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TL;DR Spotify is making progress on the ability to change usernames, although you’ll be limited on how often you can switch.
The app also appears to be planning to expand bios from just artists to all listeners.
Users will be able to set limits on who’s able to see their bios.
Listening to music may sound like one of the most passive activities in the world, but when you build up a whole app around the experience, and start connecting users with sharing tools and interesting stats, the opportunity for that passive listening to evolve into a community really starts taking shape. Spotify as we know it today offers some basic social features, but it looks like the company’s hard at work on fleshing those out even further.
Back around the start of the year we first spotted work towards giving Spotify users a little more control over their in-app identify, with the app developing the ability to change your Spotify username. Considering the random string of characters most users have as their automatically set default name, that sounded like it could go a long way towards encouraging the use of the app’s social features.
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Digging into the changes present in Spotify’s recent version 9.1.54.1258 update, we’re getting a peek at how far along this effort has come. While it’s still not quite ready to go live, text strings in the app now start to shine a little more light on how name changes are going to work:
Code Copy Text <string name="edit_profile_social_handle_not_editable_dialog_message">You can only change your username twice within 14 days.</string>
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