Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

(ALL ANDROID DEVICES)

Operating System

(Android all versions)

My Question or Issue

This isn't particularly a question, more-so than bringing it to your attention as the app store reviews are hardly seeing any response from spotify.

Basically, since your last update (v8.7.28.1217) on all android devices running all versions of android, the app has become a buggy mess that makes it so frustrating to use that I am considering changing to iPhone just to combat it.
These are just faults I have personally experienced.
- "your library" comes up black and doesn't load anything (Needs to be closed & re-opened to fix)
- When connected to AndroidAuto or playing through another device (i.e; Google Nest, a SmartTV, PC etc etc.) if you queue a song, it will either queue it MANY more times than you requested, queue it for a few seconds then it disappears and the entire shuffled playlist re-shuffles, it won't queue it at all, or a combination of all 3.
- When my phone (Pixel 6) is locked, the status/play-bar sometimes shows up, but even if it does, it rarely works.

- Randomly pauses songs when playing through the device or AndroidAuto

- When tapping to press ANY features on the screen when playing a song (and having that song UI up with shuffle/replay buttons on the screen) it will make all buttons disappear showing that video that a song will play, then you need to tap it again to bring them back and then once more to actually press the button you requested to press

- When searching for songs it will just sit there loading indefinitely (not a network issue as an app restart will immediately fix this)
- When not in mobile/wifi range, trying to navigate to my podcasts section, it will take an absurd amount of time to bring up podcasts. Switching to "offline mode" does make it quicker, but it's still slow for absolutely no reason. This is even still slow when connected to the internet. This same fault applies to searching for your already downloaded music when not in reception.

All in all, the app and service USE to be OK, now its a steaming pile of garbage.
This is JUST my issues on android. Don't even get me started with features non-existent on PC and things you've neglected to implement from community suggestions over 5 years ago or features that straight up don't even work.