How to Add Spotify Widget to Your iOS 14 Home Screen

As we've been talking about all week, a wide variety of iPhone apps have rolled out powerful iOS 14 home screen widgets. Spotify, the popular music streaming app, hasn't updated itself. its iOS app with widgets support, but there is a third-party app available that brings Spotify widgets to your iOS 14 home screen.

One of the flagship features of iOS 14 is support for Home screen widgets. A variety of Apple apps support Home screen widgets, including the Apple Music app. The Music app widget comes in three sizes, making it easy for you to see recently played songs, albums, and playlists on your home screen.

Since the release of iOS 14 on Wednesday, many Spotify users have called on the company to add home screen widgets to its iOS app. So far, Spotify has not released an app update with home screen widgets, but the third-party TuneTrack app aims to fix this issue.

Whether or not Spotify plans to add its own widget to iOS 14 remains to be seen, but the company doesn't have the best history when it comes to the rapid adoption of new iOS and Apple Watch features.

How to Add Spotify Widget to Your iOS 14 Home Screen

TuneTrack is a third-party application that integrates with Apple Music, Spotify, and Last.fm. The app is described as a way to easily track your music habits, create personalized playlists, etc. Over the past few days, however, TuneTrack has exploded in popularity due to its Spotify home screen widget for iOS 14 users.

TuneTrack is a free download from the App Store. Once the app is installed, you can open it and sign in with a Spotify account. Once you've signed in with your Spotify account, go back to your iOS 14 home screen, long press to enter jiggle mode, then tap the “+” in the top right corner.

Go through the list of apps you have installed with widget support until you find TuneTrack. From there, you can easily add the TuneTrack Spotify widget to your iOS 14 home screen and place it however you want. The Spotify Now Playing widget will update every five minutes, or you can force an update in the TuneTrack app in the Settings menu.

And finally, TuneTrack also offers an Apple Music Now Playing widget, so if you don't like the Apple default option, you can also try TuneTrack.

Another possibility is touse widgetsmith to completely customize your widgets on iOS.

Find other third-party apps with iOS 14 features like Home screen widgets, app clips, and more in our full roundup.