Plan: Premium

Country: USA

Device: iPhone 12 Pro Max

Operating System: iOS 14.4

My Question or Issue:

Ever since upgrading to Spotify 8.6.x, I have had problems with Spotify playing music in my 2020 BMW M340i with Wireless Apple Carplay.  The problem is that when the car first starts, it connects to my phone via Bluetooth and Spotify starts to play music, it says it is playing on device "BMW #####" (where the #'s are a random set of numbers).  Then once Apple CarPlay connects via Wi-Fi the audio cuts out and Spotify continues to play on device "BMW #####" - if I change Spotify to play on "This iPhone" instead then everything works fine - but in previous versions of Spotify I did not have to change this - it just would work automatically.

I already tried doing a clean install of Spotify (followed the directions by going into Settings -> General -> iPhone Storage -> Spotify -> Offload App then Delete, turning off iPhone, turning it back on and installing Spotify again) - I tried this multiple times and this did not fix the problem.

I tried different apps, specifically Amazon Music and YouTube Music and neither app had this issue - they both automatically started to play on CarPlay with no issues, so I do not think the problem is with my phone or its connection to CarPlay.

Would really appreciate it if Spotify could fix this and when connected to CarPlay - default to "This iPhone" as the output for audio.