Make Spotify pause when hearing voice note on Whatsapp/Telegram

[redboxpilot]

Hi All, I recently bought an S23. I previously had iPhone for the last 10 years and decided to give Samsung a chance.

So far I am really happy with the phone but this problem annoys me. Everytime I am listening to Spotify on the car/headphones or just on the phone and I want to listen to a voice note, the music on spotify doesn't pause but lowers its volume which makes it incredibly hard to hear the voice note. So I have to manually pause spotify, play the voice note and then play spotify again. That's really annoying! iPhone just paused the music, played the voice note and resumed the music when voice note is over.

Any way to do this on the S23?

Also, when I record a voice note and receive messages, the sound keeps coming and my voice notes are full of ringtones in the middle. This also didn't happen on iPhone and I find it really annoying, not to mention useless. Why would someone want a ringtone in the middle of their voice note? Even worse for the person receiving the voice note.

I'd appreciate if someone has a way to set this correctly.

Thanks!

[Bratnesti]

When I do this through the car, my spotify automatically pauses, so not sure if it's a phone issue or car issue?

[redboxpilot]

Hi Bratnesti, thanks for the reply. It also happens when I'm connected to my headphones. The volume of the music lowers and plays the voice note on top of the music which makes it impossible to understand the voice note.

So I assume it's not a car issue. I thought it could be something in the bluetooth settings but I haven't found any option to change it there either.

[Bratnesti]

Try this I know someone who had a similar problem and they said this solved it.

1. Go to "Battery" > "Battery optimization"

2. Select "All apps"

3. Find "Spotify" and select "Don't optimize"

[redboxpilot]

Hi Bratnesti,

Thanks for trying different solutions! I tried and I don't even have that option in the battery section. I have "Battery and device care" and inside it only the "Auto optimisation". Besides I managed to find battery optimisation for spotify, disabled it an nothing happened.

I also checked if this happens with the bluetooth disconnected, listening spotify on the mobile speaker, and same thing. Volume lowers when playing voice notes but not pausing. So it has nothing to do with the bluetooth; apparently is a Samsung/Android bug 😕.

I'll keep trying options as it makes it almost impossible to listen voice notes and let you know if something works. Hard to believe Samsung missed this and people use their phones like this!

[Pradofv]

Same problem here!..

[Nevski1983]

Всем Привет. Проблема в самом Spotify и android. Каким-то образом Spotify в приоритете