What to Do When Spotify Keeps Losing its Connection
Spotify cutting out at random, or at oddly regular intervals, is almost never a case of an out-of-date Spotify app. Streaming audio needs a decent amount of bandwidth held steady, and when your internet connection drops for a few seconds Spotify loses its link to the music and stops.
Speedify is an app that moves your internet traffic across Wi-Fi, 4G/5G cellular, wired Ethernet, Starlink and other internet connections at once, so a drop-out on one internet connection does not reach your music. With only one connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and cannot stop that connection from dropping. See why Spotify keeps dropping out, and how using Speedify keeps your listening steady and private.
How to Keep Spotify Connected with Speedify
- Download Speedify on your iPhone or Android phone.
- Open Speedify and create a free account (the free tier includes 5 GB per month), or sign in.
- Keep Wi-Fi on and turn on 4G/5G cellular too, so Speedify has two internet connections to work with.
- Connect. Speedify uses both connections at once and moves your traffic to the working one when one drops.
- Open Spotify and play your music as usual.
Why Spotify Keeps Dropping Out or Losing Connection
First, rule out the app and the phone: update Spotify, restart your phone, and check whether Spotify is down on a status site such as Downdetector. If Spotify loses your Bluetooth speaker or car stereo while the app itself stays online, the Bluetooth link is the problem, not the internet. When Spotify streams your favourite music, it needs a steady flow of data from your Internet connection, so when Spotify keeps dropping out, look at your Internet connection next. It might be that your Internet connection is too slow and doesn’t have enough bandwidth for audio streaming, or that the connection is flaky and losing data along the way (packet loss).
What’s worse, is that both of these issues are often amplified when you are on the move since mobile devices can not easily transition between different Wi-Fi networks or cell towers without interrupting apps and dropping streams, such as the ones from Spotify.
Regardless of the root cause, by default mobile devices are designed to only use one Internet connection at a time, despite the fact that they are often connected to both Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular. But, what if you could use BOTH connections for their combined speed and reliability?
How Speedify Keeps Spotify Playing When One Connection Drops
Speedify works as a secure VPN that keeps no record of the sites you visit, and it changes the way your devices connect to the Internet. Instead of just using one connection, Speedify allows your iPhone or Android smartphone to connect to the Internet over both Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular simultaneously. That adds bandwidth and reliability, so a drop on one connection does not stop your Spotify stream.
Speedify also monitors the quality of your internet connections. When it detects that a signal is weak or that the network is too slow, Speedify reroutes the data through the other working connection. When the other connection is back online and reliable, Speedify begins using it again, automatically and in the background.
Secure your Spotify streaming further with Speedify
In addition to delivering a faster Internet experience to your mobile and desktop devices, Speedify encrypts all the data sent to and from your device. Speedify keeps you safe from compromised Wi-Fi networks, snooping ISPs, and other threats. To keep 4G/5G cellular use down, you can set cellular to Secondary priority and give it a data cap in the Speedify app, so Speedify leans on Wi-Fi and adds cellular when the Wi-Fi is not enough.
Solved: Spotify Keeps Disconnecting
With Speedify and two internet connections, a drop on one does not disconnect Spotify, whether you’re at home, in the office or on the train. If Spotify is blocked where you are, see how to get Spotify unblocked. Get started with Speedify now for FREE: the free tier includes 5 GB per month with a free account.
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