It turned out that Spotify will integrate HealthKit into its app. In this way, the platform will create personalized playlists using users’ health data.
Spotify, the world’s most popular music platform, has many useful features such as personalized playlists. Now, the news shows that the platform plans to take a new step and offer even more personalized features to users.
According to product designer Chris Messina on Twitter, Spotify HealthKit will be able to integrate health data into the application. For those who don’t know, HealthKit is an iOS API that allows third-party apps to access data from Apple’s ‘Health’ app.
Health data can be used to create personalized playlists to listen to while you exercise
Spotfiy wants to further personalize users’ experience on the platform with the new feature. With the HealthKit integration, users can health data created with the help of playlists they can listen to while exercising Will have. In this way, Spotify will be able to access how much exercise the user does each day, calories burned and more. Messina discovered that the feature would come to the platform with a code found in the app.
Let’s talk a little more about playlists. According to Messina, the platform uses the health data it obtains as users exercise. will motivate will use it to recommend special songs to them. In this way, only the lists that are suitable for them will be created. For example, Spotify can select and recommend songs based on the types of workouts users have recorded or even their pace.
Spotify, which is in every application that uses HealthKit, will also ask users if they want to share the data. So if you don’t want to, your health data will not be shared with the platform. That’s all we know about the feature. It is unclear when Spotify will make this innovation available
Spotify plans to add a new page to manage subscriptions to its iOS app
Finally, Messina showed us that the platform plans to bring another innovation for iOS. Accordingly, Spotify is considering adding a new page to an app for iOS users to manage their subscriptions. In the shared images, it is also striking that users can no longer make changes to their subscriptions directly from the application. Spotify uses the following statements about this: “You cannot make changes to your plan in the app. We know this is not appropriate.”
While there is no information on this, the message is direct, according to 9to5Mac. to Apple and App Store may be aimed at. This is because of things Apple has implemented in the App Store. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek made harsh criticisms on Twitter in the past weeks and mentioned the company’s anti-competitive practices.
The giant music platform also has many times that Apple has received from every sale in the app store. 30% commission had criticized. It even complained about Apple to the European Commission in 2019. Apple last October rejected an update that allowed Spotify to sell audiobooks without using the App Store’s in-app purchase system.