Spotify 0.7.4 breaks Siri on iOS 7

[Gibbage]

I have discovered that when using the latest Spotify update on the latest iOS 7 beta, it stops Siri from working. I know iOS 7 itself is still in beta, but FYI the Spotify dev team might want to take a look at this.

The behaviour observed is that Siri launches OK, but doesn't "listen" to instruction. Spotify also stops playing and doesn't start again until the play button is pressed again manually. Killing Spotify reverts back to normal Siri behaviour.

[robzim737]

This is not just on ios 7.  It happens on ios 6 as well.

[Gibbage]

In that case this is a serious bug, since Siri is one of the headline features of iOS. Mods can you confirm that Spotify devs have been made aware of this?

[Taylor]

Hi, and welcome everyone!

I'll escalate this as an issue to the staff so they can look into it.

Anthony 🙂

[Richard]

Can you give us some clear steps to reproduce this?

We'll give it a go ourselves.

[robzim737]

I'm no longer able to reproduce it. On the day the original posted reported this, it happened every time I tried, and exactly as he described. It's been fine ever since for me though (after a dozen or so tests), so I assumed it was fixed at the back end. Maybe it's sporadic or just hard to trigger.

[robzim737]

I should add that the same was the case for the apparent bug in playing offline playlists over bluetooth- reported in a different thread on I think the same day. I've been using it daily without issue since then. Just the timing of when the two problems started and went away made me think they could be related.

[Richard]

It may have just been temporary - but it's worth us looking into still I think.

If we get any other reports we'd be interesting to to see them. Keep an eye out!

[Gibbage]

To recreate the problem, play a song in Spotify and go to the "now playing" screen
Now hold down the home button to bring up Siri, and most times on my iPhone 5 (although not every time) Siri will cancel immediately and go back to the "microphone" icon rather than listening for input.
The problem doesn't occur if Spotify is playing in the background.

[Richard]

I'm not running the iOS 7 beta so can't test this out myself. I can't reproduce it on iOS 6 at least.

@MattSuda - can you? 🙂

[MattSuda]

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@Richard wrote:

I'm not running the iOS 7 beta so can't test this out myself. I can't reproduce it on iOS 6 at least.

@MattSuda - can you? 🙂

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I'll check later today when I have time. 

[MattSuda · Accepted solution]

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@Gibbage wrote:
To recreate the problem, play a song in Spotify and go to the "now playing" screen
Now hold down the home button to bring up Siri, and most times on my iPhone 5 (although not every time) Siri will cancel immediately and go back to the "microphone" icon rather than listening for input.
The problem doesn't occur if Spotify is playing in the background.

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I am using the final GM version of iOS 7 and I cannot recreate the problem. 

[Gibbage]

I'm also now running the GM and can't recreate it. Looks like it was just a problem with earlier betas.

Thanks Matt for trying to test it.

[Richard]

Awesome, that's good to hear!

And thanks to Matt for the assist 🙂

[Gibbage]

And thanks to you too Richard 🙂

[Richard]

Locking this thread as solved.

Ping me if not 🙂