Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR Spotify Messages now offers an opt-in Listening activity feature, allowing connected friends and family to see what you are playing in real-time.
A new Request to Jam button has been added to chats, making it easier to coordinate and start remote shared listening sessions.
The features are rolling out to iOS and Android users in markets where Messages is enabled. Group chat support is planned for the near future.
Spotify rolled out a Messages feature in August last year, and today, the company is expanding its functionality with Listening Activity and Request to Jam.
Listening activity is an opt-in feature that allows Spotify users to display the music they’re currently listening to within Spotify Messages in real-time. If you’re not actively listening, your most recently played song will be displayed instead.
Listening activity is visible only to friends and family you have already connected with on Spotify Messages. You can see others’ activity even if you haven’t turned your own activity on, as long as they’ve opted in.
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.
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