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Spotify is rolling out a way to share what you’re listening to inside Messages in real time. The two new additions—Listening activity and Request to Jam—aim to make remote listening feel more social and immediate, while keeping privacy controls front and center.
See what friends are playing and jump into a shared session
Listening activity shows your current track (or your most recent song when you’re idle) directly in Messages. It’s opt-in by design: nothing is shared until you enable it in Spotify’s Privacy & social settings. Only contacts you’ve already connected with in Spotify Messages can view your activity, and you can turn it off at any time. You can also see others’ activity even if you haven’t enabled yours—as long as they’ve opted in.
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Activity appears in the chat row of the side drawer and at the top of individual chats. Tap a friend’s listening card to add tracks to your library, open the track’s options, play it, or react with one of six emojis. It’s a quick way to discover what friends are into without leaving the conversation.
- Opt-in privacy: Enabled from Privacy & social in the app.
- Limited visibility: Only connected Messages contacts can see your activity.
- Quick actions: Add to library, open menu, react, or listen instantly.
Request to Jam builds on Spotify’s existing Jam feature by helping you coordinate listening with friends. If you’re in a Messages chat and you want to listen together, Premium users can tap Jam in the top-right to send a request for a remote Jam. If your friend accepts, they become the host and both of you can add tracks to a shared queue, message in sync, and listen together in real time. Invites will time out after a few minutes, and you can leave a Jam whenever you want.
Both features are launching to users in markets where Spotify Messages is available on iOS and Android, with broader availability expected by early February. Listening activity is available to all Spotify users, while Request to Jam is limited to Premium subscribers.
Want to make listening together feel less accidental and more intentional? With these updates, Spotify is nudging group listening toward the kind of in-the-moment social experience many of us miss when friends aren’t in the same room.
Source: gsmarena
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