When I select 'Play' on an episode, nothing happens. W...

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  • Plan Premium   Country UK   Device iPhone 12 mini / iPad 7th Gen   Operating System iOS 15.2   My Question or Issue I am unable to play or download episodes from a s...
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Superuser Contribution Local file not showing up on mobile app when it's downloaded on desktop app

I followed all the steps in this article to get a song from my desktop onto the local files on my desktop Spotify app, but when I try to get the playlist with the songs on it to my iPhone mobile Spotify app, nothing shows up and it says that the song...

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  • ...obile Spotify app, nothing shows up and it says that the song isn't downloaded, even though the playlist with it in it is downloaded on both my desktop and mobile Spotify apps. Why is it not showing up o...
  • Alex
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songs updating on "made by spotify" playlist

Plan:PremiumCountry: HondurasDevice: iPhone 7I have the latest Spotify app and I use the "made by Spotify" playlists. I do not use Cell Data when I leave the house, so the playlists are downloaded to the phone. My issue is that the playlists update a...

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  • ...he playlists are downloaded to the phone.    My issue is that the playlists update automatically with new songs and if it starts to do it as I am leaving the house, there are a lot of songs n...
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Superuser Contribution Local Files grayed out on iPhone.

The local files I have downloaded on my laptop work on the laptop, but not on any other device. I have read other topics so I have tried many fixes, but none of them have worked. I have tried disabling firewall, putting internet on private, uninstall...

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  • The local files I have downloaded on my laptop work on the laptop, but not on any other device. I have read other topics so I have tried many fixes, but none of them have worked. I have tried d...
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I cant download some albums

PlanPremium FamiliarCountryArgentinaDeviceiPhone 7Operating SystemiOS My Question or IssueI have premium, but i cant download some albums. i try A.R. Kane "Singles Collection" and R.A.P. Ferreira: "Purple Moonlight Pages "Its says that i have too muc...

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  •   Plan Premium Familiar Country Argentina Device iPhone 7 Operating System iOS    My Question or Issue I have premium, but i cant download some albums. i try A.R. Kane "S...
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Downloaded songs not appearing

PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDeviceiPhone 8SOperating SystemiOs 13.3.1 My Question or IssueSo I downloaded some songs from youtube, and put them in a playlist and everything works as it should. I can see the songs, hear the songs do whatever with the son...

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  • Plan Premium Country Denmark Device iPhone 8S Operating System iOs 13.3.1   My Question or Issue So I downloaded some songs from youtube, and put them in a playlist and everything w...
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Playlist download stuck on waiting

Plan: PremiumCountry: USA Device(iPhone 11 Pro, Macbook Air)Operating System(iOS 13.3, MacOS 10.14.6) My Question or IssueI have a new installation of Spotify on my Mac. I am trying to sync local files from the Mac to be available on my iPhone. I hav...

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  • ...ac. I am trying to sync local files from the Mac to be available on my iPhone. I have a handful of playlists, and started the download for them - both on the Mac, and on the iPhone. The download s...
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Downloaded songs not playing offline

I have all my playlists downloaded, they are marked as such and they take up room on my phone. However when playing certain (most) songs in offline mode they just don’t work, the song won’t even begin. I’ve realised this after burning thru data the p...

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  • I have all my playlists downloaded, they are marked as such and they take up room on my phone. However when playing certain (most) songs in offline mode they just don’t work, the song won’t even b...
  • jamieminetto
  • Casual Listener
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Whole album download when only 2 or 1 songs are saved

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevice(iPhone 5c)Operating System(iOS 10) My Question or IssueI may have 1 or two songs saved from one album and when I download them through the album it downloads all the songs even if they aren't saved.

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  • Plan Premium Country UK Device (iPhone 5c) Operating System (iOS 10)   My Question or Issue I may have 1 or two songs saved from one album and when I download them through the album i...
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Podcasts don’t download

PlanPremiumCountryUKDevice(iPhone 6s)Operating System(iOS - most up to date) My Question or Issue: when i select the download button on any podcast I just get a spinning circle and it down at download. I have download over cellular, I have reinstalle...

