Spotify just added a feature no one really asked for (but you’ll probably use anyway)

Spotify’s been going all-in on social options currently, and its newest one is… surprising. It’s not one thing anybody actually requested for, however you may find yourself utilizing it anyway.

Spotify simply introduced a brand new in-app messaging function

As introduced through a post on Spotify Newsroom, Spotify introducing a direct messaging function that can permit customers to share music, podcast, and audiobook suggestions with different customers inside the app itself. Messages, which will likely be obtainable on cell units for each Free and Premium customers above the age of 16, is rolling out in choose markets this week.

If you usually need to share one thing you discovered on Spotify with a buddy, you need to hit the Share icon after which select one of many apps in your cellphone, like WhatsApp, Instagram, or Messenger, to ship the hyperlink (or copy the hyperlink manually and paste it right into a chat).

With Spotify’s Messages function, you may skip that additional step and share immediately with folks you have interacted with on the platform. This consists of folks you share a plan with or have linked with by Jams, Blends, or Collaborative Playlists.

You may additionally be capable of begin chats on Spotify with folks you realize and family and friends you have beforehand shared content material with. As soon as you have accepted a message request from somebody, you may react to their DMs with emojis and ship texts as you’d with another chat app. All shared songs, podcasts, and audiobooks will seem in a devoted Messages inbox, which you’ll be able to entry by tapping your profile picture within the top-left nook of the display.

Messages in Spotify would not appear to be such a foul concept in any case

Unusually, regardless of introducing an in-app messaging function, Spotify nonetheless encourages customers to proceed sharing by exterior platforms like Instagram, WhatsApp, and TikTok. The streaming large explains that Messages on Spotify is designed to “complement” these integrations moderately than substitute them.

Just like different apps, you may have the choice to just accept or reject message requests from family and friends, and also you’ll additionally be capable of report and block customers who ship undesirable content material. Apparently, you can too choose out of Messages completely by heading to Spotify’s Settings.

Although I did not actually see the attraction of the function after I first heard about it, it does appear to be a good suggestion. Having all of the suggestions you obtain, whether or not it is a track from a buddy or a podcast your sibling insists you take heed to, in a single organized inbox might prevent from scrolling by infinite chats on different apps simply to discover a single hyperlink. Messages on Spotify will begin rolling out this week in “choose” markets on cell units.