iPhone users can also use Siri for the same thing. Meanwhile, Spotify suggests that users can use the app in the car hands-free via Google Assistant. Think of retiring car-view as something that needs to happen in an effort to make way for new innovations coming down the track,” wrote a Spotify moderator. On the contrary, we’re actively exploring a variety of new ways to deliver the best in-car listening experience. Car mode shows you larger icons in the player, like the play/pause button, the skip button, and more. This however doesn’t mean we don’t want to improve on how our users listen to Spotify while driving.

“We can confirm that we’re retiring the car view feature. of managers 50 self-driving cars 6 street view technology 116 Trends 92. Currently, there are no plans to replace it with anything quite yet. D (CEO, Spotify) 35 employment: jobs under threat from automation 1314. Hopefully, by getting rid of the flawed “Car View” feature, Spotify will be able to figure out a better and probably safer feature to replace it with. We use the Spotify streaming service which allows for remote control from. I honestly didn’t even see that Spotify added a small fine print note saying that I can toggle off the option in Settings… because why would I read any fine print if I’m in my car? From a logistical perspective, the car is readily instrumented with cameras.

In the end, I would switch off “Car View” almost every time. Instead of me knowing where a button automatically is, I have to spend a few seconds trying to figure out where the repeat button is (newsflash… there isn’t one on the “Car View” interface). We can confirm that we’re retiring the car view feature. Second of all, when I do look at the Spotify app in my car ( ehem… stopped and somewhere safe, of course) I can never get over how different the interface is compared to the regular non-“Car View” interface. Spotify confirmed this weekend that it is retiring the Car View feature of its mobile app, which made it easier to use while driving.

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