Spotify offers a neat social integration to find and follow your friends on the music streaming platform. You can check their listening habits and browse their favorite new music, artists, and Spotify playlists. You can search for your friends via their username or connect your account to Facebook to find them on the go.
Over the years, Spotify has doubled down on social integration with features like Group Sessions, Spotify Wrapped, Collaborative Playlists, and Facebook setup. Whether you use Spotify Premium on a desktop, iPhone, or atop budget Android phone, you may easily add friends with or without Facebook.
How to add friends on Spotify without Facebook
If you don’t want to deal with the Facebook setup in Spotify, search for your friend’s name to add the person. The only issue is you may see several similar Spotify users popping up in the search bar, making it difficult to find the person.
Spotify desktop users can find their username using the steps below.
When you have your friend’s username, search it on Spotify, open their profile, and tapFollow.
How to add friends on Spotify with Facebook
You can connect your Facebook account to Spotify and pull up your friends list from the popular social media platform. You no longer need to deal with cumbersome Spotify usernames. Follow the steps below to find and follow your Facebook friends on Spotify. We start with mobile apps.
Spotify mobile apps
Spotify uses a similar user interface for iOS and Android. We use Spotify for Android in the screenshots below. You can follow these steps on Spotify for iPhone, too.
You’ll see your Facebook friends on Spotify. Add them to your friends list.
Spotify desktop
If you prefer Spotify Mac or Windows, check the steps below to explore Facebook integration.
Check friend activity on Spotify
You can check your friend’s activity pane from the Spotify desktop. Launch the Spotify web player and open the activity pane in the upper-right corner.
If you don’t see your friend’s listening activity, ask them to allow permission from Spotify settings.
If your friend started a private session, you can’t see their activity. Private sessions automatically end after six hours.
How to remove a friend from Spotify
You can remove someone from your friends list on Spotify.
Complete your Spotify setup
Apart from live friend activities, Spotify is packed with useful features like listening history, podcasts, private sessions, weekly playlists, and more. you’re able to alsodownload your favorite songs and playlistsbefore hitting the road on a long weekend.
However, the Spotify experience isn’t completely glitch-free. If you run into app crashes, audio quality problems, network connectivity issues, or missing playlists, check our dedicatedtroubleshooting guideto fix the problem.
