How to fix Spotify Friend activity is not Showing/Updating 2021: Windows 10/ Mac

Spotify friends feeds is a great new feature from the App, which lets you know what your friends are listening to. But many users are facing issue with the Spotify that Friend activity feed not working on Spotify after the recent update. Some users have completely disappeared from the feed list.  Friends last activity says 2 days ago even though they’re listening to music now.

Facebook feed not showing for all friends 2021/2022: windows 10

The issue seems to spread across different devices as the Spotify friend activity not working on Windows 10, Macbook , iPhone, iPad , Android phones and sometime it does update but there is delay in the Spotify friend activity.  

Seems like a lot of people are getting a this problem. Spotify has been having a lot of problems recently especially with people not being able to see lyrics and stuff.

Due to this users are not able to see songs list of the friends and Friend activity not working in Spotify consistently. Even Spotify is not showing friends list or sometimes show only few of the subscribed friends which is strange as the issue started randomly. 

How to fix Spotify Friend Feed not updating for users on desktop : Windows 10, Macbook , iPhone 2021/2022

Fix : Restart the device 

One easy solution to fix Spotify friends feed not working on desktop,   quit Spotify and restarted the computer which should easily fix it.

Fix : Update new settings of Spotify

It seems that the last update turned off sharing for some reason even the account settings and noticed Publish My Activity is turned off., please ask your friends to turn that ON. 

Spotify recently updated the "Share my listening activity on Spotify" setting so that it defaults to "off", giving users greater control over how their listening activity is shared with others on Spotify. 

To enable sharing your listening activity with your followers in the desktop app "Friend Activity Feed" sidebar:

Go to Settings --> Social --> Turn on "Share my listening activity on Spotify" in either the desktop app or mobile app (this is a global account setting so it only needs to be turned on once in either app to apply to your account)

To turn on the "Friend Activity Feed" sidebar in the desktop app:

Go to Settings --> Display --> Turn on "See what your friends are playing" OR go to the File Menu --> View --> Click on "Friend Activity"

Fix : Check Facebook account status

The Spotify Friend feed will not work if it is not in sync to the Facebook account using “Connect with Facebook”/ Social account you used. Check if you have not deactivate Facebook account, if so then the Friend activity feed will disappear.

Fix : Try unfollowing/re-following friends

Due to some issue your Spotify friends list may not be updating properly and to fix that try unfollowing all your friends and logout & quit the app. Open the app and after login follow friends again. 

Fix : Macbook -Clear cache and reinstall the app

If you are facing Spotify friends feed not working on the macbook please try below steps to fix the issue: 

1. Close spotify and uninstall the app

2. Go to Finder on the Mac

3. On your top toolbar click 'Go' and then 'Go to folder' on the drop down menu was unchecked, 

4. in 'Go to folder' type in ~/Library/Application Support/Spotify/.

5. select all the folders and move to trash

6. re-install spotify app. This should refresh the app setting and cached data and issue for friends feed should get fixed. 

Source: Shudtech