By: Megat Harris Iskandar
“Same issue here. When listening to
the Spotify app directly, I can use the steering wheel/radio controls to skip
or pause a song. However, when listening to Spotify through Android Auto, the
steering wheel buttons do not respond. I am able to skip/pause using the phone
screen,” someone says in a post on Google’s forums.
The issue was first reported in
December, though it’s still not clear if Android Auto is the one to blame or
the culprit is a recent Spotify update for Android devices.
In the meantime, the good news is
users can fix the whole thing themselves, and it all comes down to a simple
downgrade of the app. In other words, you need to remove the latest version of
Spotify and go back to an earlier release, as the issue appears to impact only
the most recent update of the music service.
One user explains on Google’s forums
that the latest version known to work correctly on Android Auto, and therefore
allowing music playback controls via the steering wheel buttons, is 8.5.85.0,
which was shipped in mid-November, so what you need to do is uninstall the
current build, head over to this page to get the old version APK, and then
manually install Spotify on your device.
Needless to say, you also need to
block app updates from the Google Play Store to make sure Spotify doesn’t get
updated to the latest version.
Neither Spotify nor Google acknowledged
the problems so far, so you’d better not hold your breath for an official fix.
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