Spotify’s new feature will surprise you; More complete than ever!
The new feature of the Spotify app takes the personalization of the user experience from this platform even one step further. See the details of Spotify’s future functionality below.
One of the winning cards of the Spotify music streaming service is the provision of playlists that perfectly match the musical taste of the users. While Spotify has already taken the personalization of the streaming experience to a new level, it plans to go one step further with a new feature. The company plans to use HealthKit to prepare playlists for users of its streaming service’s iOS app based on their health data.
HealthKit is a programming interface, or API, through which third-party apps can access data from Apple’s Health app. Chris Messina, a product designer who is always on the lookout for Spotify’s new features, recently claimed on Twitter that based on existing code, Spotify will soon be using HealthKit. In the near future, this music streaming program will find the ability to access information related to the health and sports of users. Among these information should be mentioned the amount of exercise of the user during the day, the calories burned and the distance and speed of the exercises.
Based on this data, Spotify suggests unique songs for each user to move them as much as possible during exercise. More precisely, Spotify wants to provide you with the new feature of its app “the right music for your exercise” depending on the “type of exercise, distance, duration and speed”.
It should be noted that all HealthKit-compatible apps must ask users for permission to share Health app data. Spotify is no exception to this rule, and if a user does not want to, it cannot access his health data and sports exercises. In any case, it is not clear at this point how Spotify will manage user data.
Spotify’s new functionality has not yet been made available to users. Of course, the Spotify company itself has not officially introduced it, and for this reason, the date of its presentation is still in an aura of uncertainty.