You can now share songs with friends through Spotify Messages

A product announcement graphic showing a smartphone screen with the Spotify app's new messaging feature. The screen displays a chat conversation where a song titled "Oras Na" by Kween Yasmin has been shared, along with the text "Wait what does this song make you think of 🧑‍🎄." The phone is centered against a dark background with multiple glowing green Spotify logos and chat bubbles floating around it. A yellow banner at the bottom reads, "You can now share songs with friends through Spotify Messages." The Unbox Diaries logo is in the top right, and social media handles for Unbox Diaries and TechBeans are at the bottom.

Yeah, so Spotify is finally doing it.

Yeah, so Spotify is finally doing it. They’re rolling out a new messaging feature so you can stop having to screenshot songs or copy links and jump into another app just to tell your friend, “You HAVE to listen to this.”

Now, when you find a banger, you just hit the share button and send it directly to your friend in a chat. You can send songs, podcasts, and audiobooks, plus text and emojis. It’s a way more seamless way to talk about the music without all the extra steps.

How It Works

A series of five smartphone screens showing the step-by-step process of sharing content from the Spotify app to a messaging platform. The first screen shows the Spotify app playing the song "Cherry Wine," with a share button highlighted. The second screen displays a sharing menu with various app icons, including WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, along with an option to search. The third screen shows the user searching for a contact and selecting them. The fourth screen depicts the user in a chat window, with the shared song link and a keyboard displayed. The final screen shows the shared content within the chat conversation, including the song's album art, title, and artist.
  • You can only chat with people you know. Spotify wants these to be authentic connections, so you can only message people you’ve already interacted with through things like Jams, collaborative playlists, or Family/Duo plans.
  • You have to accept a request. If someone tries to message you for the first time, you have to approve the message request before the conversation starts. This is a smart way to cut down on spam.
  • It’s mobile-only for now. No chatting from your desktop app just yet.

What About Privacy?

This is a good question, right? Spotify says messages are protected with “industry-standard encryption.” But here’s a key thing to know: it’s not end-to-end encrypted. They also have detection technology that scans messages for any harmful content, and their moderators can review anything that gets reported. You can block people and report messages, or even opt out of the feature entirely in your settings.

Why Spotify is Doing This Now

This isn’t the first time Spotify has tried a messaging feature; they got rid of one back in 2017. But the timing is way better now. They’ve realized that the real magic happens in conversation, not just in listening. This is their strategic move to become more of a social platform and keep us hanging out in the app for longer. Instead of you sharing a track to Instagram Stories, they want to give you a dedicated place to do that with your close friends. So yeah, for those of us who are always sending songs to people, this could be a total game-changer.

Now that Spotify has a built-in messaging feature, are you actually going to use it?

Let us know!

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