Spotify controls from lock screen😩

[Baby-Savage987]

Can someone please tell me how to control Spotify from the lock screen like on the previous model? It used to appear as a notification with the play, pause, forward, and rewind buttons, plus a slider to scrub through the song. I HATEEEE the now bar and that it sits between the bottom quick access buttons😩

[LongHiker]

@Baby-Savage987 If you double click the now bar on the lock screen you can access those controls. 

[KennBauer85]

Now if only those controls allowed people to put the media player controls back to how they were. The Now Bar is a **bleep** design that wasn't needed.

[Robin621k · Accepted solution]

On the lockscreen just tap on the media player, it will expand.

On the AOD its a double tap for controls.

[KennBauer85]

That's not a solution, it's an added step every time.

[Robin621k]

Oh, the horrors of first world problems !

[Kazuka]

If you got no usefull advices which solve the Problem people have. Don't answer at all. Many Spotify/Android user are annoyed by the new Update. It doesnt benifit anything, it was just bad in many ways.

[Robin621k]

Just put a Spotify widget on your lockscreen!

[Jherendeen19]

I hate it also, I'm glad I'm not the only one. It makes pausing quickly while I'm at my desk almost impossible. Now there's an extra step that didn't need to be there 🙄

[Robin621k]

Just press the pause/play button!