Spotify incident

Apple Watch redirects to iPhone when selected as playback device

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Spotify experienced a major incident on December 25, 2025 affecting Service, lasting 159d 3h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Dec 25, 2025, 12:21 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 02, 2026, 04:01 PM UTC
Duration
159d 3h
Detected by Pingoru
Dec 25, 2025, 12:21 PM UTC

Affected components

Service

Update timeline

  1. investigating Dec 25, 2025, 12:21 PM UTC

    We’ve been receiving reports from users that when they try to select their Apple Watch as the device to play on, it keeps redirecting them back to the iPhone.

  2. resolved Jun 02, 2026, 04:01 PM UTC

    Status changed to: Fixed