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Spotify's simplified Car

View mode is being 'retired'
The company says it's being done to make room for "new innovations."
D. Hardawar | 11.27.21
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November 27th, 2021
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you connected to
your car over
Bluetooth, it
would remove
extraneous
elements like
menu buttons and
album art. Instead,
it gave you large
buttons to pause
and play music;
jump to the
previous or next
track; or like a
specific song.
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you didn't get too
attached, as
Spotify has
confirmed it's
"retiring" the
feature, according
to a recent support
thread (via
Android Police).

A Spotify
moderator, who
was replying to a

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of new ways to
deliver the best in-
car listening
experience." They
added that
removing car view
is necessary to
"make way for
new innovations."
That's reasonable
enough, though it
doesn't excuse
dumping a
genuinely useful
safety feature
without a clear
replacement. 

The moderator
suggested using
Google Assistant
(or Siri on iOS) to
control Spotify
hands-free,
something that

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prioritizing Car
View simply
because there are
so many other
ways to handle
music playback in
cars. If you've got
a modern car with
CarPlay or
Android Auto
support, you'll
only be interacting
with your in-dash
display and will
never see Car
View in action.
Many vehicles
made in the last
decade also have
some sort of
media control on

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company is trying
to push people
towards Car
Thing, its $80
display accessory.
We found it to be a
useful upgrade for
older cars, but it
also seemed
superfluous when
you could just
mount your phone
and control
Spotify directly.
Without Car View
mode, though,
that strange

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