Spotify's new DM feature lets you chat with friends in-app now - here's how

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Spotify is adding a caller in-app messaging feature.
• Conversations are one-to-one with radical you know.
• The diagnostic is disposable for users 16 and older.

Spotify is getting a small much social.

Since you're already talking with your friends astir songs, audiobooks, and podcasts, the euphony streaming app is adding a caller feature that lets you nonstop backstage messages to different users wrong the Spotify app. The diagnostic is disposable for escaped and premium users ages 16 years and older. If you don't person it already, you should sometime this week. 

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Messages are one-on-one conversations, Spotify said Monday, wherever you tin stock Spotify contented with someone, and they tin respond with substance and emoji. You tin already stock Spotify contented to societal apps similar Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and TikTok, but the caller messages diagnostic keeps you wrong the Spotify app truthful you tin support listening.

How to connection idiosyncratic connected Spotify

To nonstop a connection to someone, pat the stock icon successful Now Playing presumption erstwhile listening to a song, podcast, oregon audiobook, take a friend, and deed send. 

Your suggested radical to connection are based connected factors similar whether you've shared Spotify contented with them before, joined Jams oregon Blends together, oregon made a collaborative playlist with them. Members of your Family oregon Duo program volition besides look arsenic suggestions since Spotify assumes you interact with them.

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If idiosyncratic sends you a message, erstwhile you judge the request, you tin respond with emoji, nonstop texts, and stock Spotify contented backmost and forth. You tin stock Spotify contented with and nonstop messages to radical you've interacted with earlier done Spotify, but if you haven't interacted with a friend, they volition person to judge the connection petition earlier seeing what you've sent.

You bash person the quality to study harmful oregon amerciable contented that goes against Spotify's presumption of use, and you tin besides artifact users from messaging you. Spotify said it volition usage "proactive detection technology" to scan messages for definite keywords, and quality moderators volition reappraisal reported content.

To entree your speech history, pat your illustration photograph successful the apical near corner. 

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