Spotify ‘Community’ feature to allow users to see the real-time activity of friends

Spotify has confirmed that it is developing a new feature called Community that can allow mobile users to see what kind of music their friends are streaming in real time. This feature will also allow mobile users to see what playlists their friends have recently updated in a dedicated area of ​​the app, reports TechCrunch.

Although not publicly visible in the app at this time, mobile users can access this new Community feature by typing in “spotify: community” in the Safari browser on their iOS device, the report said.

The addition was first spotted by Chris Messina, who shared a video of this feature on Twitter earlier this month amid a long list of Spotify app updates.

The company offers the “Friendly Activity” feature on the desktop but has limited user access to that Friendly Activity on mobile devices.

Spotify said the feature was in the early stages of testing but declined to share further details.

The company’s roots as a social music streaming app had helped the company grow in the early days through its Facebook integration to build its friendship graph.

However, in the years that followed, Spotify focused more on personal aspects to make it more profitable than streaming rivals.