Spotify introduces an iPhone Lock Display screen widget for simple entry to its app

Spotify is embracing the iOS Lock Display screen. The corporate announced in the present day it’s introducing a brand new iPhone Lock Display screen widget to all customers working iOS 16 or later that permits you to faucet on Spotify’s icon to launch the app immediately earlier than unlocking your cellphone.

Help for Lock Display screen widgets rolled out with iOS 16’s release last fall as a solution to put glanceable info immediately on the cellphone’s display screen as both spherical or rectangular widgets under the date and time or as a line of textual content simply above it. Quite a lot of developers both large and small have been fast to leap on board with Lock Display screen widgets, together with main tech firms like Google (together with YouTube), Facebook, Snap, and others. However Spotify had not.

Whereas largely meant as one other solution to join individuals with info from their apps, some Lock Display screen widgets will also be used as shortcuts that launch apps immediately. That gives faster and simpler entry to the apps you utilize probably the most. For instance, one in all Google’s widgets helps you to kick off a search proper from the iPhone’s Lock Display screen.

In Spotify’s case, the app will merely open the Spotify app — saving you the time of unlocking your cellphone after which discovering the app icon or widget and tapping it. This may be helpful if you need to leap into your music or podcasts whereas on the go or within the automobile and don’t have time to swipe by apps and screens.

Earlier than, customers who needed Spotify on their Lock Display screen had been making the most of third-party widget customization apps, like Widgetsmith, to create their very own widgets.

Aesthetically, Spotify’s rounded icon additionally makes for a great match alongside different widespread round icons that adorn customers’ Lock Screens, just like the default climate and exercise widgets from Apple, for those who care about that form of factor.

So as to add Spotify’s new widget, you press and maintain your finger down in your Lock Display screen to make the “Customise” button seem on the backside. Faucet this to be taken to the realm the place you possibly can select so as to add widgets and search for Spotify within the alphabetical record. You possibly can then faucet on Spotify or drag the widget so as to add it to the Lock Display screen and exit the customization screens.

Along with the brand new Lock Display screen widget, the corporate helps different widgets together with two sizes of Dwelling Display screen widgets for simple entry to your most not too long ago performed music and podcasts. It additionally helps Apple’s Dwell Actions, which places music controls on the backside of the Lock Display screen if you’re actively utilizing the app.

Spotify notes that you simply’ll must replace its iOS app to the newest launch to realize entry to its new Lock Display screen widget characteristic. Customers have to be on iOS 16 or later to make use of these kind of widgets, as nicely.