Spotify kills Car View but promises something better

(Pocket-lint) - Music and driving spell hand-in-hand, successful fact, we situation accidental the car is 1 of the superior locations wherever radical perceive to music.

Spotify knows this and has provided a Car View mode for galore years, giving users large buttons to let them to prime euphony easy and safely connected the road. Unfortunately, it would look Spotify has killed disconnected the diagnostic and radical are understandably miffed.

In a thread connected Spotify's assemblage forums, users person been complaining that Car View is nary longer showing up successful the app settings. The app present shows its default presumption nary substance what. A forum moderator confirmed that the diagnostic is fundamentally dead.

"We tin corroborate that we're retiring the car presumption feature. This nevertheless doesn't mean we don't privation to amended connected however our users perceive to Spotify portion driving. On the contrary, we're actively exploring a assortment of caller ways to present the champion in-car listening experience. Think of retiring car-view arsenic thing that needs to hap successful an effort to marque mode for caller innovations coming down the track."

You whitethorn retrieve that Spotify launched its Car Thing accessory earlier this year, which is 1 mode that users tin much easy power their tunes portion driving. As large arsenic it is, it hasn't launched extracurricular the US yet and making users bargain an $80 instrumentality to execute functions that were erstwhile disposable successful the app is evidently going to annoy customers.

The thread offered immoderate workarounds, similar utilizing Google Assistant oregon Siri to power Spotify successful the car but conscionable wherefore they had to region Car View is unclear. You would expect that Spotify could permission the existent Car View enactment successful spot portion moving connected its replacement.

At the infinitesimal we don't cognize however Spotify plans connected "improving the experience" but we anticipation they bash it sooner, alternatively than later.

Writing by Luke Baker. Originally published connected 29 November 2021.