In today’s world, the music industry has almost completely moved to streaming services, now few people buy CDs or records of their favorite musicians, everyone has subscriptions to their favorite artists, and they can listen to music where and when it is convenient for them. Also, with the development of music services, it became much easier to share your favorite music with your friends or see what your friends are listening to. One of the most popular services today is Spotify. So you better know how to find your friends in this application.
How to find people on Facebook
It’s easy to do if you’re friends with that person on Facebook. But first you need to make sure that:
- Your account is connected to Facebook.
- Your Facebook account has Spotify access enabled.
- The person you want is on your ‘friend list‘
If all of these conditions are enabled, then you can easily find your friends in Spotify, to do so:
- From the Spotify app, scroll down to the bottom of the ‘Friend feed’ pane on the right side.
- Click on the ‘Find Friends’ button and the list should show the people from your Facebook friends.
- Then just click ‘follow’ next to the person you want.
How to find people who aren’t your friends on Facebook
It can be a difficult task to find someone who is not your friend on Facebook. Or, for example, if you haven’t connected your Spotify account to Facebook. In that case, you would need to find the person by their username on Spotify. Or you can ask them to send you their Spotify URI or a link to one of their playlists where you can see them.
How to add friend on Spotify using desktop app
When you search for a person in Spotify, you need to know his username, since the username cannot be changed in Spotify, you don’t have to worry about not being able to find the right person. To find a friend in the desktop app Spotify, you need:
- Click on the search bar in the app or the web version of Spotify.
- Enter your friend’s username in this format — Spotify:user: username.
- Next, you’ll see the account of the person you want in front of you and can use the ‘Follow‘ button.
Your friend can find his or her profile name on his or her Spotify page through the web browser
Find friends with username on your Smartphone
The process of finding people on your smartphone is very similar to the one on the desktop app or Spotify web player, then there are a few steps you need to find your friends using your smartphone:
- Open the Spotify app on your iPhone or Android smartphone and click on the search button.
- Enter your username in the following format — Spotify:user: username and start the search
- If you’ve done everything correctly, you’ll see your friend’s profile on the screen.
How to find people without their usernames on Spotify
There is also a way to search for people without using the username. To do this, you need to know the person outside the Spotify system and ask them to send you a link to one of their playlists. They can share links to their playlists using the options in the ‘…’ button. Once you receive the link you will be able to see the author of the playlist. With this method, you can find the person without their username. At this point, it will be impossible to find someone who has not created playlists and without their username.
What to do if ‘Find friends’ option isn’t working
Sometimes it happens that the ability to find a friend does not work. Do not get upset, because further there will be several ways to solve this problem:
- If the ‘find a friend’ feature doesn’t load in the app, try restarting the app or logging out of your account and logging back in. If that doesn’t work, try reinstalling the app completely.
- If you get an error message from Spotify that it can’t load friends, then recheck your Facebook. Check if you have allowed Spotify to access your friends on Facebook. If this message keeps showing, it means that no one on your friends list is using Spotify or has connected their account to Facebook.
How to remove friends from your list on Spotify
Removing friends from your Spotify list is easy enough. You can do it from the desktop version of the app. Go to your friend’s account and hover over the ‘Following’ button, it will change to ‘Unfollow’ . Click on it and your friend will be removed from the list.
