What is not normal is getting any higher drain outside of this when compared to playing any other music source on the Fenix 5+. My typical observation is that a 1 hour and 15 minutes of an indoor Strength Training activity without music consumes about 4-5% battery and with music (in my case Spotify) this goes up to 12-14%. Only way to stop is to uninstall Spotify app and start over. One of the main draws for buying this watch was to have the music during my activities. Now I can't even use it. Between Spotify and Garmin, please please PLEASE fix this issue. I have the most recent update of both Spotify and watch software and it's not going away. However, after I log into my Spotify Premium account on my phone (Google Pixel 7), and click the agree button, the Garmin connect app just hangs and so does my watch. My watch would remain in the screen prompting me to log into Spotify with Garmin Connect. However, when I logged into Spotify, Garmin Connect IQ store is listed as 1 of the apps oh man I had this same issue consistently with my Fenix 6 Pro. I was hoping the 7 would address the Bluetooth connectivity issues. What I dont understand is why cant Garmin seem to fix this issue. Bluetooth is a ubiquitous feature and I am sure they are buying the chip or board from a 3rd party. My 7 arrives today so I am keeping my fingers I click the "Download" icon to make the playlist available offline. The application waits for the desktop app to upload the files (if I close the desktop app, the Android app stops downloading). In the fenix 7 app: I open the Spotify app. The " Library " screen appears. I select " Add music & podcasts ". I select " Playlists ". eToNbEu. spotify worked fine until I tried to sync a new playlist, last time I tried to add a playlist 6+months ago. all music content via spotify. not public wifi, tried 2 different wifi sources, still just get 0% sync followed by sync failed. turned off/on every thing, synced, tried removing spotify and reinstalling all to no joy Joel 9 months ago I've noticed an issue where Spotify (1.6.0) won't fails to play a song or a podcast if I've just deleted a podcast (Fenix 7 firmware 11.28). For example, I'll be out on a run and I'll finish a podcast, delete it and then attempt to play another. Spotify fails to play the next podcast and presents me with the blank screen. Activities like streaming videos and playing online games can limit the bandwidth available to the watch and cause the sync to fail. If syncing Podcasts, allow artwork to display on the watch prior to starting the download. If the album artwork is not displayed on the watch, the Podcast download may not complete 1. Get everything updated Before you get started, you'll need to make sure everything is up to date. In fact, this part can take longer than anything else. Hook your compatible watch to the If so, try force closing the Garmin Connect app (Settings -> Apps -> Garmin Connect -> Force stop) and opening it again. Hey I think this might have been it! I'm not completely sure since I made some app permission changes on phone yesterday and didnt try if it worked after that. But this or that it works now!

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