What's up with this new Home screen?

[soboyle]

Whats up with the new home screen being random playlist? Its really bad, can I change it back?

[mrscully97]

Hello,

The newest UI rollout from Monday September 26 has been a rather nauseating adjustment. To start the new home screen is now riddled with large tiles that take up far too much screen real estate. Now rather than being able to select recently listened album or playlists along with seeing my daily mixes and other recommendation playlists in one screen I have to scroll for minutes on end to find what I want. I don't pay for this subscription because I want more screen engagement, I pay because of the simplicity in finding my music and being able to enjoy it in the background without needing to continually dig through my phone. As well, there seems to be an incessant desire to promote podcasts regardless of how often they're listened to

[mrscully97]

Continuance: I don't use Spotify for any other podcasts than JRE. Other than that I want my music on demand and the new UI on home screen has made my user experience less than pleasing. The wild evolution from one version to the other on regard to the home screen has frankly felt lazy, disengaging, and unthoughtful.

[#4]

My homepage changed two weeks ago and is now a vertical list of random playlists instead of the original homepage display everyone else has on theirs. How do I get my old display back?

[#5]

Spotifys home page on the app updated so it does the thing to try and get me to listen to new content but I really enjoyed the other home page better. I felt like it showed me new music pretty often and it was really useful to easily switch back and forth to what I’m listening too. I don’t like this new page at all and I would like to be able to toggle it. This new page feels clunky and it’s showing things that I might have listened too years ago which isn’t very helpful to aiding my experience.

[Vasil]

Hey folks!

Thank you for taking your time to post in the Community! We've merged a few threads here to keep the place tidy 🙂
As @dsdsdsdsds has mentioned, in case you're seeing what is shown in the linked thread, beware that this is a temporary test.
Any feedback on the matter is, of course, appreciated.
Thanks for understanding!

[meggy1]

Hi, Where can I send feeback. This new update is terrible and I want to opt-out of all future UI trials. The app is completely unusable and needs to be changed!!

[clemsontiger]

Where did the "new releases" section go? It's completely gone. 

Edit: Nevermind, I found it, but not as intuitive.  I had to put my cursor into the "What do you want to listen to?" search box for spotify to take me to the search screen where it has the "Browse all" and then am able to see the "New Releases" section.  While I recall it was previously also under a Search area, I believe you had a specific navigation menu link to get to it or similar. In this scenario, I wasn't wanting to search for a specific term but instead wanted to generally search the categories, specifically the "New Releases".  Feels strange to have to "being a search" in order to find the categories for browsing all.

How about a shortcut to the "Browse All" sections in the left panel menu (desktop)? or an icon link to the right of the search box in the top header that takes one to the "Browse All" ? Simple enough and you have the space...

[mattkrieg]

Please bring back a screen where I can just scroll through all new albums released each Friday -- and make it easy to navigate to. This update is v confusing.

[lopezashley101]

Hi all,

Is there anyway to get this new update reverted? Why is everything on my home screen so big?!? I thought I accidentally enlarged the app but unfortunately its just the new update. I have logged off and then back on to try and fix the new UI on my home screen. I also deleted the app and reinstalled it but nothing works. It has come to the point where I do not even use the Spotify app on my phone and instead use my computer. This new UI is weird because I am on a family plan and other members on my plan do not have the same issue. I am paying for Spotify and should be happy with my service but am not. The new update makes it hard to find music and listen to albums. I have to do a ton of searching now. Such a waste of time and not user friendly at all. Please help!!!

[Row1]

As this is a test and you're looking for feedback, I'll chip and say I'm also really not enjoying the new home page layout. The panels seem like they're mostly trying to get me to re-listen to stuff I've already recently had on my radar. No daily mixes, new releases or anything exciting. Looks and feels very boring and makes finding the music I actually want to listen to really tough!

[jrpagenkopf]

The new home screen on the mobile app (Android) is significantly worse than the previous version. The old version you had dozens of album and playlist suggestions at the swipe of a finger. Now there's only two recommendations on the screen at once, and usually half of them are playlists I already made and know about, or podcasts I don't listen to.

The quick access to a wide variety of music is gone, which means I have to scroll more on my own to find something to listen to, and makes me question using the service. Bring back the old home! (Or at least give users a chance to toggle between classic and new home.)

[marwin]

So you are testing things without a way to opt out? I don't want to pay to be in a test. If I pay for something I expect it to work. And right now, thanks to your test, I’m paying for something that doesn't.

[Annie_Fratelli]

I’m not averse of changes but this one feels like a million steps backwards. This new design is a complete waste of space, it is confusing, I cannot find anything. I was used to find new music all the time, there was always something exciting in my home page now is completely useless and annoying. It’s the first time in nine years that I’m not loving the app and the first time I seriously am considering changing to other music streaming services. Too bad, please please revert this app to previous versions!

[LEMONFRESH]

Why are we paying you to be testers??? Find your own testers for your stupid homepage. IT SUCKS AND YOU HAVE TO KNOW IT!!! VERY TERRIBLE AND NEVER SHOULD OF BEEN PUSHED THROUGH! DO SOMETHING OR SAY SOMETHING! 😕 THESE PEOPLE( your customers) WANT YOUR DEVELOPER TERMINATED! 

[dr_funkalicious]

It's absolutely terrible, makes it impossible to find anything on the home screen

[KevinDDillon]

"looks like you e been affected by our changes" yeah we have, Change it back you **bleep**

[KevinDDillon]

I hope you get a horrible disease 

[KevinDDillon]

Here's some feedback, of you're going to add a feature, don't have it be the antithesis of your premium service

[KevinDDillon]

Please change it back, I'm having an unendingly horrible week and now I can't even listen to music without feeling genuine distress. I DIDN'T CONSENT TO THIS TEST! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK, I AM LITERALLY BEGGING YOU!!!! 

[Patclifton]

+1