When I open Spotify it mutes other audio streaming

[Pertul]

Plan

Premium

Country

Sweden

Device

iPhone 13

Operating System

iOS 16.1

My Question or Issue

There is an error with the app in iOS.

As soon as ypu open the Spotify app it mutes other streaming audio sources.

So if I am listening to radio in another app and want to go in to Spotify and just add a song to a playlist, it will directly close audio from my radio app. Same with all apps playing audio, they will all be killed as soon as I start Spotify. And even if I do not play anything in Spotify it mutes all audio, so I hear silence. 

No other music app I have does this.

Please fix so it does not kill other audio apps playing / streaming audio when you just open Spotify.

You may want to just open the app and add a song etc without playing from Spotify at that time.

It should only take over as audio source when you press play on something in Spotify, like other audio apps behave.

Thank you.

[scwebb93]

Updated. Behavior is unchanged.

[Maria]

Hey everyone, thanks for the reports!

As it seems some of you are still experiencing issues, we'll pass this on to our tech folks so they can look into this further.

In the meantime, it would be great if you could confirm the following (if you haven't already):

• Current Spotify version.
• Make, model and OS version of your device.
• Does this happen at any specific points? For example, directly when opening the app or only after clicking the Search tab.

We'll keep an eye out for your replies!

[AU0]

So much disrespect for the user: force something undesirable, deny the
problem, claim ignorance, gaslight, falsely claim a solution, take years
and years and years and still nothing.

[mallinckrodt]

The issue still exists. 

As soon as a video starts auto-playing, all other streaming apps are stopped (radio, YouTube, etc).

Even with data saving mode enabled videos will start auto-play (I believe this was a workaround before the update). 

Please add an option to NOT auto-play videos/gifs, on the search screen or anywhere else. 

iPhone 11, iOS 18.5

Spotify version 9.0.66

[dr_michael]

update to my previous message a couple of days ago

autorun tiles appeared again in search tab as well, and they still break playback from other sources

[1ca1]

Definite dark pattern here.