Spotify now lets you share what you’re streaming in real time with friends

Spotify is adding adjacent much societal features arsenic it seeks to support users from leaving the app to stock music. The institution connected Wednesday said it is introducing a caller Messages diagnostic that volition fto users spot what their friends are streaming successful existent clip and nonstop requests to commencement Jams, the app’s collaborative listening feature.

Users would archetypal person to navigate to their Settings and crook connected the “listening activity” diagnostic successful the “Privacy & Social” section. Once that’s done, your listening enactment volition look astatine the apical of Messages chats. You tin pat a friend’s listening enactment to play the track, prevention it, unfastened the menu, oregon respond with an emoji.

As for starting a Jam, Premium users tin pat the “Jam” enactment successful the apical close country to nonstop a petition to their friends. If the different idiosyncratic accepts it, they volition go the Jam host, and some users would beryllium capable to adhd tracks to a shared queue and perceive to euphony together.

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Listening Activity and Request to Jam volition rotation retired to the iOS and Android apps successful markets wherever Messages is available, and volition beryllium broadly disposable successful these markets by aboriginal February. Listening Activity is disposable to each users with entree to Messages, portion Free users tin articulation a Request to Jam league erstwhile invited by a Premium user.

Spotify notes that due to the fact that some of these caller features are disposable done Messages, they are lone disposable to users 16 and older.

The streaming level archetypal launched Messages successful August 2025 successful a bid to go a much societal app. While users person agelong shared Spotify links to euphony and podcasts extracurricular the platform, the caller messaging capabilities awesome a propulsion to support much interactions wrong the app arsenic the institution looks to summation idiosyncratic retention metrics and pull much paying users.

Messages connected Spotify tin lone beryllium sent to idiosyncratic users astatine the moment, and you tin lone chat with radical you’ve antecedently shared contented with, specified arsenic collaborators connected a playlist oregon participants successful a Jam oregon Blend. Messages are encrypted astatine remainder and successful transit, but they are not protected by end-to-end encryption.