Spotify announced a new ‘Listening Activity’ feature rolling out today in its iOS app. The feature lets you see what your friends are listening to at any given moment. Here are the details.
Here’s how Spotify’s ‘Listening Activity’ feature works on iPhone
Last year Spotify launched a new Messages section in its iOS app. And today the company debuted two new features rolling out for Messages.
Listening Activity will show you what friends and family members are listening to in real time, and allows you to share your own activity with others too. Users have to opt in before their listening data is shared with friends.
Here’s how Listening Activity works, per Spotify’s press release:
- Users can turn on listening activity via Privacy and social settings, accessible through the side drawer next to the “View profile” button.
- Once enabled, activity appears in the chat row of the side drawer and at the top of Messages chats.
- If a user taps on their friend or family member’s listening activity, they’ll be able to add tracks to their library, start playback, open the track’s context menu, or react with one of six standard emojis.
Today Spotify also launched a new ‘Request to Jam’ feature in Messages that works similarly to Apple’s SharePlay. Essentially, it’s a way to ask your friends to have a shared listening experience.
These two additions are rolling out starting today to users in markets where Messages is offered, and will be “broadly available” in these markets by early February.
What do you think of Spotify’s latest feature? Let us know in the comments.
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