Fine with me. I still resent Spotify for buying up podcasts and locking them behind their app.
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watchOS 9 Breaks Spotify Streaming, Apple Watch Users Urged Not to Update
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If only there was some process by which app developers could test their apps on upcoming software to sort out compatibility before that upcoming software released
Sadly there is no such process
Sadly there is no such process
I hear you, but that style actually catches a lot of flack for the platform developer (Apple, in this case.)
Reframing the situation slightly, something used to work on an old system but doesn’t work on a new system. We in these forums will nit pick it apart but to an end user it looks like this
1) Spotify working great!
2) Do update from Apple.
3) Spotify stops working as it should.
From their perspective the Apple update broke what was working and their reaction is “$@&% Apple.” Most users don’t know or care that betas exist let alone could blame the app dev for not testing on them.
Truly, this situation looks bad for everybody. So while Apple shouldn’t have to test Spotify it behooves them to do so to prevent upset users.
That's what i did literally because of this bug, but can't listen Spotify exclusive podcasts which is a big con.
You actually believe Apple has the resources to test 1.8 million apps for compatibility with new oses?
Thank you, this is the point the other poster seems to be missing. It's a CYA/PR move for Apple to do this.
If you do not like Spotify ads, you can still subscribe to their paid plan, same as Apple Music.
The sound quality is almost the same, with a few caveats: AM comes with the best audio quality out of the box, whereas in Spotify you have to tune it up in its settings. Once this is done, they sound very similar. AM also sounds better with the Home Pods, having a direct link to it, whereas Spotify goes in a roundabout way.
Better to wait for some time before updating. Not yet updated my devices.
It’s a tricky situation as a platform dev (which apple is in this case). From an end user perspective Apple is at fault. On watchOS 8 everything worked. After the update, Spotify broke. It looks like Apple broke it at first glance. From a PR perspective it is bad for apple (and also Spotify).
From my personal experience running other folks code that uses my code is some of the best testing out there. First, it lets me know real world scenarios are working. Synthetic tests are great but they miss stuff. Second, app devs will always use my code in ways I didn’t expect. The number of times I’ve said “yes, that should work but I never considered someone doing that…” Especially when writing library code and APIs.
My guess here is that Spotify was prolly using undocumented or unspecified code from Apple and when Apple changed it in wOS9 it broke. Unlikely I’ll get to hear the root cause though.
I read the headline saying "spotify stopped working on WatchOS 9" and my first thought was: did it ever work then? I've been struggling for over a year now to use Spotify on the AW with Airpods, and it's a miracle if I'm able to use it now and then. Usually downloading a small playlist to the AW is close to impossible, and even if I succeed, it will stop working in the next few days. And if that works, I'm having issues playing spotify over the Airpods.
I've complained many times in the Spotify Community up to the point that they simply blocked me from posting there, so that's how Spotify deals with bugs and complaints. The only solution they have is: reinstall everything, which of course doesn't work.
I've complained many times in the Spotify Community up to the point that they simply blocked me from posting there, so that's how Spotify deals with bugs and complaints. The only solution they have is: reinstall everything, which of course doesn't work.
That's fine, but you can't expect consumers to think past the surface level of "iOS update broke Spotify". These are the same people that think that when the newest iPhone drops Apple pushes out some tinfoil hat conspiracy update to kill their old devices. We're talking about the general public here, not tech forum dwellers.I'm not missing the point; I just don't agree with it.
Sure, I expect that. The user has the ability to contact the developer for support within the App Store. Based on app reviews, where users mention that updates break things, it appears they understand how this works.
This is bs. I just got my last month of spotify premium duo refunded over this and encourage others to as well. It was easy - just started a support chat and they took care of it in a few minutes.
Good advice. Spotify is a great service but they were incredibly late to the Apple Watch apps to begin with and then when implemented it has never really worked that well. It always takes fiddling with but this is ridiculous that Spotify can’t own that their developers are horrible. I’m super frustrated.