Spotify's car view feature that makes the music streaming service app look less distracting and easier to control will be retired after just three years of its launch.

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According to a Spotify moderator that answered a post on Spotify's community forum asking why the car view feature is missing explained that Spotify is retiring the feature as "an effort to make way for new innovations coming down the track." The retirement of the feature does not mean that Spotify is not trying to improve how listeners use their music streaming service while driving.

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The Spotify team is constantly working and developing ways to improve in-car user experiences, but at the moment, they are not working on a potential replacement for the car view feature.

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It is unclear whether the feature will only be retired only on Androids or all platforms, but the feature at the moment will still be available on iPhone. It will no longer work on Android devices since Spotify is retiring it to make way for new features on the Android version of the music streaming platform.

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Although there is no current replacement for the car view feature, users can utilize an alternative to the feature by using the hands-free mode via Google Assistant, which will also work with Google Maps to help users navigate while listening to music through Spotify. Users on iOS can control music hands-free from Spotify by saying "Play Paramore on Spotify" to Siri.

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