This Apple TV app is far more helpful after its most up-to-date replace

For a very long time, the Spotify app on Apple TV has lagged behind Apple Music, however with its newest replace, Spotify is lastly closing that hole.

The music streaming large introduced that it has fully redesigned the Spotify app for Apple TV, saying it has been “rebuilt from the bottom up for a sooner, smarter, extra visible expertise.”

Earlier than this replace, the Spotify app on Apple TV had an outdated design in comparison with its cell variations and was lacking a number of key options. Fortuitously, with the current replace, Spotify has mounted many of those points and added lots of its high cell options to the tvOS app.

Beginning with the person interface, Spotify has redesigned and optimized it particularly for tvOS, making it a lot simpler to browse music and discover your playlists in your TV. Notably, Spotify has additionally added video help in its tvOS app, permitting you to look at podcast movies and music movies, and you’ll modify the playback pace of both.

Whereas podcast movies have been broadly accessible on Spotify for some time now, music movies are nonetheless in beta and have not expanded to the US or Canada but. While you’re listening to a podcast or music, it is best to see a “change to video” immediate seem in your display if video is out there.

When you have the Spotify app on Apple TV, you may manually replace it by means of the App Retailer now to get the most recent model. For these with computerized updates turned on, it is best to obtain the replace by mid-November for those who do not manually replace it.

Spotify’s greatest cell options have lastly come to Apple TV

Spotify Join and Spotify DJ at the moment are accessible

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Whereas the person interface replace is interesting and video help is good to see, I consider the perfect enhancements on this replace are the cell app options which have lastly arrived on tvOS.

Particularly, Spotify Join is now accessible, permitting you to manage Spotify playback in your Apple TV out of your cell machine and synchronize what you are listening to throughout all of your gadgets. This characteristic has been accessible on cell gadgets, PCs, and Android TV for a very long time, so it is shocking that the tvOS app has solely now gained it, however higher late than by no means, I suppose.

Moreover, now you can handle your audio queue extra effectively with the flexibility to skip to any monitor you want, and now you can view lyrics as effectively, making it simpler to sing alongside along with your TV.

Spotify has additionally launched its AI DJ within the newest replace, permitting you to obtain customized music suggestions with AI voice commentary. I actually take pleasure in utilizing Spotify DJ, because it gives a fantastic mixture of my numerous music tastes, so it is good to see it delivered to Apple TV.

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Spotify’s long-overdue app replace for Apple TV arrives at a key second. First, Spotify is rising its video content material throughout podcasts and music movies, so updating its Apple TV app to help each aligns with these goals. Second, rumors recommend Apple plans to launch a new Apple TV 4K box with upgraded {hardware} earlier than the 12 months’s finish, so when that occurs, Spotify’s app will already be prepared.

For those who personal an Apple TV 4K, you may try the redesigned Spotify expertise for tvOS now by going to the App Retailer and manually updating the app.