Who Me Too'd this topic

Operating System

iOS

Spotify version

8.6.20

My Question or Issue

With the most recent update to Spotify’s iOS App, the ability for 3rd party apps to read Spotify’s now playing information using the iOS SDK has broken and the app no longer allows connecting as reliably as before.

This also affects demo app so let me explain what’s going on:

If the demo app is opened quickly after Spotify, it’s able to connect fine as Spotify app is still not backgrounded, but if Spotify gets backgrounded, no further connections are allowed. So basically that’s the bug.

Same thing happens with our app too, but since we have added a delay on connection, our app doesn’t fire connection request before Spotify gets backgrounded. The delay was really added due to another bug that users were facing and adding the delay used to connect more reliably.

Previously, as long as Spotify app was playing music in the background, it was possible to connect to the app using the iOS SDK.

It’s affecting many of our users and probably many other apps. I hope it gets fixed soon.