Constant "now playing" notifications on Android while streaming on PC?

[illclairvoyant]

So, I noticed the other day Spotify kept starting up on my phone (Galaxy S6) and showing notifications of what was playing (while I was streaming music on my PC). I cleared the notification, but every time the song changes the notification pops back up.

I have gone through the settings on my PC as well as my phone and can not find a way to stop it from updating every time the song changes.

Does anyone know a way to turn this off? I have tried Googling, but the only solution I can find is to log out on my phone - which I shouldn't have to do.

[ellieelric55 · Accepted solution]

If you go into settings on your Galaxy and enter the notifications menu, you can turn off notifications for Spotify, and it should stop doing that. Hope this helps. 🙂

[illclairvoyant]

This will work. I didn't want to disable all notifications, but until a better solution presents itself this will do. Thanks!

[jamesdeluk]

Has anyone found a way to disable this properly? I don't mind the notification, but the constant updating is wasting my data.

[AckNak]

I just gave the app 1 star and uninstalled it. Good riddance... but then again, I don't pay the subscription, so easy choice for me to make.

[SamSMcLaughlin]

I'd like to know this, too. It's really annoying when I'm at work and my partner is playing something on our Bose (wifi) speaker at home. Granted, I can mess with her music from the office, but I hate the constant pop-ups. Worst of all, it drags my Genius into it, so now I'm getting two push notifications every time.

[Skillzore]

I have the exact same issue. When my wife is home and starts playing music on the PC, I get a notification. That's fine. But when I clear it, it comes back as soon as the song changes. I am hoping that this is not the intended behavior, because it is really annoying. Especially, since I am using my phone to watch Netflix on my commute to and from school and getting a Spotify pop-up every 3-5 minutes is really disturbing when you are trying to watch a series.

Fix this. In the meantime I am turning notifications off completely. 

[Joemommaspotify]

It is March 2018... Any fixes. I have a Note 8 and have even put Spotify into always sleeping, but when I fire up Spotify on another device the notification comes on my Note 8. I have to force stop Spotify. More than annoying, the notification is running the app service in the background taking system resources and battery life. I've seen hits as high as 5%. That is significant and unnecessary. Also, with Always On Display the song title playing is there too.

This has only been happening with the latest Spotify releases..Notice that when I am using the phone the notification goes away after a while. It's when I turn the screen off and back on again, there is Spotify again! I even disabled notifications on the lock screen. Still pops up..Yes, I can disable notifications altogether but when I am actively using the app on my phone I would like to have the controls there. Spotify has coded something very aggressive where the app is running like all the time! Not cool. 

[vj_ithildin]

I have the same problem, it's definitely not "Solved". When I play songs on my PC, the app on my phone starts up and runs in the background, displaying pop-ups every time the song changes and setting the album picture as background for my lockscreen. 

Disabling notifications is a short-time fix, but I don't want the app to eat up my battery when I don't even use it. As a workaroud I now sign out of the app when I don't use it, but dear Spotify, could we have a _real_ solution please?

(8.4.39.673, Android)

[gpopesc]

I don't know why spotify is not solving this, it really drains the battery.

One work around solution would be to freeze the aplication or another one to make a new account ...unless you are not on premium account,

[Popsac]

This is one of my biggest complaints with the program.  Been a user for almost 8 years.  What does it take to get spotify to fix this? Turning off notifications means when I actually do use my phone, I have to keep the app open instead of using the notification tab to play next song or pause.  Extremely annoying.  

[user-removed]

I'm not sure this is a real solution, but it appears to be better than blacket turning off all of Spofiy's notifications.

For devices running Android Oreo (or newer), go to:

• Settings (main cog at top right of notification tray)
• Apps
• Application List
• Spotify
• Notifications
• And disable the Playback notification

This way you still get the rest of Spotify's notifications, but you deny the service the right to run these ones