[yehudalouis]

Love spotify, but I have always wondered about what seems to be an intentional choice re: their iOS client.

Certain actions related to the speakers/mic outside of the app itself cause music to stop playing, and be unrecoverable unless I reopen the app and tap play.

For example, if I am listening to Spotify, open iMessage, and accidentally hit the dictation icon, I now have to go into Spotify to start playing the music again. If I drag the hidden iOS control pane down, it says no music is paused, so I can't start playing it from there again.

Sounds small, but is super frustrating.

[kalleboo]

This happens to me with other music apps so I always assumed it was an Apple limitation

[Avamander]

There's no HomePod support either, also quite annoying.

[yehudalouis]

There is. Open the app, play a song. Tap the little Speaker button in the bottom right, near the scrub bar, Airplay & Bluetooth, select your HomePod. :)

[threeseed]

They are talking about Homepod Siri support.

It's one of the many examples of Spotify complaining about Apple, then when they are given APIs they can't be bothered to implement them in their apps.