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  •   Plan Premium Country UK Device (iPhone 6s) Operating System (iOS - most up to date)   My Question or Issue:   when i select the download button on any podcast I just g...
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Downloads will not remove from iPhone causing storage issues

Plan - PremiumCountry - UKDevice - iPhone 6Operating System - iOS 12.3.1 My Question or Issue Dear Spotify Community My phone storage is complety full. Whenever I attempt to remove downloads from Spotify by switching the Playlist/Album download slide...

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  • ...omplety full. Whenever I attempt to remove downloads from Spotify by switching the Playlist/Album download sliders from green on, to grey off, receiving the message 'Remove from Downloads' and confirming b...
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Cannot download music even after removing all offline devices, and reinstalling app on phone.

PlanPremiumCountryUS Deviceiphone 8Operating SystemiOS 12.3.1 My Question or Issue:I am getting the "epic collection" error and unable to download music on my phone. However, I removed all my offline devices (there were only 5, which is supposedly th...

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  • Plan Premium Country US   Device iphone 8 Operating System iOS 12.3.1   My Question or Issue: I am getting the "epic collection" error and unable to download music on my phone. H...
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Downloaded Songs

So i have spotify premium and ofcourse i download , specific , songs to listen to offline. But sometimes songs that i didn’t add to my library but are in the same album where i did download some songs of are getting downloaded. And it’s hard for me t...

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  • So i have spotify premium and ofcourse i download , specific , songs to listen to offline. But sometimes songs that i didn’t add to my library but are in the same album where i did download some s...
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Local Files will not Sync from Mac onto iPhone

Premium U.S. but currently studying in U.K. iPhone 8s Macbook Pro I have seen numerous posts on this in other threads, but all of the solutions I have seen did not work for me. I am on an iPhone and Macbook Pro. My downloaded songs appear on the Macb...

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  • ...ork for me.    I am on an iPhone and Macbook Pro. My downloaded songs appear on the Macbook and play fine, but do not show up whatsoever on my phone.   I have tried: - D...
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Frustrations with Download / Queue

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DeviceiPhone 8+Operating SystemiOS 10 My Question or IssueI use Spotify primarily to listen to podcasts. In an ideal situation, I would be able to have a list of just the episodes that I want to listen to out of all the podcasts...

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  • ...bsp; I haven’t been able to figure out a way to do this.   I can’t do this when I download podcasts. This is not editable other than to remove the podcast.    I can’t create a p...
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Solved!! No space for download

Hi, I’m using an iPhone 7. I’ve been using Premium for several years now, but since several weeks I cannot download any playlists anymore. I keep receiving an error message which says “All filled up.Epic collection, friend. There’s no more room in Yo...

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  •   Hi,  I’m using an iPhone 7. I’ve been using Premium for several years now, but since several weeks I cannot download any playlists anymore. I keep receiving an error message which s...
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Shuffle play not working

When I go to my playlist of over 1000 songs, then shuffle them, it consistently only plays within the first 50. All of the rest of my songs aren’t even in the queue. This only started happening recently; before it shuffled ALL of the songs without a ...

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  • When I go to my playlist of over 1000 songs, then shuffle them, it consistently only plays within the first 50. All of the rest of my songs aren’t even in the queue. This only started happening recen...
  • yourbigbonez
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Some local files won't download to iPhone

PlanPremiumCountry SwedenDeviceiPhone 8, 256GBOperating SystemiOS 12.1 My Question or Issue I upgraded from my old iPhone 6 to an iPhone 8 yesterday and had no problems re-downloading all my playlists etc. again, however local files are proving to be...

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  • ...roblems re-downloading all my playlists etc. again, however local files are proving to be a real headache. Most of the songs download, but some just won't transfer or play.   I had to completely r...
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