Plan

Premium

Country

United State

Device

iPhone XR

Operating System

Latest iOS as of 5/18/22

My Question or Issue

Why did Spotify add a dark overlay to its canvas videos?

I like to screen record these canvas videos and share them to my instagram, but now that there's a dark overlay I'm forced to use the inhouse "Add to instagram stories" feature - as this is the only current way to remove the dark overlay from the canvas. This wouldn't be a problem, except that the imported video is only 7 seconds long. What if I want to post more than 7 seconds of video to my story? The answer is, I do, and to do so I'd have to export multiple canvases. It's time consuming and bothersome. Whereas I used to be able to just screen record a vibrant visual with perfect aspect ratios for iPhone screens, I now have to go out of my way to achieve what used to take 30 seconds tops. 

Not sure why this was necessary/implemented. If anything it's just made me annoyed because now I can't add to my stories in the way I'd like. On top of that the dark overlay just generally brings down the whole point of the canvas feature in my opinion - and I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. Why include a visual for a song if you're just going to make it seem like I'm viewing said video through a pair of shades that I didn't ask to wear? Just let me view the video the way it was intended to be seen...