Spotify and Google Maps customers on iOS units are going through a irritating state of affairs the place the useful integration between the 2 apps is just not working. The favored function, designed to streamline music management whereas navigating with Google Maps, has out of the blue developed a mysterious glitch over the previous few days.
Experiences throughout a number of on-line boards (1,2,3,4,5) element how makes an attempt to attach Spotify with Google Maps throughout the latter are actually met with a big “X,” abruptly ending the method. Customers are then kicked again to Google Maps with the discouraging message, “Can’t attain Spotify. Please test your web connection and check out once more.” Under is a pair of screenshots displaying these errors throughout my testing.
This subject with Spotify not working with Google Maps appears just about new, with studies having solely began showing this week. It impacts iPhone customers even on the newest secure launch of iOS 17.4, one thing I can affirm having did some assessments on my iPhone. Essentially the most up-to-date variations of each Spotify and Google Maps apps additionally fail to resolve the issue, but they’ve been round for a minimum of every week.
There’s additionally no workaround and neither Google nor Spotify has formally acknowledged the damaged integration with Google Maps. Hopefully, highlighting this subject will immediate a swift investigation and repair from both firm. Till then, iOS customers should handle their music and navigation individually – a particular downgrade within the driving expertise.
We are going to keep watch over extra developments and replace this text as soon as both firm acknowledges the glitch.
