Spotify is finally bringing your friends’ Listening Activity to mobile

Since almost time one, Spotify has offered the expertise to creep connected your friends’ listening habits — but you could mostly only uncover those blameworthy pleasures connected the desktop app. The institution experimented pinch a organization characteristic connected the mobile app backmost successful 2022, but it ne'er officially launched. Now the institution is yet bringing Listening Activity to the mobile app for real.

Listening Activity is opt-in, alternatively than opt-out, which is nice. To move the characteristic on, you’ll request to spell into your privateness settings connected the mobile app. You tin moreover take which of your friends to stock your listening activity with, conscionable successful lawsuit you don’t want to unfriend your aged assemblage buddies, but don’t request them to know really overmuch you perceive to Caspar Babypants now that you’re a dada of two.

In the mobile app, you’ll spot what group are listening to successful your sidebar alongside your chats. And, if thing sparks your interest, you tin quickly pat the opus to adhd it to your library, aliases respond pinch an emoji.

As portion of this update, Spotify is besides adding a Request to Jam feature. Premium users tin pat the Jam fastener successful a chat to nonstop a petition and, if the personification accepts, their listening is remotely synced. From there, you tin some queue up songs and chat to stock your reactions. Spotify will moreover propose songs based connected your shared tastes. If you’re a free user, you tin subordinate a jam if you’re invited, but you can’t initiate a request.

Both features are rolling retired connected iOS and Android now successful markets wherever messages are available. But Spotify appears to beryllium taking its clip pinch this launch, saying it will beryllium “broadly available” successful early February.