The iPhone and iPad Spotify app now includes home screen widgets
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Summary
Spotify—one of Apple's main rivals in both the latter's services strategy and in antitrust investigations—has released a new version of its iPhone app that supports home screen widgets, one of the flagship features of iOS 14.Last month's release of iOS 14 brought home screen widgets—previously only the domain of iPads and Android phones—to iPhones. Apple is likely to expand what developers can do with WidgetKit in future software releases, but there will always be some big limitations because of an emphasis on maintaining battery life.Lots of interactivity and live data from multiple apps on the home screen could have a negative impact there—that's probably why Apple and many devs have generally been conservative in terms of making widgets ultra-powerful.By contrast, the Android Spotify widget offers playback control.
As said here by Samuel Axon