Spotify is finally bringing your friends’ Listening Activity to mobile
TL;DR
Spotify is officially launching its Listening Activity feature on mobile, allowing users to see what friends are listening to. The feature is opt-in and can be customized in privacy settings to share with specific friends.
Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability to creep on your friends' listening habits - but you could mostly only uncover those guilty pleasures on the desktop app. The company experimented with a community feature on the mobile app back in 2022, but it never officially launched. Now the company is finally bringing Listening Activity to the mobile app for real.
Listening Activity is opt in, rather than opt out, which is nice. To turn the feature on, you'll need to go into your privacy settings on the mobile app. You can even choose which of your friends to share your listening activity with, just in case you don't want to unfrie …