Spotify has launched an iMessage application quietly this week. The new app makes it simpler to share music with friends using iMessage. Spotify hasn’t actually announced the new app as yet but it’s quite similar in functionality to the Spotify app for Facebook Messenger which was released several months ago.
Spotify users can use the share button to easily share songs with their friends and family over iMessage. However, this action can only be down within the Spotify app so when the recipient gets the link to the song, they have to leave the iMessage app, open Spotify, and then listen to the song.
The Spotify iMessage app eliminates the need to leave the iMessage app. The app enables users to search for any track in the Spotify library from within iMessage itself and they can send a 30 second snippet of that song to the recipient which they can listen to in iMessage.
This feature has to be enabled by opening a conversation in iMessage, clicking on the App button on the left, and then enabling Spotify. Once the app is enabled, the Spotify icon needs to be tapped whenever the user wants to search for songs that they want to share.
The recipient receives a 30 second snippet of the song along with a link that takes them to the Spotify app if they want to listen to the entire song.
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